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14 Mar 2007, 1:42 pm
Ten, twenty years ago, insurance coverage litigation was predominately about broad issues and big ticket items, about the extent of insurance coverage across decades of policies for long term environmental pollution or for tens of thousands of asbestos related bodily... [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 9:19 pm
"[John] Sampson, the state Senate Democratic leader, quietly accepted a job last month as 'counsel' to Belluck & Fox, a politically connected Manhattan law firm that specializes in asbestos litigation and that claims to have won $220 million in judgments. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 9:02 pm
"A California appeals court has ruled that Waters & Kraus, one of the nation's leading asbestos litigation firms, did not engage in 'judicially sanctioned extortion,' as a Los Angeles trial judge contended last year. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 9:14 pm
William Roberts Wilson, who was done out of his share of asbestos fees by Dickie Scruggs and lost the ensuing litigation (federal prosecutors say) because Scruggs's agents had reached the judge, says the bribe money Scruggs paid should be considered... [read post]
9 Apr 2021, 7:02 am
Over the course of more than two decades representing clients in asbestos litigation, the plaintiff Governo Law Firm LLC (GLF) systematically... [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 7:46 am
But only after reading this week's updates: Reform, Legislation, Policy Asbestos litigation: the gift that keeps on giving [ALI-ABA] Not quite... [read post]
31 Aug 2006, 10:22 pm
September 11 litigation as an industry, courtesy of the asbestos/tobacco zillionaires from South Carolina:While other lawyers have resolved most or all of their cases -- at least 32 of the roughly 90 total lawsuits have settled -- Motley Rice has... [read post]
15 Apr 2009, 10:05 pm
Bill being pushed in Texas legislature would pull more defendants into asbestos litigation [Legal NewsLine, Texans for Lawsuit Reform (PDF)] Often assailed as fraught with hidden bias, testing of job applicants may be less biased than the alternatives [Ray... [read post]
16 Feb 2007, 4:22 am
A twisted asbestos litigation story from Texas. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 9:07 pm
" [Michael Fox] California as "litigation magnet"? [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 6:39 am
We've discussed Lester Brickman's important work on rampant fraud and misdiagnosis in asbestos, silicosis and fen-phen mass screenings, and now the Cardozo lawprof is out with an SSRN paper entitled "The Use of Litigation Screenings in Mass Torts: A Formula... [read post]
10 Jan 2016, 8:32 am
On January 8, the House of Representatives passed the Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 2016. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 6:21 am
“Peers in the House of Lords have voted for sufferers of asbestos-related disease to be exempt from reforms to no win, no fee litigation.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 15th March 2012 Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 8:38 am
Cleveland Plain Dealer profiles judge Harry Hanna, who cracked down on abusive asbestos litigation in his Cuyahoga County courtroom (more here and here): Brayton Purcell "chose to weave a seemingly endless web of deceit," customizing each of its claims to... [read post]
3 May 2009, 10:09 pm
Asbestos-litigation edition, with a special nod to the Global Tort blog, which has been providing much coverage of the subject: Controversy heats up in Scotland and London over Scottish legislation to open up compensation over pleural plaques [March, April posts,... [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 6:24 pm
HR 985, the Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 2017, has now passed the House and is pending in the Senate's Committee on the Judiciary. [read post]
28 Jul 2009, 7:37 am
The current abstract can be found here, and I invite comments from anyone with an interest in mass torts and asbestos litigation, including those who may not... [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 6:24 pm
HR 985, the Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 2017, has now passed the House and is pending in the Senate's Committee on the Judiciary. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 7:09 pm
Plaintiffs' mass tort lawyer Louis Robles was sentenced yesterday to the maximum 15 years for stealing settlement money from clients he represented in asbestos litigation. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 7:13 am
Those cases settled after trial but before judgment and the Forum believed that the documents contained valuable information that could aid other asbestos-related litigation. [read post]
