Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Covers news, issues and trends related to mass torts, including the latest on litigation involving tobacco, Vioxx, asbestos, fen-phen and lead paint.
Author: Byron Stier, an associate professor of law at Southwestern Law School, and Howard Erichson, a law professor at Seton Hall Law School, edit the Mass Tort Litigation Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Tort Law • Product Liability Law • Trials & Litigation • Seton Hall University • Southwestern Law School • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Mass Tort Litigation Blog
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The Trouble with All-or-Nothing Settlements
My new paper, The Trouble with All-or-Nothing Settlements, is now available on SSRN. I presented it at last week's symposium in Kansas on "Aggregate Justice: Perspectives Ten Years After Amchem and Ortiz." The theme of…
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Argument in Shady Grove Orthopedic Today
The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in Shady Grove Orthopedic v. Allstate today. This case is about the intersection between two perennial favorite topics among civil procedure enthusiasts: class actions and Erie. Will…
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WLF Web Seminar on Off-Label Communication
On October 14, 2009, the Washington Legal Foundation hosted a web seminar, Communicating on Off-Label Treatments: Navigating the Treacherous Path Paved by Civil and Criminal Law Enforcement, with speakers Robert Salerno and Adam Hoffinger of…
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Vioxx Verdicts
I am collecting all the Vioxx verdicts - here is what I have so far. I welcome reader corrections and information about the current status of all of these cases - have they been appealed…
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Confidential Verdicts
I was thinking about Erichson's post on the Prempro punitive damages verdict that has been temporarily sealedl so as not to bias the jury in subsequent trials. This is a very curious aspect of the…
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South Carolina Settles Zyprexa Off-Label Marketing Case for $45 Million
Hat tip to the TortProf blog on this one. You can see their post here. ADL
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Sealed Verdict in Prempro Punitives Trial
Yesterday, a Philadelphia jury found for the plaintiff in the punitive damages phase of a trial involving Prempro, the hormone replacement therapy. How much Wyeth (now a unit of Pfizer) must pay Connie Barton, however,…
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Class action filed involving Puerto Rico explosion
On Friday morning, a huge explosion occurred at a Caribbean Petroleum Corp. fuel storage facility near San Juan, Puerto Rico. On Friday afternoon, the first class action was filed. Here's the WSJ Law Blog report…
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Passing of David I. Shapiro
Litigator David I. Shapiro, founding partner of the firm Dickstein Shapiro, has died. In a career that spanned many areas of litigation, Mr. Shapiro also was active in several prominent mass tort litigations, and came…
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Fall 2009 Newsletter for ABA Mass Torts Litigation Committee
The newsletter is now available and includes articles on Lone Pine orders, public nuisance law, federal preemption, sophisticated user and sophisticated intermediary defenses, the Fake Bad Scale Test, and document review. BGS