888-681-1129Lately, I have seen many plaintiffs’ attorneys (and would-be plaintiffs’ attorneys) watch the explosion of mass tort litigation over the last decade from the sidelines and wonder how they can join the fray. Intrigued by complex legal and factual issues, the ability to...
Mass Torts
Roundup Lawsuit Update on Third Bellwether Trial
Our new Roundup lawsuit update highlights a decision in the third bellwether trial in the Roundup multidistrict litigation. A 12-person jury in Philadelphia unanimously awarded the plaintiff a staggering $2.25 billion, finding that John McKivison’s non-Hodgkin’s...
CA Appeals Court Issues Gilead Lawsuit Decision
On January 9, 2024, the State of California Court of Appeals ruled in part against Gilead in its motion for summary adjudication by allowing plaintiffs’ claim for ordinary negligence against the drug manufacturer to proceed. The earlier motion had been denied on all...
Three Mass Torts Trends to Watch in 2024
Looking at mass torts trends, 2023 was the year of the bankruptcy. Large corporations facing significant mass tort liabilities like Johnson & Johnson and 3M tried unsuccessfully to resolve their liabilities using the “Texas Two-Step.” For the uninitiated, the...
Four Best Practices for Collecting Client Intake Data in Mass Torts
In mass tort cases, client intake data that plaintiffs’ firms collect is needed to understand both the strength of each of their client’s claims and the strength of their overall portfolio of claims. However, because firms that litigate mass torts often have hundreds...
Four Ways Plaintiffs’ Firms Can Prevent Common Benefit Fund Fee Disputes
Common benefit funds (CBFs) ensure fairness and equity in the distribution of legal fees and expenses in aggregate and complex litigation, including class actions, mass torts, trust and securities, and multidistrict litigations (MDLs), where the litigation is...
Effective Employee Onboarding Practices
Employers must be careful not to confuse employee onboarding with employee orientation. Onboarding involves much more than helping new hires fill out their direct deposit forms, select insurance plans, and set up their retirement account contributions. Instead,...
Fifth Consecutive Win for Roundup Litigation Plaintiffs
On December 5, Roundup litigation plaintiffs won their fifth consecutive victory against Monsanto, manufacturer of the weed killer Roundup, and its parent company, Bayer AG. In the second case to go to trial in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, the jury found...
LTL Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Update for Talc Litigation
On Friday, July 28, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed the Chapter 11 case filed by Johnson & Johnson’s talc unit, LTL Management LLC, stating that the debtor did not meet the requirements...
Verus, LLC Acquires MFR Claims Processing Inc.
Verus is pleased to announce that we have completed the acquisition of MFR Claims Processing, Inc., a PA-based asbestos claims management company. MFR Claims Processing, Inc. started operations in February 2004 as the claims handling entity for the Shook &...