By Katheryn Tucker | February 7, 2018
A 65-page lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges one of the largest pain pill manufacturers in the country intentionally marketed drugs that created the opioid epidemic.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 6, 2018
A scramble to lead Equifax plaintiffs' class. Plus: a legendary and controversial lawyer dies
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | February 2, 2018
An attorney recently sanctioned for posting pictures of a Philadelphia courtroom on social media and using the hashtag #killinnazis has withdrawn from the Xarelto trial that is scheduled to begin next month.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | February 2, 2018
With an inventory of pharmaceutical cases that nearly doubled over the past 12 months, Philadelphia's pharma-related mass tort programs have reached record heights for the second year in a row.
By The Legal Intelligencer | January 30, 2018
In the Legal's Products Liability, Mass Torts & Class Action supplement, read about company-generated documents and emails, navigating choppy waters…
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Eric Rosenberg | January 30, 2018
Over the last seven years, the U.S. Supreme Court has rapidly and dramatically altered the landscape of personal jurisdiction law. Specifically, the court issued six opinions that overturned a lower court's exercise of personal jurisdiction, reinforced due process limitations on state assertions of jurisdiction, and narrowed the scope of constitutionally permissible general and specific personal jurisdiction.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Larry Coben | January 30, 2018
After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its decision in Tincher v. Omega Flex, the committee appointed by the court to prepare jury instructions issued “suggested standard products liability instructions” (published by the PBI) in an effort to provide guidance to the bench and bar.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Carl J. Schaerf and Lee C. Schmeer | January 29, 2018
Companies contracting with the federal government should be aware that significant changes are likely under the Trump administration in the manner in which the government solicits and funds contracts and the extent to which the government recognizes knowledge of risks related to the goods or services subject to such contracts. When faced with litigation involving government contracts, companies often employ the Government Contractor's Defense, which shields a contractor that has complied with reasonably precise government specifications from liability provided the contractor has warned the government of risks not otherwise known to the government.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Michael C. Zogby and Shane M. O'Connell | January 29, 2018
Courts have worked to construct rules for use before and during trial that ensure only true business records—that is, records of regularly conducted activity that carry an air of trustworthiness and reliability—are admitted into evidence, while avoiding admission of day-to-day communications and other documents that cannot be categorized as business records.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephen J. Finley | January 29, 2018
The last several years have brought significant developments to Pennsylvania products liability law, ranging from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decisions in Tincher v. Omega Flex and Lance v. Wyeth to rulings on the scope of evidence in the trial of a products liability case, to the application of the Pennsylvania Fair Share Act to a strict product liability claim.
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