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28 Nov 2013, 1:41 pm by SJM
The Claimant’s application for relief from sanctions was heard about 6 weeks later and involved the vacation of a hearing involving victims of asbestos exposure. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 9:21 pm
It confirms that one of the "bodies buried" that Balducci told federal agents about relates to the Luckey/Wilson asbestos fee matter, which was eventually split into two legal proceedings, both hard-fought, with Luckey faring better than Wilson in the legal battle against Scruggs. [read post]
8 May 2009, 5:01 am
., 527 U.S. 815 (1999), the decision rejecting a Rule 23(b)(1)(B) limited fund settlement class action in the asbestos mass tort litigation. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 2:46 pm
  PLAC has briefed expert issues involving benzene in New York, Doritos in Pennsylvania, and asbestos in a lot of places. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 9:43 am by Bexis
  PLAC's been in the thick of that fight - in the Supreme Court asbestos cases that turned the tide against class-action-based litigation abuse, and in just about every court of appeals case that's followed, whether the product is medical devices . . . [read post]
23 Sep 2023, 11:26 am by Jon L. Gelman
It is a debate that mirrors such exposures as asbestos, tobacco, opioid use, and artificial sweeteners. [read post]
19 Jun 2022, 4:44 pm by admin
The confusion of the two concepts has led to courts’ generally over-endorsing the black box of clinical judgment in health effects litigation. [read post]
11 Nov 2018, 4:03 pm by Wolfgang Demino
While all of the defendants in the three cases received partial relief by having their loan balances reduced on appeal, the bigger gift was bestowed to the NCSLT student loan litigation machine.Justice Brown graced it with a published opinion that freed TSI from the taint of the CPFB’s enforcement action (and resultant consent order) by overruling all objections to their affidavit and exhibits, finding TSI’s employees competent to lay a predicate for third-party business records… [read post]
20 Nov 2010, 4:30 pm by Stewart Baker
It’s asbestos litigation for the Internet age. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 2:18 pm by Michael S. Levine
LITIGATION DEVELOPMENTS The critical court decisions of 2016 departed from established precedent or forged new ground, interpreted traditional and new policies, and, overall, gave policyholders much to be thankful for as they embark on 2017. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 8:53 am by Kevin LaCroix
  Background As detailed here, in 2002, shareholders had filed a securities class action lawsuit against Halliburton and certain of its directors and officers, alleging that the company has misrepresented certain aspects of its financial condition, including the company’s exposure to potential liability from asbestos litigation and the company’s expected revenue from certain construction contracts. [read post]
1 Oct 2019, 2:30 pm by Deborah Hensler
Windsor[4] explicitly recognized the procedure’s legitimacy, even while striking down a settlement between future asbestos injury claimants and a consortium of asbestos manufacturers. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 1:11 pm by Mike Aylward
  Over time, thousands of asbestos suits were brought against Fuller-Austin that were defended by its primary insurers. [read post]
19 Jul 2022, 6:14 am by admin
Soskolne, was, however, an active, partisan expert witness for plaintiffs’ counsel in diacetyl litigation.[3] In an asbestos case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Rost v. [read post]
13 Nov 2023, 6:43 am by Daniel G. Aaron
And of those five restrictions, the asbestos ban was invalidated by the U.S. [read post]
24 Mar 2012, 7:00 am
  Last month, Todd Sullivan's Trade Secrets Blog wrote a post about a Texas case where a court granted a TRO to prevent a law firm's former office manager from “teaching” a competitor how to do asbestos litigation in return for an agreement to split the proceeds 50-50. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 3:39 am by Russ Bensing
Asbestos litigation in America so far has involved 6,000 defendants and 100 times that many claimants; the total cost is estimated to reach $200 billion. [read post]
24 Dec 2015, 4:00 am by Simon Lewis
One of the most advanced expert systems created to address a legal problem is called SAL which stands for System for Asbestos Litigation. [read post]