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...Unlike a class action, in which multiple plaintiffs join a single lawsuit, each plaintiff in a mass tort is treated as an individual....
...Carl Tobias, professor of law at the University of Richmond, said: “This is a very important case for plaintiffs in mass tort or MDL cases like J&J talc and 3M earplugs, because the effect is to protect...
...J&J has spent a lot of resources and now has to return to the talc MDL (a multi district litigation court process aimed at speeding up resolution of cases) with a super bright spotlight on the company and...
...In an MDL, a central clearinghouse is created and a judge overseeing the process allows for “bellwether” trials. These function as test cases that survey how much potential liability may exist....
...Lex thinks GM should spend spare capital on investment with better long-term prospects of returns....
...(FT) Payouts shake insurers The global insurance industry has a new enemy: US juries, which are handing out ever more generous awards to plaintiffs covering opioid overdoses to tainted talc....
...Bayer may have paid greater attention to Monsanto’s biotechnology innovation in the US, where GM crops are more accepted than in Europe, and failed to grasp the risk from the routine....
...The lawyer bringing the case, Steve Berman, also represents plaintiffs who have sued Fiat Chrysler, Mercedes and Chevrolet over similar claims, as well as Volkswagen, which has paid billions of dollars in...
...The lawyer bringing the case, Steve Berman, also represents plaintiffs who have sued Fiat Chrysler, Mercedes and Chevrolet over similar claims, as well as Volkswagen, which has faced a total of $24bn of...
...The plaintiffs in the litigation are people who decided against accepting the compensation GM offered through a compensation fund administered by Kenneth Feinberg, the US’s leading compensation attorney....
...The plaintiffs had argued that, because GM hid information about the faults — which had been suspected since 2001 — they should be allowed to sue the old, pre-bankruptcy company for deaths and injuries that...
...During a visit to the US in 2013, South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye was told by General Motors chief executive Dan Akerson that qualms over the subject could affect GM’s interest in further investment...
...“Plaintiffs . . . bring this action to obtain an order declaring that the sale cannot be used by GM to absolve it of any liability from plaintiffs’ defect claims,” the motion reads....
...GM accounted for about two-thirds of the total after a recall that sparked a Department of Justice criminal probe....
...A ruling that the company deliberately hid the problems’ seriousness could allow plaintiffs to sue the new, post-bankruptcy GM for their losses....
...could sue only the old, pre-bankruptcy GM....
...But MDL 2179 has a lot of legs in it yet. Email the Lex team in confidence at lex@ft.com...
...Our emphasis: 26 February, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JOINT STATEMENT BY BP AND THE PLAINTIFFS’ STEERING COMMITTEE New Orleans — BP and the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (PSC) confirmed that the U.S....
...For the plaintiffs’ team, it could be even higher....
...All lawsuits filed in federal courts from across the US against Merck have been consolidated in a process called multi-district litigation (MDL) to help streamline massive litigation proceedings....
...He said GM, the world's largest carmaker, had spent the last year "benchmarking" US manufacturing against that of nine other countries....
...here based upon a corporation's doing business in countries with less than stellar human rights records," Judge Sprizzo wrote in his judgment dismissing the suits (In re South African Apartheid Litigation MDL...
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