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PFAS Consumer Cases: What Recent Dismissals Signal For Future Litigation

Despite the growth of PFAS-related lawsuits, standing remains a viable avenue to attack allegations through an early motion to dismiss.

United States Litigation

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Dechert

Does Insurance Cover California Employers For Intentional Acts Of Employee Violence?

For reasons unknown, your employee has attacked a customer with a weapon, causing grievous bodily injury.

United States Litigation

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Barnes & Thornburg LLP

A Practical Guide To Underwriting In Pre-Settlement Funding

Pre-settlement funding has become an increasingly relevant tool for plaintiffs navigating lengthy litigation timelines. Yet behind every funding decision lies a complex and disciplined process: underwriting.

United States Litigation

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Express Legal Funding

State Tort Liability For Nuclear Incidents?

Before last year, federal appellate courts consistently looked to federal safety regulations to define the standard of care in tort suits related to nuclear contamination or personal injury.

United States Litigation

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Beveridge & Diamond

Jefferson County, Ohio Jury Awards Largest Trucking Verdict In Ohio History

United States Transport

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

"Number Nine, Number Nine…": Newark Trial Team Obtains "No Cause" Verdict In Ninth Trial Of Year

United States Litigation

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Leveraging AI To Estimate Mass Tort Liability

United States Litigation

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Ankura Consulting Group LLC

5 Common Pre-Settlement Funding Myths (And The Truth Behind Them)

United States Litigation

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Express Legal Funding

Our Approach To Kaiser Medical Malpractice Claims

United States Litigation

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Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger

Illinois Federal Court Finds "Self-Inflicted Injury" Insufficient To Confer Article III Standing In Publicity Class Action Lawsuit

United States Litigation

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Duane Morris LLP

Every Victory Is A New Beginning: U.S. Supreme Court Agrees To Consider Freight Broker Liability

United States Litigation

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Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP

Individual Inquiries About Injury Preclude Class Certification

United States Litigation

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Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Broker Liability And Federal Preemption: U.S. Supreme Court To Consider The Road Ahead

United States Litigation

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Liskow & Lewis

The Cultural Value Of Natural Resources

United States Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

One Size Doesn't Fit All: Customizing Dispute Resolution For Commercial Contracts

United States Litigation

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JAMS

USCIS Announces Changes To The Naturalization Test

United States Immigration

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Green and Spiegel

Green And Spiegel Partner Ksenia Maiorova Secures Major Win In NIL Visa Lawsuit

United States Immigration

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Green and Spiegel

What Honeybees Have Taught Me About Dispute Resolution

United States Litigation

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JAMS

Federal Court Blocks Enforcement Of Texas Proxy Advisor Disclosure Law

United States Commercial

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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

Do I Need A Vaccine Injury Lawyer?

If you've suffered a vaccine injury, you're facing one of the most complex areas of federal law. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out over hundreds of millions in compensation...

United States Litigation

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Siri & Glimstad LLP

Byte-Size Question, Big Stakes: Ohio To Decide If OPLA Covers Apps

The law regarding whether apps are products subject to product liability statutes remains unsettled, but the determination of their status will have a significant impact on the scope of future claims against developers.

United States Litigation

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Dechert

GLP-1 MDL Requires Objective Testing To Proceed

The GLP-1 MDL order requiring objective diagnostic testing provides another precedent for early resolution of threshold expert and injury requirements in personal injury product liability MDLs.

United States Litigation

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Dechert

What The Click?: Third Circuit Finds No Standing For Class Complaining Of Website Operator Monitoring Clicks

On August 7, 2025, in an opinion authored by Circuit Judge D. Michael Fisher, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit...

United States Litigation

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Duane Morris LLP

Recent Appellate Opinion Offers Litigants Reason To Revisit The Application Of "Product Line" Successor Liability In Asbestos Cases

United States Litigation

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K&L Gates LLP

Automakers Potentially Liable For Stolen Cars

United States Consumer

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Stites & Harbison PLLC

Ohio Federal Court Interprets Indemnity Provision Broadly In Food Safety Dispute, Distinguishing Sixth Circuit's Narrow Reading In Nissan

United States Litigation

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Taft Stettinius & Hollister

Distilling The Legal Implications Of IARC's Hazard Classification For Automotive Gasoline

United States Litigation

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K&L Gates LLP

"Chop Wood, Carry Water": Newark Office Achieves Favorable, Unusual Defense Verdict In MVA Case

United States Litigation

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

California Federal Court Allows Massachusetts Chapter 93A Claim To Proceed To Discovery

United States Litigation

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Truck Insurance Exchange v. Federal Insurance Company

United States Litigation

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Workers Compensation Appeals Board

United States Litigation

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Pennsylvania Superior Court Overturns Nearly $1 Million Verdict Given Prejudicial Comments By Plaintiff's Counsel And Improper Jury Instructions On Causation

United States Litigation

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Duane Morris LLP

Florida Decision Impacts Employees' Abilities To Bypass Workers' Compensation System And Sue Employers For Mental Distress Tort Claims

United States Litigation

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Foley & Lardner

Truck Insurance Exchange v. Federal Insurance Company

Potential Concealment of Voluntary Assumption of Defense of Action Not Barred by Litigation Privilege Such that Primary Insurer Was Entitled to Maintain Action for Fraud Against Umbrella Insurer...

