The 8th Circuit unanimously affirmed summary judgment for Firm client Novartis. This significant decision and the lower court decision received extensive national press coverage and would become a major body of Daubert case law. Plaintiffs’ petition…
11th Circuit affirmance in Rider v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals completes circuit court Daubert sweep in Parlodel® litigation.
The core business model for products-liability plaintiffs’ lawyers depends increasingly on first amassing an inventory of claimants via consolidated state and federal proceedings, and then threatening big verdicts in early trials involving cherry-picked claims in favorable…
In the late 1970s, chemical solvents found in an Albuquerque water supply well were traced to a site where GE and other companies manufactured equipment for U.S. defense agencies. New Mexico’s environmental regulators pressed the U.S.…
It was the largest single tort case in South Carolina history: Textile manufacturer Avondale Mills and its property insurer, Factory Mutual, sought costs of remediation and business interruption of over $500 million plus punitive damages from…
In 2001 and again in 2003, Firm client General Motors Corporation entered into formal agreements with the U.S. EPA to investigate and remediate PCB-contaminated land surrounding GM’s die-casting plant in Bedford, Indiana. The 2003 agreement required…
