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By Amanda Bronstad | September 27, 2021
Monday's settlement, one of the largest environmental tort agreements in California, comes as Southern California Gas and its parent company, Sempra, faced trial in the litigation, which alleges the leak at the Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility in Los Angeles caused medical problems and property damages for businesses and residents.
By Amanda Bronstad | September 22, 2021
COVID-19 case counts notwithstanding, mass tort trials have resumed in cases involving talcum powder, Risperdal, hernia mesh and earplugs. Judges in multidistrict litigation are paying attention to diversity on leadership committees -- and how its members get compensated
By Amanda Bronstad | September 21, 2021
The opioid case is one of several mass torts returning to the courtroom for bellwether trials, despite rising COVID-19 cases in most of the country. In the opioid litigation, two other bench trials are pending in California state court and federal court in West Virginia
By Amanda Bronstad | September 21, 2021
Lawyers for two Ohio counties filed a Sept. 21 bench brief asking a federal judge to exclude 39 unvaccinated jurors from an Oct. 4 trial that seeks to hold several pharmacies accountable for the opioid crisis. "A significant number of potential jurors indicated on their questionnaires that they would not feel comfortable or safe serving on a jury with unvaccinated individuals," they wrote.
By Amanda Bronstad | September 20, 2021
Despite continued COVID-19 case surges, juries are hearing bellwether trials across the country in mass torts involving Bard's hernia mesh, 3M's combat earplugs, opioids and Johnson & Johnson's baby powder and Risperdal.
By Amanda Bronstad | September 20, 2021
"There are some plaintiffs counsel who believe that having bellwether trials is a source of leverage to push defendants toward settlement, and, if they're not happening, that leverage is diminished," John Beisner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York.
By Amanda Bronstad | September 20, 2021
"We just got to push on through because it has the potential to be such a large eight ball we may never get out from behind it if we don't keep trying the bellwether cases," said Timothy O'Brien, a partner at Levin Papantonio Rafferty Proctor Buchanan O'Brien Barr Mougey in Pensacola, Florida.
By Ellen Bardash | September 15, 2021
Attorneys for abused scouts estimate the final settlement amount could by the end of the year double what's been agreed to so far.
By Amanda Bronstad | September 15, 2021
Johnson & Johnson began trials in two states against lawyers claiming its talcum powder caused their clients to get ovarian cancer
By Jane Wester | September 10, 2021
The settlement comes after Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Jerry Garguilo appointed a special master to report on alleged discovery failures by Endo and its attorneys at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.
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