Amanda Bronstad

October 19, 2021 | Law.com

At least 11 class actions allege that SoClean's products use harmful levels of ozone gas to sanitize CPAP and other breathing devices, such as those recalled by Philips this year.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

October 15, 2021 | Law.com

Thursday's filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in North Carolina's Western District lists the top 30 plaintiffs firms with talc claims against Johnson & Johnson. Some called the filing a "fraudulent abuse of the bankruptcy system" and "corporate fraud."

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read

October 14, 2021 | The Recorder

A bankruptcy trustee wants to hire San Francisco plaintiffs' firm Girard Sharp to investigate whether Girardi Keese's litigation financing firms knew that founding partner Tom Girardi fraudulently transferred $25 million to his estranged wife of "Real Housewives" fame, Erika Girardi.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

October 13, 2021 | The Recorder

Attorneys general in 13 states have joined numerous objectors, including class action critic Ted Frank, in petitioning the Ninth Circuit to reverse an $80.6 million legal fee award in Apple's $310 million iPhone throttling settlement.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

October 13, 2021 | Law.com

Bayer is facing Roundup trials in California, the first of which ended in a defense verdict. And as a federal rules committee reviews possible amendments to multidistrict litigation, some judges are paving their own paths.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

October 11, 2021 | Law.com

Judges in multidistrict litigation over Zantac and 3M's combat earplugs have used administrative dockets and registries to manage thousands of claims, while technology is being used to select cases for bellwether trials.

By Amanda Bronstad

10 minute read

October 08, 2021 | Law.com

In orders Friday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered that lawsuits over a recall of CPAP and other breaching machines made by Philips be transferred to Pennsylvania, and sent cases over Johnson & Johnson's sunscreen to Florida.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

October 06, 2021 | Law.com

At least five lawsuits have been filed over the Sept. 25 derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana. And after a defense verdict in a Georgia talc trial, could jurors have a different view of science coming out of the pandemic?

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

October 05, 2021 | The Recorder

In a rare win for Monsanto, a Los Angeles jury found that its Roundup pesticide was not a "substantial factor" in causing a 10-year-old to suffer from an aggressive form of cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma. Tuesday's verdict comes in a bifurcated trial in which jurors had to decide causation in the first phase.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

October 04, 2021 | Law.com

Chicago partner Gary Elden brought the class action prior to his firm's 2015 merger with Shook, Hardy & Bacon, but the firm continued to pursue the case on behalf of a group of doctors suing a hospital system in Tennessee.

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read