PI Law This Week: Mass-Tort Dockets on the Move (Aug. 6)
Our week-of-August-6 recap tracks five mass-tort dockets, from AFFF and Covidien mesh bellwethers to the 3M earplug wind-down, Camp Lejeune…
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PI Law This Week: A Federal Funding-Disclosure Bill, Lejeune Tops $968M, and Depo-Provera Turns to Settlement
A federal litigation-funding disclosure bill lands in the Senate, Camp Lejeune payouts pass $801M as the offset fight sharpens, Depo-Prover…
PI Law This Week: The NEC Warning Wall, Depo-Provera's Global Deal, and Hair-Relaxer Discovery Reopens
Causation ran through every docket this week: the Seventh Circuit narrowed the NEC warning theory, Depo-Provera moved toward a global deal…
PI Law This Week: Talc's $5.5B Number, Camp Lejeune Past $900M, and the Dockets That Keep Growing
J&J floats a $5.5B talc resolution, Camp Lejeune payments cross $723M, and the Uber and social-media dockets keep swelling. What this month…
Freight Broker Liability Peaks at $604M as Amazon and MDL Verdicts Reshape PI Bar
Arnold & Itkin's $604M Dallas County verdict against C.H. Robinson on July 23 is the first major award under the post-Montgomery freight-br…
PI Law This Week: Uber's MDL Swells, a State Bans Funders, and Phantom-Damages Reform Spreads
The Uber assault MDL crosses 3,900 cases, North Carolina outlaws litigation funding outright, and the phantom-damages fight moves from cour…
PI Law This Week: A $198M Crosswalk Verdict, Lejeune's Payout Pace, and the Funding-Disclosure Fight
A nine-figure bystander verdict resurfaces in California, Camp Lejeune payouts near $708M, and two more rulings chip at the confidentiality…
PI Law This Week: J&J's $5.5B Talc Offer, a $604M Broker Verdict, and Georgia's Funding Rules Go Live
A $5.5 billion talc offer, a $604 million freight-broker verdict, and Georgia's live funding-disclosure rules define the last week of July…
Uplift's $670M Fund, $45M Lifespan Verdict, and NEC Bellwether Define PI Week
Uplift Investors closed a $670 million inaugural fund July 16 and sealed its fourth PI law-firm MSO deal July 22, confirming private equity…
PI Law This Week: Oregon's Death Cap Falls, Arizona Redraws the Defect Test, and the Lejeune Offset Orders
Two appellate decisions and a set of Camp Lejeune orders reshaped the week: Oregon struck a wrongful-death cap, Arizona split the product-d…
PI Law This Week: Talc's Bankruptcy Exit Closes, Lejeune Tops $907M, and Uber's Standing Test
A talc defendant runs out of bankruptcy runway, the Camp Lejeune math keeps climbing, the Uber docket lines up its most consequential trial…
PI Law This Week: A $644M Premises Verdict, Lejeune Mediation, and the Funding-Disclosure Wave
This week: a $644M Florida premises verdict, a $71M Maryland fire case, Camp Lejeune Track 1 mediation, and the spread of litigation-fundin…