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Have you ever wondered how lawyers manage to bankroll mass toxic tort cases, which are notoriously expensive to finance? Spoiler alert: it's not magic; it's money from private equity firms trading in ...

Recent surprise decisions have upended plaintiffs’ expectations on the toxic tort front. In Delaware, the top court is rehearing the trial court’s evidentiary ruling admitting plaintiffs’ experts’ ...

One of the major concerns of the plaintiffs' bar was that the Court of Appeals decision in Bostic seemed to require a showing of strict "but-for" causation—so that but for the exposure to a specific ...

"The central question on appeal is whether Georgia courts should apply the standard adopted by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in determining the admissibility of expert ...

Business groups are sounding the alarm that a little-noticed piece of legislation passed at the end of the General Assembly’s spring session could expose companies based outside Illinois to a wave of ...

From Wednesday's decision by Judge Robert Numbers (E.D.N.C.) in Dew v. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co.: Plaintiffs, current and former residents of southeastern North Carolina, claim that Defendants ...

September 22, 2025 - Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, are one of the fastest-growing areas in mass toxic tort litigation. Dubbed "forever chemicals" due to their exceptionally slow ...