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Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.
May 2, 2024 | Law.com
The inaugural Class Action Litigation Report, released on Thursday by Lex Machina, a division of LexisNexis, found class action filings steadily increased from 2014 to 2020, dipped 10% in 2021, then started rising again in 2022. Last year, class action filings jumped 4% to 9,705.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
May 1, 2024 | Law.com
Wednesday's proposed plan immediately got pushback from lawyers representing ovarian cancer victims: "This is not a done deal," Beasley Allen's Andy Birchfield told Law.com. "There is substantial opposition to this."
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 25, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
Lawyers touting a $500 million settlement over insulin pricing are back at the drawing board after a judge refused to certify their class.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 10, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
Andy Birchfield, of Beasley Allen, took the stand on Wednesday to fend off Johnson & Johnson's allegations that he breached his ethical duties by working with one of its former lawyers to come up with a proposed $19 billion talc settlement.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 1, 2024 | Daily Business Review
The second trial since the dismissal of Johnson & Johnson's talc bankruptcy last year opened on Monday, alleging its baby powder caused Patricia Matthey's ovarian cancer.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
March 27, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp, overseeing more than 50,000 talc lawsuits in multidistrict litigation, cited recent changes to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and new science since the first Daubert hearing in 2020.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
March 26, 2024 | Law.com
Johnson & Johnson's worldwide vice president of litigation, Erik Haas, and Jim Murdica, outside counsel at Barnes & Thornburg, testified on Monday that they were shocked to find out a former member of their team had been working with plaintiffs' lawyer Andy Birchfield as early as April 2023.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
March 25, 2024 | Law.com
Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, in the Southern District of Illinois, has issued a series of discovery orders after finding many of the 5,200 lawsuits over paraquat are "implausible on their face."
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
March 15, 2024 | Law.com
The proliferation of advertising on social media for Ozempic and related drugs will be a key part of the lawsuits against Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
February 26, 2024 | Law.com
The wide range of Roundup verdicts, from defense wins for Monsanto to a $2.25 billion award, could be due to what jurors hear at trial about the EPA and foreign regulatory agencies.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
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