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Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

Key Insurance Decisions, Trends, and Developments in 2024 and a Look Ahead to 2025

Introduction - As 2025 rapidly approaches, we look back at some of the key decisions, trends, and developments impacting the U.S. insurance industry in 2024 and provide a forecast of potential trends and developments for...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

PLAC MDL Task Force Comment Letter to MDL Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules

As an organization representing many target defendants in mass tort MDLs, including some of the largest MDLs on the federal docket, the Product Liability Advisory Council is uniquely positioned to serve as a voice for the...more

Carlton Fields

Tips and Strategies for Successful Mass Tort Management

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Mass tort litigation is unlike many other types of litigation – the cases are large, complex, and fast moving, and if you’re not organized and prepared early on, it can be hard to regain control. In this podcast, Carlton...more

Butler Snow LLP

Recent cases highlight strategies to defeat punitive damages even when compensatory liability may be difficult to avoid

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In many product liability, mass tort, and consumer cases the gravest—and probably least predictable—risk is a runaway punitive damages award. Unlike compensatory damages, which are tied to the plaintiff’s actual injuries,...more

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New Supreme Court Decision Offers Guidance for Mass Tort Preemption Defense

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After years of limited guidance, the Supreme Court has finally provided direction to lower courts on the issue of preemption when they delivered their opinion in Merck v. Albrecht. “Preemption” is a common defense used by...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Constitutional Limits on Specific Jurisdiction Over Foreign Defendants…Again

Since 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court has continued to roll back the expansion of personal jurisdiction by lower courts and has set more limitations on where a plaintiff can sue corporate defendants. We have watched this unfold...more

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