By Amanda Bronstad | October 28, 2022
Trials in Florida and Missouri begin next week over Monsanto's Roundup pesticide. Bayer, which owns Monsanto, has won the past five Roundup trials.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 27, 2022
In trial briefs filed ahead of a second phase of trial this month, lawyers for the city and county of San Francisco said they would need $8.1 billion to fix the opioid crisis, a figure Walgreens called "wildly excessive."
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Edward E. Neiger, Alexandra Robertson and David Stern | October 27, 2022
On Aug. 10, 2022, President Biden signed the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 which provides a powerful statutory cause of action for individuals who experienced harm as a result of exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina; the Mallinckrodt trustee is currently accepting and processing claims for damages from creditors who were injured by Mallinckrodt's opioids; and the bankruptcy court ultimately confirmed BSA's plan of reorganization on Sept. 8, 2022.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 25, 2022
U.S. District Judge William Orrick delayed the first bellwether trial over Juul's electronic cigarettes to Nov. 15 after finding a "mess of issues" with motions, depositions, exhibits and jury instructions.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 24, 2022
The lawsuits—filed in federal courts in California, New Yokr and Illinois—follow a study linking hair relaxers to uterine cancer. Attorney Danielle Mason said she planned to file two more lawsuits this week.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 21, 2022
The trial, in Los Angeles Superior Court, could provide the first verdict involving CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, in NCAA football players.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 20, 2022
Thursday's settlement with Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody also includes a 10-year partnership in which Walmart will dispense 672,000 kits of Naloxone to law enforcement and first responders in the state.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | October 20, 2022
Mark Lanier, founder of Houston's Lanier Law Firm, along with the COO of his firm and two English barristers have opened a firm in Manchester to handle the kind of litigation Lanier does in the U.S.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 20, 2022
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell on Tuesday refused to allow The Mandell Law Firm to transfer $1.87 million in attorney fees to the Girardi Keese trustee, citing contingencies he found "troubling."
By Ross Todd | October 18, 2022
A half-dozen years after the first cases seeking to hold drug companies, distributors and pharmacies liable for the costs of dealing with the opioid crisis, our colleague Amanda Bronstad gives a thorough rundown of the current state of play.
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