In what has become a near legal certainty following plant explosions, train wrecks with chemical spills, and other large-scale accidents, plaintiffs often file suit and seek to certify personal injury ...

In The Legal's Products Liability, Mass Torts and Class Action supplement, read about federal COVID-19 tort immunities, dresser tip-over litigation and the response to advancing technology in auto ...

Underscoring the importance of pleading actual injury in a toxic tort class action, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit dismissed Oklahoma class claims that were based only on “reasonable ...

Notwithstanding a clear mandate in the legislative history of CPLR Article 9 (“mass exposure to environmental offences”), mass tort class actions have, typically, not been certified by the Appellate ...

In the hope of achieving better results for their clients in product liability cases than a class action might provide, an innovative Toronto law firm, Will Davidson LLP, is resorting to “mass tort” ...

(Reuters) - The headlines Wednesday in the mass tort litigation over Bayer’s Roundup weedkiller were all about the company’s decision to pay as much as $10.9 billion - a lot of money! - to settle ...

In The Legal's Products Liability, Mass Torts & Class Action supplement, read about economic loss after Dittman, 5-year-old Tincher and what to do when automobile safety features just don't work.