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By Amanda Bronstad | June 4, 2020
In its first substantive motion filed over COVID-19 lawsuits, Princess Cruise Line sought to dismiss 13 cases brought on behalf of more than 40 passengers suing for emotional distress. Princess Cruises says that U.S. Supreme Court case law prohibits the plaintiffs, none of whom contracted COVID-19, from suing for fear of exposure to the coronavirus.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 3, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create more potential MDLs, with new motions filed over ticket refunds and bank loans.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 2, 2020
In the first oral arguments over a Roundup verdict, a California appeals court raised numerous questions about Monsanto's defense of federal preemption but appeared hesitant to retain the $39 million in compensatory damages within the $289 million jury award.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 1, 2020
Lex Machina's 2020 Product Liability Litigation Report, released Monday, found the top corporate defendant hit with product liability cases was Johnson & Johnson, which totaled 70,924 lawsuits from 2015 to 2019, many from multidistrict litigation over its baby powder and blood thinner Xarelto.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 29, 2020
After the lawyers went into closed door discussions, a judge abruptly halted a hearing on Friday morning in which McDonald's employees at four restaurants in Chicago sought a preliminary injunction to fix alleged failures to protect them from COVID-19. In a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed on Thursday, a McDonald's lawyer said the case would "unleash a flood of similar litigation."
By Amanda Bronstad | May 28, 2020
Although a nationwide opioid settlement is not a done deal, "we are very close," said Mikal Watts, of Watts Guerra, whose firm represented more than a dozen counties in the Texas agreement.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 27, 2020
Bayer AG has reportedly reached an "oral agreement" to settle up to 85,000 lawsuits filed over Monsanto's Roundup.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 22, 2020
Johnson & Johnson attributed its decision this week to discontinue sales of talc-based baby powder to COVID-19 and declining demand, but lawyers and law professors point instead to an April 27 ruling allowing plaintiffs' experts to testify in trials.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 22, 2020
"I think it's an admission," said Robinson, who is gearing up for another trial talc trial in California state court, of Johnson & Johnson's decision to discontinue sales of its talcum powder-based baby powder. "The court is going to have to decide if it's an admission or not, but I think it's an admission. They just don't accidentally drop a product they've had for well over 100 years."
By Amanda Bronstad | May 18, 2020
Former South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Joan Toal insisted that depositions and hearings continue in the asbestos cases, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. "Discovery in these cases may be less convenient than the norm," she wrote. "Inconvenience, in comparison to delaying justice in not just these cases, but the ones that come after, is not a valid basis to stop discovery."
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