Issues arising from criminal prosecutions of former managers at an asbestos-cement plant (Everite) are up on appeal, as described in a...

Some "toxins" are long-lived, and so decisions made decades ago continue to ripple through current events. A "now in the news" example is...

The Isle of Jersey will be making lump sum mesothelioma payments as a result of citizen requests through an “e-petition,” as described in...

Back in the early 2000s, the Fifth District appellate court in Illinois was composed of 6 Democratic judges and 1 Republican. That...

Knowledge spreads at different paces. A July 2019 article from Clyde & Co. notes a January 2019 medical review article on prostate cancer...

Avoiding liability for fraudulent conveyances may have just become tougher. Why? Because this week, Kirkland & Ellis explicitly announced...

There’s never enough time to fully track asbestos developments in Europe. However, a December 2018 article from Clyde & Co, caught my eye...

At long last, plans are moving forward to establish a national mesothelioma patient registry in the United States. A key meeting of...

In the UK, an “overalls” case is a shorthand term for a “take home” case, as we refer to them in the US. Of greater note, a UK plaintiff...

Interesting times ahead as Imerys filed a chapter 11 petition in an effort to try to manage the mesothelioma and ovarian cancer claims...

Lawyers involved in mass tort litigation should be aware of this January 24, 2019 article (some would say puff piece) in Science...

My automated daily google search for “asbestos” recently pulled up a link to a 90 minute video, apparently from the Library of Congress....

Lots of efforts to project asbestos litigation involve efforts to understand and forecast filing patterns, and resolution rates.  On that...

Use of genomic testing continues to increase to seek to explain the reasons for and drivers of cancer. Some aspects of the newest broad...

It’s good to see more lawyers focused on genomics as related to causation in mass tort cases. A group from Goldberg Segalla just wrote...

Some scientific findings provide both opportunities and risks for litigants in mass tort cases. The point is highlighted by a new paper...

Over the years, I’ve had the good fortune to work as a trial lawyer on some very interesting issues in cases at intersections between...

For many years, astute observers  pointed out that “change” is the one constant in asbestos litigation. With that in mind, one might...

After months of procedural wrangling and negotiations about settlement, the asbestos plaintiff’s bar has now attacked the...

In September, 2016, multidisciplinary colleagues and I published and sold our second, in-depth and multidisciplinary analysis of the...