Plaintiff Bar Private Equity MSO Push, Geller Ruling, Colorado Lead-Gen Ban
Morgan & Morgan is exploring a $1B-plus PE minority stake via MSO structure, the highest-profile PE entry attempt in the plaintiff bar to d…
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PI Law This Week: GLP-1 MDL Clears 4,000 Cases, PFAS Bellwether in November, and NY Auto Reform Reshapes First-Year Filings
The GLP-1 receptor agonist MDL surpassed 4,000 cases in September as NAION discovery begins in earnest. PFAS personal injury bellwethers ar…
Diversity Removal Trends in California PI Cases: A Remand Playbook
Defense firms are removing more California personal-injury cases to federal court on diversity grounds, betting that a slower docket and a…
Plaintiff Bar's PE-MSO Wave, Geller Ruling, and $307M Verdict: Sept. 25 Wrap
Private equity and MSO investment dominated plaintiff PI news this week as Uplift Investors surpassed $670 million in dedicated fund capita…
PI Law This Week: Georgia's SB 68 Hits Its First Appellate Wall, Nuclear Verdicts Reach a $51M Average, and the Post-Montgomery Broker Docket Fills In
Georgia's sweeping 2025 tort reform faces its first significant appellate test, New York's 50-percent fault bar reshapes auto PI defense st…
Plaintiff Bar PI News Brief: GM Recall, SB 371, Nuclear Verdicts
NHTSA Campaign 26V539000, issued September 17, 2026, recalled 300,000-plus GM compact SUVs for rearview camera failures that directly eleva…
PI Law This Week: New York's Tort Overhaul Reshapes Auto Claims, J&J Talc Moves Toward Finalization, and Nuclear Verdicts Keep Climbing
New York's sweeping 2026 auto tort reform has now been in effect for nearly four months, and plaintiff firms are recalibrating their invent…
Meta Liability Trial, $604M Freight Verdict, and PE Capital Define the PI Bar This Fall
MDL-3047 entered its fourth week before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland on September 8, 2026, sixteen days after Meta's $17.1 billi…
PI Law This Week: North Carolina Bans Litigation Funding, Missouri Shortens the Clock, Uber MDL Sets October Trial
North Carolina became the first state to prohibit third-party litigation funding outright. Missouri's statute-of-limitations reform reached…
Plaintiff MDL Bellwether Verdicts, Meta $17B Settlement Define the PI Bar Week
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers closed the Meta AG advisory trial on day 8 with a $17 billion settlement on Aug. 26, leaving 3,208 personal-in…
Specialty Expert Availability in 2026: Which Fields Are Tight
Four expert disciplines central to California personal-injury damages are booking out further than they did two years ago. Here is where th…
PI Law This Week: A $19M State-Court Uber Verdict, the $603M Counterfeit Airbag Award, and FMCSA's CDL Sweep (Sept. 3)
A New Jersey jury returned what plaintiff counsel called the largest Uber verdict in any state court in the country. A Broward County jury…