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…
A federal district court judge granted The Sherwin-Williams Company’s motion to dismiss an environmental and toxic tort class action. Plaintiffs in Brad Lafferty, et al. v. The Sherwin-Williams Company, Case No. 1:17-cv-06321 (D.N.J. Aug. 21, 2018)…
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the District Court’s award of summary judgment in favor of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (“Novartis”) in the pharmaceutical products liability case, Luttrell v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., No. 12-35893, 555 F. App’x 710 (9th…
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation’s Daubert motion and so excluded plaintiff’s causation expert witnesses and then granted summary judgment in favor of Novartis in Perkins v. Novartis…