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Third Circuit affirms asbestos dismissals

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 1 2013

Readers know that too often the necessary administrative procedures set in place in a mass tort are enforced on a one-way basis, costing defendants

Bronchiolitis obliterans cases continue to pop up

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 24 2013

Researchers have reported bronchiolitis obliterans in populations ranging from the builders of boat hauls to Taiwanese women who used a natural

House Committee approves asbestos bill

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 22 2013

Quick note for our readers who follow asbestos mass tort issues: the House Judiciary Committee decided in a 17-14 party-line vote this week to reject

Massachusetts Appeals Court affirms judgment for turbine and valve manufacturers because of lack of evidence plaintiff’s mesothelioma was caused or contributed to by any asbestos in their products

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 23 2013

In Whiting v. CBS Corp., 83 Mass. App. Ct. 1113 (Mass. App. Ct. Feb. 14, 2013), plaintiff's husband died from malignant mesothelioma allegedly

Weekly Washington healthcare update

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 1 2013

Last week, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Boustany wrote a letter to HHS Secretary Sebelius inquiring about a voter registration

District Court issues favorable ruling for defendants attempting to eliminate class claims at the pleading stage

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 4 2013

On January 24, 2013, Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered an order in Baker v. Home

Scientific studies and current law surrounding the possible carcinogenic effects of cell phone radiation

  • Wilson Elser
  • -
  • Italy, USA
  • -
  • December 12 2012

While studies have generally concluded that current evidence does not support any causal link between cell phone radiofrequency emissions and brain tumors or other cancers, it is wise to heed the recommendations of the various studies to date and monitor developments in scientific research in preparation for possible future claims

Post election update

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 9 2012

The voters have now spoken in one of the most hotly contested and expensive races in American history, and the net effect of countervailing political winds was ironically to perpetuate the political status quo

FDA seeks dismissal of whistleblower retaliation claims

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 11 2012

In an ongoing dispute between scientists critical of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) medical-device review process, FDA has sought to dismiss claims of adverse employment action allegedly taken in retaliation for whistleblowing

Foreseeability in the evergreen state -- an unfortunate development

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 21 2012

The last time we blogged about an asbestos case it was to bring you the good news about O’Neil v. Crane Co., 266 P.3d 987 (Cal. 2012) from the California Supreme Court and our hope that it spelled the beginning of the end for Conte v. Wyeth, Inc., 85 Cal. Rptr.3d 299 (Cal. App. 2008

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