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10 Jan 2016, 8:32 am by Patricia W. Moore
On January 8, the House of Representatives passed the Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 2016. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 9:02 pm by Walter Olson
"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]
16 Mar 2012, 6:21 am by tracey
“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]
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]
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]
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]
2 Jun 2017, 6:24 pm by Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
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]
18 Sep 2013, 6:29 pm by Schachtman
Bernstein has been disclosed as a GP expert witness in NYCAL since 2009, that he had testified as a defense expert for Union Carbide Corporation in asbestos litigation, or that he had been paid by, and spoken on behalf of, the Chrysotile Institute, the lobbying arm of the Quebec chrysotile mining industry. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 9:08 am
  Practitioners are well aware that given the “elephantine mass” of asbestos cases filed throughout the last half-century and around the nation, one may be hard-pressed to find jurors who have never had any connection with asbestos litigation, at least somewhere across their family tree. [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 5:00 am by Jon L. Gelman
Returning shoulders now reveal they have been exposed to asbestos and other toxic substances. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 7:13 am by CMS
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]
22 Apr 2010, 5:00 am by Sean Wajert
There are potentially significant risks, however, associated with mass tort litigation exposure, such as in asbestos, and thus buyers must proceed carefully. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 3:10 am by Matrix Legal  Information Team
The appeals concerned the scope of the insurers’ obligations to indemnify employers against their liabilities towards employees who have contracted mesothelioma following exposure to asbestos. [read post]
14 May 2009, 5:35 am
There has been a lot of talk in the mainstream media lately about a revival of sorts in asbestos litigation. [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 2:47 pm by Schachtman
  The Lancet article conveniently omits any reference to the remunerative and unremunerative work by these gentlemen for the American anti-asbestos litigation industry. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 9:44 am
Pa. 2012); In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation  (No. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 2:00 am by Simmons Hanly Conroy
It’s important to share Nellie’s story because it lies at the heart of the asbestos epidemic and the following decades of mesothelioma litigation. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 6:43 am by Schachtman
Folta’s asbestos exposure occurred at his Ferro workplace, from 1966 to 1970, during which time raw asbestos and many finished asbestos product suppliers provided warnings about the dangers of asbestos inhalation. [read post]