Family of Man Crushed by Bulldozer at Atlanta Homeless Camp Sues the City July 21, 2025 By Charlotte Kramon ATLANTA (AP) — The family of a homeless man who died after a bulldozer crushed his tent during an encampment...
New Book Proposes Four-Prong Legal Strategy to Negate Nuclear Verdicts July 16, 2025 By Allen Laman Leaders at one of the largest national insurance defense firms believe they have identified the causes of nuclear verdicts—and developed...
American Bar Association Sues to Block Trump’s Attacks on Law Firms June 17, 2025 By Mike Scarcella The American Bar Association sued the Trump administration on Monday, seeking an order that would bar the White House from...
J&J Plunges After Plan to Settle Baby Powder Suits Fails April 1, 2025 By Steven Church, Jonathan Randles, Jef Feeley and Damian Garde Johnson & Johnson shares fell the most in five years after the company’s plan to settle thousands of talc-related lawsuits...
DOJ Reports $2.9B Recovered in False Claims Act Litigation January 16, 2025 Litigation under the False Claims Act generated more than $2.9 billion in settlement and judgments the last fiscal year, according...
US Chamber of Commerce: Nuclear Verdicts’ Amount, Frequency Continue to Increase June 10, 2024 By Chad Hemenway A recent report from The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) has found that nuclear verdicts of...
Class Action Settlements Flooded With Fraudulent Claims by Scammers May 3, 2024 By Diana Novak Jones Artsana, a maker of child car booster seats, last year agreed to settle claims that it had misled customers about...
Supreme Court Opinion on Maritime Law Solidifies Insurer’s Choice-of-Law Clause March 1, 2024 By Chad Hemenway A dispute between an insurer and a yacht owner went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court with a...
Boeing Sued by Alaska Air Passengers Over 737 Max 9 Door Blowout January 16, 2024 By Madlin Mekelburg Boeing Co. was sued by passengers on an Alaska Airlines Inc. flight that was forced to make an emergency landing...
Class Action Numbers Dip in 2023, but Settlements Still Costing Billions January 11, 2024 By Jim Sams Class-action and government enforcement lawsuits continued to take a toll on corporate defendants in 2023, with ten $1 billion settlements...