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Liability Forecasting: Vital for Mass Tort Settlements

Liability Forecasting: Vital for Mass Tort Settlements

Liability forecasting plays an important role in mass tort settlements. One effect of the four-decades-long asbestos litigation is that defendants in mass tort cases often create large settlement trusts through which they compensate current and future claimants for...

Leveraging Data to Negotiate Stronger Mass Tort Settlements

Leveraging Data to Negotiate Stronger Mass Tort Settlements

As with the other cases they litigate, plaintiffs’ attorneys will negotiate mass tort settlements to secure maximum compensation for their injured clients. But mass tort cases, for a number of reasons, are more complex to litigate and settle than typical personal...

High Reliability Organizations and Law Firms

High Reliability Organizations and Law Firms

High Reliability Organizations (“HRO”) are institutions that operate in complex, hazardous environments, making few mistakes (i.e., medical errors, air traffic errors) over long periods of time. HROs have existed since the 1980s in the aircraft carrier, air traffic...

Plaintiffs File Transfer Motion in Bard PowerPort Litigation

Plaintiffs File Transfer Motion in Bard PowerPort Litigation

On May 24, 2023, plaintiffs filed a Motion to Transfer Actions with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) against C.R. Bard Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Becton Dickinson and Company, the designer, manufacturer and seller of implanted port...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dismisses LTL Management Case

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dismisses LTL Management Case

On Friday, July 28, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed the Chapter 11 case filed by Johnson & Johnson’s talc unit, LTL Management LLC, stating that the debtor did not meet the requirements...

Successful Claimant Engagement with Mass Tort Clients

Successful Claimant Engagement with Mass Tort Clients

We recently explained how mass tort law firms can fix their claimant engagement struggles by taking a relationship-based approach to the process. In that post, we suggested firms can avoid these struggles by regularly and proactively communicating with their clients...

3M Reaches 10.3B PFAS Contamination Settlement Agreement

3M Reaches 10.3B PFAS Contamination Settlement Agreement

  On June 22, chemical manufacturing giant 3M Co. reached a settlement agreement with attorneys representing 300 cities, towns and public water systems across the country over claims that the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances found in the company’s products...