Toxics Defense
"Commentary, news and analysis of cases involving the defense of toxic torts claims from a Northern California attorney."
Author: Barbara Adams is a California lawyer.
Blawg Related Categories: Appellate Practice • Environmental Law • Law Practice Management • Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • Trials & Litigation
Recent Posts from Toxics Defense
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Verdict Against Plant Insulation for Three Plaintiffs
In December, a jury found against Plant Insulation in a San Francisco trial that involved three different decedents. The families of James Harris, William Hearn and George Wetch were awarded verdicts totaling $4.3 million dollars.…
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Nanotubes - the new Asbestos?
I'm not going to try and describe what nanotubes are, aside from saying that they are very thin (1/50,000th the width of a human hair) man made [usually] carbon based tubes (fullerene "buckyballs" is another…
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California Adopts Sophisticated User Defense
In Johnson v. American Standard ( California Supreme Court Case No. S139184 (4/3/08)) the California Supreme Court found the perfect case in which to finally adopt the "sophisticated user defense", something that the U.S. District…
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LA Superior Court General Order Overturned
Los Angeles Superior Court has, for many years, had a General Order applicable in asbestos cases designed to avoid the need for defendants to bring full motions for summary judgment (and for the Court to…
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$10.9 Million Asbestos Verdict
On December 7th, a jury in Los Angeles found in favor of Plaintiff Mr. Pelleys in the amount of $10.9 million, for injuries the jury found were caused, in part, by defendant John Crane company's…
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Silica Case Resolved
Plaintiff’s attorneys have been seeking to make Northern California the new seat of silica litigation since 2004. This week, the case that was scheduled to be the first to go to trial resolved as to…
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California Complex Litigation Judge Censured
The following concerns Judge Freedman, who is the Complex Litigation Judge for Alameda Superior Court, supervising all of the asbestos and silica cases: (06-26) 12:34 PDT OAKLAND -- A state judicial agency censured an Alameda…
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Another Defense Verdict in San Francisco
After two days of jury deliberation, counsel for Advocate Mines today handed the Brayton Purcell offices a defeat in a wrongful death mesothelioma case. The plaintiff, Mr. Shelton, who died at 87 years of age,…
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Tobacco Verdict Redux
Plaintiffs' attorney Madeline Chaber has now tried the same case on the same set of facts for the same plaintiff against the same defendant -- and gotten much the same verdict. On March 20, 2000,…
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Dr. Ray Harron's Texas License Not Renewed
Dr. Ray Harron first appeared on the national stage in 2005. Texas defense attorneys had noticed that many (if not most) of the 10,000 plaintiffs with silicosis cases pending in the M.D.L. had also filed…