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A recent decision by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, [subscribers can access an enhanced version of this opinion: lexis.com | Lexis Advance ], may significantly lower the causation bar for plaintiffs in toxic tort cases. In the case C.W. & E...

By William A. Ruskin In an Opinion and Order, dated May 31, 2013, the Hon. Sandra J. Feuerstein granted summary judgment to a defendant pesticide manufacturer after determining that plaintiff''s expert failed to meet the reliability requirements...

My Daddy, who I lost the week before I started law school, always used to say "Jack of all trades, master of none." Maybe that's why my practice has been limited to work comp and that alone these last 30 plus years. Today's post...

By Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq., General Counsel, MEDVALL, LLC On December 4, 2015, the Florida Bar Board of Governors approved 33-9 the Code and Rules of Evidence Committee’s (CREC) recommendation to use the Frye standard for evaluating expert testimony...

Written by the attorneys of Littler's Class Action Practice Group, Employment Law Class Actions provides a comprehensive review of the strategic, procedural and legal issues that arise in such matters. The Second Edition includes an extensive expansion...

My Daddy, who I lost the week before I started law school, always used to say "Jack of all trades, master of none." Maybe that's why my practice has been limited to work comp and that alone these last 30 plus years. Today's post...

Well, my moment of reckoning finally arrived. We moved Sweet Caroline into Auburn University last weekend. Suddenly it all came back to me how quickly the time has passed since her Thankgiving Day birth in 1992. There were tears (all mine) and hugs all...

By David S. Evinger and Gerardo Alcazar of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi In their article appearing in the March/April 2010 issue of Coverage , “How Fast Can a Fire or Explosion Case Be Extinguished?: Recent Developments Involving NFPA...

By Ronald D. Kent, Partner, SNR Denton Butler v. First Acceptance Insurance Co., 652 F. Supp. 2d 1264 (N.D. Ga. 2009), concerns an insurer’s duty to settle. Butler received what his lawyer regarded as an inadequate response to a time-limit...

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ATLANTA - (Mealey's) The sole causation expert for the first bellwether plaintiff in the Seroquel multidistrict litigation failed to rule out other causes of weight gain and diabetes, a panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said April 7...

By William A. Ruskin In an Opinion and Order, dated May 31, 2013, the Hon. Sandra J. Feuerstein granted summary judgment to a defendant pesticide manufacturer after determining that plaintiff''s expert failed to meet the reliability requirements...

On March 27, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited opinion in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend (lexis.com subscribers may access Supreme Court briefs and the opinion for this case) , addressing the quality of proof needed to satisfy Federal Rule...

LOS ANGELES — (Mealey’s) A California appeals court panel on July 16 reinstated a $6.5 million Actos bladder cancer verdict, finding that the trial court erred in excluding the plaintiffs’ causation expert in a post-verdict ruling (...