United States Litigation

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Workers Compensation Appeals Board

In Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, 111 Cal. App. 5th 568 (May 7, 2025), the California Fourth District Court of Appeal addressed whether...

United States Litigation

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Pennsylvania Superior Court Overturns Nearly $1 Million Verdict Given Prejudicial Comments By Plaintiff's Counsel And Improper Jury Instructions On Causation

On September 2, 2025, the Pennsylvania Superior Court overturned a plaintiff's nearly $1 million verdict due to prejudicial comments by the plaintiff's...

United States Litigation

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Duane Morris LLP

Florida Decision Impacts Employees' Abilities To Bypass Workers' Compensation System And Sue Employers For Mental Distress Tort Claims

A recent decision from the Fifth District Court of Appeal, Steak 'N Shake v. Spears,1 highlights the import of Florida's workers' compensation adjudicative framework and may serve...

United States Litigation

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Foley & Lardner

Accident Training Your Managers Need

United States Transport

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Saxton & Stump

Louisiana State Legislature 2025 Regular Session: Tort Reform - Acts & Vetoed Insurance Bill

New Orleans, La. (August 25, 2025) - In 2025, Louisiana lawmakers passed several tort reform acts with the aim of reducing frivolous lawsuits and addressing insurance issues.

United States Insurance

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Illinois Law Subjects Out-of-State Companies To General Personal Jurisdiction

Amended Illinois Senate Bill 328, which passed both chambers of the Illinois legislature on 1 June 2025, was officially signed into law by Governor Jay Robert "JB" Pritzker on 15 August 2025 as Public Act 104-0352.

United States Government

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K&L Gates LLP

4th Circuit Holds Exposure To Contaminants Is A Sufficient Injury In Some Medical Monitoring Cases

On Aug. 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit held that exposure to ethylene oxide (EtO) constitutes a concrete, present injury sufficient for Article III standing where costs...

United States Litigation

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Lowenstein Sandler

To Admit Negligence Or Not To Admit Negligence

Civil defense litigators are often faced with the dilemma of whether to admit negligence or contest liability on all issues. In cases where liability is relatively clear, defense counsel...

United States Litigation

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Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy

Nevada's 2025 Legislative Session: New Laws That Might Affect Your Claims

United States Litigation

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Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP

Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Proximate Cause In A Catastrophic Highway Accident – Werner Enterprises, Inc. v. Blake

United States Litigation

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Cowles & Thompson, PC

Settlement Agreements Can Be Held Nondischargeable Debts In Bankruptcy

United States Insolvency

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Cowles & Thompson, PC

Surveillance Case Tests Chapter 93A Standing And Unfairness Standards

United States Consumer

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Professional Services Exclusion Bars Coverage For Suit Stemming From Faulty DNA Analysis

United States Insurance

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Wiley Rein

Texas Struggles To Rein In 'Nuclear Verdicts' As Senate Bill 30 Fails

United States Litigation

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Phelps Dunbar LLP

Enjoy Your Motorcycle, But Be Safe

United States Litigation

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Gross Shuman P.C.

Legislation Extending Right To Pre-Death Pain And Suffering Approved By Legislative Committee

United States Litigation

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Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger

Indiana Appellate Court Rejects Known Loss And Deemer Clause Defenses For The Second Of Two Connected Class Actions Over Toxic Exposures

United States Insurance

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Wiley Rein

With The Exception Of Handling Concursus Proceedings, State Courts Should Be Deemed To Have Jurisdiction To Adjudicate All Limitation Of Liability Issues Under The Shipowner's Limitation Of Liability Act

United States Litigation

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Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP

LITIGATION UPDATE: Actual Responsibility And Substantial Factor Causation In The Wake Of Werner v. Blake: A Win For Commercial Drivers And Their Employers

United States Litigation

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Kane Russell Coleman Logan

U.S. Supreme Court To Consider Whether A State Malpractice Statute Applies In Federal Court

United States Litigation

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Duane Morris LLP

North Carolina Federal Court Dismisses Data Breach Class Action In Finding Bare Assertions Are Insufficient To Confer Standing

United States Litigation

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Duane Morris LLP

Texas Court Could Limit Risk By Defining Exposure Trigger For Long-Tail Claims

United States Insurance

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Phelps Dunbar LLP

CPSC Regulatory Updates (June 2025)

United States Consumer

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Crowell & Moring LLP

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The Class Action Weekly Wire – Episode 105: Key Developments In RICO Class Actions (Video)

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Duane Morris LLP

The Class Action Weekly Wire – Episode 94: Key Trends In Products Liability & Mass Torts Class Actions (Video)

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Duane Morris LLP

Printable Step-By-Step Guide On What To Do After A Car Accident (Video)

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Ward and Smith, P.A.

Printable Step-by-Step Guide To What To Do After A Car Accident (Video)

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Ward and Smith, P.A.

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