PI Law This Week: Talc Deadline, Camp Lejeune Offsets, and the English-Proficiency Purge
Talc's July 26 deadline, a Camp Lejeune offset win, a rideshare apparent-agency verdict, and an English-proficiency enforcement wave reshap…
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Litigation Finance in 2026: What Plaintiff Firms Are Paying for Capital
The money behind your case inventory got more expensive and more particular about what it will fund. Here is what plaintiff firms are actua…
Which PI-Adjacent Certifications Are Actually Growing in California
California's State Bar certifies specialists in ten fields — none of them personal injury. That gap explains why plaintiff attorneys are pu…
PI Law This Week: Uber Bellwethers, Meta Trial, Lejeune Backlog
The second half of 2026 opens with grinding Uber bellwethers, a looming Meta addiction trial, a Camp Lejeune backlog that dwarfs its payout…
Morgan & Morgan PE Stake, SCOTUS Trucking Ruling, and AI Shift: Plaintiff PI Wrap July 17
Morgan & Morgan's June 2026 JPMorgan mandate to explore a minority private-equity stake exceeding $1 billion set a valuation floor for the…
PI Law This Week: Tylenol MDL Roars Back, a Lejeune Offset Fight, and the Clearinghouse Purge
The Second Circuit revived the Tylenol MDL, the government pressed an aggressive Camp Lejeune benefit-offset theory, and the FMCSA Clearing…
PI Law This Week: A Tesla Amicus Push, Nine-Figure Premises Verdicts, and Uber's Ballot War
The biggest fights in PI law this week are in the appellate briefing and on the 2026 ballot: the Chamber briefs Tesla's Autopilot verdict a…
PI Law This Week: Talc Bellwether Posture, a Lancet Retraction, and a Florida Trucking Verdict
A midyear read on the term's biggest dockets, the numbers coming out of premises and trucking juries, and how the spring's reform statutes…
When the Carrier's Refusal Becomes the Case: Bad-Faith Leverage in 2026
An insurer just lost $21.5 million to its own policyholder over a $25,000 limit. The policy-limit demand, documented right, has become the…
Plaintiff Firm Private Equity Deals, Uber MDL Ruling, and AI Adoption: July 10, 2026
Morgan & Morgan's June 2026 engagement of JPMorgan to explore a $1B-plus PE minority stake via MSO structure leads a week that also produce…
PI Law at Midyear 2026: The Term That Rewrote the Rules
Two Supreme Court decisions pulling opposite directions, headline verdicts against Big Tech, and trucking awards insurers cannot control. A…
PI Law Midsummer Roundup: Reform Bites, Verdicts Balloon
Georgia's bifurcation and seatbelt reforms are live, California quietly narrowed survival damages, Texas tightened premises proof, and Q2 s…