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Tort Reform Comes to Florida

On Friday, March 24, 2023, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law HB 837: Civil Remedies, bringing sweeping tort reform in the state of Florida. In a statement, the governor said, “Florida has been considered a judicial hellhole...more

3/30/2023 / Damages , Governor DeSantis , Insurance Claims , Insurance Industry , Joint and Several Liability , Negligence , Statute of Limitations , Tort Reform

A Component Part Supplier’s Duty to Warn Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Maritime Asbestos Decision

Under the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability § 5, Comment b (1998), the supplier of a product generally must warn about only those risks associated with the product itself, not those associated with the...more

4/30/2021 / Air and Liquid Systems Corp et al v Devries et al , Appeals , Asbestos , Asbestos Litigation , Duty to Warn , Manufacturers , Maritime Transport , SCOTUS , Toxic Exposure

Minnesota Supreme Court’s Abolishment of Century-Old Common-Law Prohibition Against Champerty Paves Way for Third-Party Litigation...

In a unanimous decision, the Minnesota Supreme Court abolished Minnesota’s common-law prohibition against champerty and maintenance, opening Minnesota to third-party litigation financing. Maslowski v. Prospect Funding...more

6/18/2020 / Champerty , Litigation Funding , MN Supreme Court , Third Party Funding

District of Kansas Confirms Plaintiffs Cannot Expand Scope of EpiPen MDL Litigation Via Motion to Transfer and Consolidate

A Kansas District Court recently reinforced that cases alleging claims outside the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) Transfer Order cannot be employed to broaden the scope of the MDL litigation. In reaching...more

5/8/2020 / Case Consolidation , Motion to Transfer , Multidistrict Litigation , Pharmaceutical Industry , Prescription Drugs , RICO , Unfair Competition

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