By Amanda Bronstad | May 13, 2021
Bankruptcy trustees have brought in outside counsel to pursue allegations that Tom Girardi's estranged wife, Erika Jayne, who stars on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," might have received millions of dollars in fraudulent funds. Jayne has opposed one trustee's request to hire Beverly Hills attorney Ronald Richards, who is involved in a case against Girardi and has made 290 social media posts about her with "tabloid-style publicity" since Dec. 4.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 5, 2021
An April 30 supplemental brief was filed for 93 law firms and 167 lawyers objecting to the $2 billion settlement. Public Justice and Public Citizen filed their own supplemental briefs, focused on several issues, including the release of punitive damage claims. An approval hearing is set for May 19.
By Suzette Parmley | May 5, 2021
A half dozen lawsuits were filed simultaneously in federal court in three states April 30 against the manufacturers and marketers of Paraquat, a herbicide allegedly linked to developing Parkinson's disease.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 5, 2021
Distributors and drug makers are still working on a proposed $26 billion settlement with lead plaintiffs' attorneys in the opioid MDL. So why did the West Virginia plaintiffs still go to trial?
By Amanda Bronstad | April 30, 2021
The bench trial, which is expected to last 12 weeks, is before U.S. District Judge David Faber of the Southern District of West Virginia. Cabell County and the city of Huntington, both in West Virginia, brought the case against the three largest distributors of opiate pharmaceuticals: AmerisourceBergen Corp., McKesson and Cardinal Health.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 30, 2021
After a day of deliberations, a federal jury in Florida awarded compensatory and punitive damages to three plaintiffs in the first bellwether trial over the design of 3M's dual-ended combat earplugs.
By Zack Needles | April 29, 2021
The pandemic appears to be tempering public disdain toward two of the plaintiffs bar's most frequent targets: the health care and pharmaceutical industries. Now it's anyone's guess whether and how that might impact jury verdicts going forward, but there's no shortage of theories.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 29, 2021
Monsanto fired back Wednesday at what it called "inflammatory rhetoric" that it paid a Roundup plaintiff to bring an Eleventh Circuit appeal of a favorable ruling on federal preemption. In an opposition filed in court, its lawyer accused lead plaintiffs attorneys of considering a similar "high-low settlement" in another Roundup case now before the Ninth Circuit.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Edward E. Neiger and Troy Tatting | April 29, 2021
In this edition of their Mass Torts Update, Edward E. Neiger and Troy Tatting discuss the mass tort litigations involving Elmiron, Allergan, Boy Scouts, Purdue and the February 2021 Texas power outages.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 28, 2021
The maker of the Roundup weedkiller insists a "high-low settlement" with a plaintiff wasn't designed to create an appellate ruling.in its long-term favor
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