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Welcome to the Hotel California? Out-of-state plaintiffs should check out and leave, says new decision

USA - June 22 2015 Lured by the promise of huge jury verdicts and favorable laws, out-of-state asbestos plaintiffs and their counsel have flocked to California in…

Mesothelioma linked to therapeutic radiation

USA - March 4 2015 In the first study of its kind, a cohort analysis using data from the US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Database reports that men…

Is the MDL a “sophisticated misuser” of California law? California appellate court refuses to apply sophisticated user doctrine, rebukes feds

USA - October 31 2014 A California appellate court has refused to apply the sophisticated user doctrine to bar the claims of the family of a career U.S. Navy shipyard…

An enticement to double recovery?

USA - April 15 2014 Evidence of claims by plaintiffs to asbestos bankruptcy trusts is critical to the defense of any asbestos case. In California, for example, Volkswagen…

Richard R. Ames