Amanda Bronstad

May 05, 2021 | Law.com

Distributors and drug makers are still working on a proposed $26 billion settlement with lead plaintiffs' attorneys in the opioid MDL. So why did the West Virginia plaintiffs still go to trial?

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

April 30, 2021 | National Law Journal

The bench trial, which is expected to last 12 weeks, is before U.S. District Judge David Faber of the Southern District of West Virginia. Cabell County and the city of Huntington, both in West Virginia, brought the case against the three largest distributors of opiate pharmaceuticals: AmerisourceBergen Corp., McKesson and Cardinal Health.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

April 30, 2021 | Daily Business Review

After a day of deliberations, a federal jury in Florida awarded compensatory and punitive damages to three plaintiffs in the first bellwether trial over the design of 3M's dual-ended combat earplugs.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

April 29, 2021 | National Law Journal

Monsanto fired back Wednesday at what it called "inflammatory rhetoric" that it paid a Roundup plaintiff to bring an Eleventh Circuit appeal of a favorable ruling on federal preemption. In an opposition filed in court, its lawyer accused lead plaintiffs attorneys of considering a similar "high-low settlement" in another Roundup case now before the Ninth Circuit.

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

April 28, 2021 | Law.com

The maker of the Roundup weedkiller insists  a "high-low settlement" with a plaintiff wasn't designed to create an appellate ruling.in its long-term favor

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

April 28, 2021 | National Law Journal

One federal judge said the advent of remote hearings had some benefits, including allowing the panel to select judges from a larger pool of districts, not just those in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

April 28, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal

Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Ana Viscomi, who oversaw the 2018 trial, "did not assess the methodology, or the underlying data used by the two experts to form their opinions," according to Wednesday's opinion.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

April 27, 2021 | The Recorder

A trustee told a bankruptcy judge Tuesday that a downtown Los Angeles office building once housing Girardi Keese is being sold, while Girardi's home in Pasadena, "will soon be on the market within a few days."

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

April 23, 2021 | Law.com

Plaintiffs attorneys that got Roundup verdicts have accused parent company Bayer of paying its opponent in a Georgia case to appeal a favorable federal preemption ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Bayer, which has raised federal preemption arguments in other Roundup appeals in California, defended its actions as transparent and the settlement as appropriate.

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

April 21, 2021 | The Recorder

In a pair of complaints filed Tuesday in Girardi's Chapter 7 bankruptcy case, the former clients insisted the founding partner of Girardi Keese told them he had invested their settlement funds to be safe.

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read