Federal Court Grants Daubert and SJ Motions to General Motors in PCB Lawsuit
- Precedent
- Environmental
- Products Liability & Toxic Torts
- October 1, 2006
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…
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…
Court Dismisses $4B Claim Brought by New Mexico Against General Electric
- Precedent
- Environmental
- Products Liability & Toxic Torts
- Natural Resource Damages
- January 27, 2015
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.…
The Zometa Cases
- Precedent
- Pharmaceutical & Medical Device
- Products Liability & Toxic Torts
- Class Action Defense
- January 27, 2015
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…
The Parlodel Trilogy
- Precedent
- Pharmaceutical & Medical Device
- Products Liability & Toxic Torts
- January 27, 2015
11th Circuit affirmance in Rider v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals completes circuit court Daubert sweep in Parlodel® litigation.
Key Early Victory for Pharma Defendant Became Major Body of Daubert Case Law
- Precedent
- Pharmaceutical & Medical Device
- February 1, 2015
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…
Tenth Circuit Unanimously Affirms Plaintiff’s Expert Testimony Not Scientifically Reliable
- Precedent
- Pharmaceutical & Medical Device
- February 14, 2015
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma entered summary judgment for Firm client Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp., holding that plaintiff’s proffered expert testimony, that the drug Parlodel caused her stroke, was not scientifically reliable…