The Isle of Jersey will be making lump sum mesothelioma payments as a result of citizen requests through an “e-petition,” as described in this 30 September 2...

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

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

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

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

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

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 recently succeeded  ...

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

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

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

Lots of efforts to project asbestos litigation involve efforts to understand and forecast filing patterns, and resolution rates.  On that topic, it’s worth r...

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

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 about the topic as par...

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

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 business law, tort law ...

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

After months of procedural wrangling and negotiations about settlement, the asbestos plaintiff’s bar has now attacked the Bestwall/Georgia-Pacific chapter 11...

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

As the litigation industry continues to expand, efforts continue to recruit plaintiffs also continue. One example involves a meeting of various former worker...

As explained by Laurie Kazan Allen at the Ban Asbestos Secretariat, the UK’s annual mesothelioma audit report is out. It provides interesting but depressing ...