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Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.
November 15, 2021 | Daily Business Review
On Friday, a jury in Pensacola gave 3M its third defense win in the litigation over its combat earplugs. Then, on Monday, a Tallahassee jury awarded more than $13 million to the plaintiff.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
October 29, 2021 | Daily Business Review
Friday's defense verdict comes in the fifth bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation over 3M's dual-ended combat earplugs. 3M won a previous verdict, but other juries have awarded $7.1 million, $1.7 million and $8.2 million to plaintiffs.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
October 28, 2021 | Daily Business Review
Kimberly Branscome and Jay Bhimani, both partners in Dechert's Los Angeles office, filed an opening brief on Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, seeking to overturn U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers' sanctions against them in an earplug trial earlier this year.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
October 11, 2021 | Daily Business Review
Judges in multidistrict litigation over Zantac and 3M's combat earplugs have used administrative dockets and registries to manage thousands of claims, while technology is being used to select cases for bellwether trials.
By Amanda Bronstad
10 minute read
October 8, 2021 | Daily Business Review
Both sides had suggested the Southern District of Florida for consumer class actions over the July 14 recall of five sunscreen products.
By Amanda Bronstad
2 minute read
October 1, 2021 | Daily Business Review
Friday's verdict, which comes after two weeks of testimony in federal court in Pensacola, is the largest yet from bellwether trials in the multidistrict litigation over 3M's dual-ended combat earplugs.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
September 20, 2021 | Daily Business Review
"We just got to push on through because it has the potential to be such a large eight ball we may never get out from behind it if we don't keep trying the bellwether cases," said Timothy O'Brien, a partner at Levin Papantonio Rafferty Proctor Buchanan O'Brien Barr Mougey in Pensacola, Florida.
By Amanda Bronstad
10 minute read
September 1, 2021 | Daily Business Review
Judge M. Casey Rodgers, who is overseeing the 3M earplug multidistrict litigation in Pensacola, told lawyers it was "my responsibility as the presiding judge over this massive MDL to move things along." With COVID-19 cases surging in the area, she ordered all attorneys, parties and staff coming into her courtroom must show proof of vaccination or a negative test within the prior week.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
August 30, 2021 | Law.com
Recent recalls of consumer products like Peloton treadmills, sleep apnea machines and sunscreen haven't faced the same level of legal exposure. Plaintiffs lawyers who file such class actions say a lot depends on the details of the recall.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
August 20, 2021 | Law.com
At least two class actions have been filed against T-Mobile over its data breach announced this week. With at least 50 million customers affected, lawyers are predicting many more cases to come.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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