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Liability Forecasting: Vital for Mass Tort Settlements

Liability Forecasting: Vital for Mass Tort Settlements

Liability forecasting plays an important role in mass tort settlements. One effect of the four-decades-long asbestos litigation is that defendants in mass tort cases often create large settlement trusts through which they compensate current and future claimants for...

Leveraging Data to Negotiate Stronger Mass Tort Settlements

Leveraging Data to Negotiate Stronger Mass Tort Settlements

As with the other cases they litigate, plaintiffs’ attorneys will enter mass tort settlement negotiations in a case determined to secure maximum compensation for their injured clients. But mass tort cases, for a number of reasons, are more complex to litigate and...

High Reliability Organizations and Law Firms

High Reliability Organizations and Law Firms

High Reliability Organizations (“HRO”) are institutions that operate in complex, hazardous environments, making few mistakes (i.e., medical errors, air traffic errors) over long periods of time. HROs have existed since the 1980s in the aircraft carrier, air traffic...

Successful Claimant Engagement with Mass Tort Clients

Successful Claimant Engagement with Mass Tort Clients

We recently explained how mass tort law firms can fix their claimant engagement struggles by taking a relationship-based approach to the process. In that post, we suggested firms can avoid these struggles by regularly and proactively communicating with their clients...

J&J’s LTL Management Bankruptcy and Talc Litigation Update

J&J’s LTL Management Bankruptcy and Talc Litigation Update

On September 19, 2022, oral argument was held before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia during which attorneys for talcum litigation injury victims urged the Court to allow their clients to pursue their claims against Johnson & Johnson maintaining...

Social Media Addiction Lawsuits Consolidation Update

Social Media Addiction Lawsuits Consolidation Update

On August 20, 2022, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to consolidate a number of social media addiction lawsuits filed by plaintiffs who have targeted the company, alleging they have...