By Amanda Bronstad | March 25, 2020
A federal judge has dismissed a legal malpractice lawsuit against six law firms in New Jersey and Texas accused of using invalid retainer agreements to charge excessive contingency fees for thousands of clients suing over transvaginal mesh devices. The firms included Nagel Rice and the Potts Law Firm.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 25, 2020
How are plaintiffs' firms dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak?
By Amanda Bronstad | March 19, 2020
The trial, originally scheduled for May 4, comes in a case brought by the parents of Maia Rodriguez, alleging their daughter was born in 2004 with heart defects due to her mother's use of Zofran during pregnancy. The trial would have been the first in more than 450 lawsuits filed against GlaxoSmithKline.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 18, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak has spawned lawsuits—and mass torts and class actions are no exception.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 17, 2020
Lawyers for plaintiff Edwin Hardeman, in a brief filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, defended the jury's award while challenging U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria's reduction of $75 million in punitive damages to $20 million.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 16, 2020
The lawsuit, brought on behalf of a Missouri couple who were passengers on the Grand Princess, alleges gross negligence over the cruise line's "lackadaisical approach" to ensuring the safety of its passengers of the ship, quarantined off the coast of California. The suit is the first to be filed by a firm other than Chalik & Chalik Injury Lawyers, which filed four similar cases last week.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 13, 2020
The suit, filed Thursday, alleges Chinese authorities "proverbially put their head in the sand" for their own economic self interest, sparking the global COVID-19 outbreak.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 11, 2020
Florida attorney Jason Chalik, whose firm, Chalik & Chalik Law Offices, was the first to sue a cruise ship company over the coronavirus, filed a second one on Tuesday. He said he was "swamped with inquiries."
By Amanda Bronstad | March 11, 2020
"This change is not warranted by the Supreme Court's decision in Bristol-Myers," wrote the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, reversing dismissal of a class action based on Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California. Wednesday's ruling comes one day after the D.C. Circuit dodged the same question in a similar case.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 11, 2020
Coronavirus halted this week's MDL conference at Duke Law, which is reeling from the sudden death of professor Francis McGovern.
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