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18 Jul 2014, 11:55 am
  In re Darvocet, Darvon & Propoxyphene Products Liability Litigation, 2012 WL 3842045, at *7-8 (E.D. [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 12:57 pm by Schachtman
Take for example, asbestosis, a diffuse interstitial lung disease caused by chronic, excessive inhalation of asbestos. [read post]
15 Jun 2014, 10:36 am by Schachtman
In In re Fibreboard Corp., 893 F. 2d 706, 711-12 (5th Cir. 1990), the court rejected a class action approach to litigating asbestos personal injury claims because risk could not substitute for findings of individual causation: “That procedure cannot focus upon such issues as individual causation, but ultimately must accept general causation as sufficient, contrary to Texas law. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 2:46 pm
  It’s a subject matter group, and those subjects are product liability and complex product-related litigation. [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 6:53 am
  Compounding matters, Lance also included gratuitous dictum suggesting that a post-sale duty to warn may exist in prescription drug cases, id. at 167-68 – despite that theory being a form of strict liability, which Pennsylvania doesn’t recognize at all in prescription medical product litigation. [read post]
4 Jan 2014, 9:47 am by Schachtman
Selikoff had a general practice clinic in Paterson, New Jersey, in the 1950s, when his practice and his litigation support efforts were noticed by the asbestos insulation workers’ union. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Call: 717-671-1901 [promotion for Commonwealth Foundation, a Pennsylvania free-market-oriented outfit] How litigation finance might remake the lawsuit landscape [Nora Freeman Engstrom via TortsProf] Tweet Tags: asbestos, Japan, product liability, Stella LiebeckLiability and torts roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 1:35 am by Kevin LaCroix
In their complaint, the plaintiffs allege that the company and certain of its directors and offices unstated the company’s exposure to asbestos liability and overestimated the benefits of the company’s merger with Dresser Industries. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 6:08 am by Schachtman
Now silicosis, you’re a dirty robber and a thief.Awww silicosis, dirty robber and a thief.Robbed me of my right to live and all you brought poor me was grief. [read post]
17 Aug 2013, 3:11 pm by Schachtman
 In re Rezulin Products Liability Litig., 309 F.Supp. 2d 531, 541 (S.D.N.Y. 2004). [read post]
1 Jun 2013, 7:39 pm by Sean Wajert
See In Re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (NO. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 5:00 am by Bexis
  If an MDL decision was favorable to the defendant only on, say, asbestos exposure product identification (the most common example by far), we have not included it.Caveat #4. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 1:01 pm by Bexis
  What we quarrel with is admitting asbestos-style rank hearsay for product identification purposes.In a busy week, one can expect pain pump litigation to contribute its share, and it did. [read post]
9 Mar 2013, 6:29 pm by Jon Gelman
Asbestos litigation was initiated in the 1970's for health conditions arising out of the exposure to asbestos products including asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 2:30 pm by Bexis
  Maya is an all-too-familiar litigation tourism situation. [read post]
22 Feb 2013, 5:34 am by Bexis
Oct. 20, 2009), which as we discussedat the time, adopted just about all the pro-preemption holdings in In re Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Leads Products Liability Litigation, 592 F. [read post]