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Multidistrict Litigation
456 published works
Drug & Device Law
On MDL Choice Of Circuits
By Bexis
It’s hard to believe, but fully five months after COVID-19 was officially declared to be a “pandemic,” it’s still extraordinarily difficult to get oneself tested – particularly if one is…
Drug & Device Law
N.D. Fla.’s. Mixed Bag of Vaginal Mesh Rule 702 Rulings
It is an old legal adage that hard cases make bad law. One could also say that big cases make bad law, especially if by “big” we include Multi-District Litigation…
TortsProf Blog
Burch & Williams on Judicial Adjuncts in MDLs
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch & Margaret Williams have posted to SSRN Judicial Adjuncts in Multidistrict Litigation. The abstract provides:Peeking under the tent of our nation’s largest and often most impactful cases…
Insurance Law Hawaii
Judicial Panel Denies Nationwide Consolidation of COVID-19 Business Interruption Cases
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation denied motions to centralize pretrial proceedings in pending COVID-19 business interruption claims. In re COVID-19 Business interruption Protection Insurance Litigation, 2020 U.S.…
Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments
Somebody’s Watching Me: A Recent Smart-TV Lawsuit Seeks Insurance Coverage for Privacy Litigation
After the Fourth Circuit held that a commercial general liability (“CGL”) policy could cover a data incident in 2016, confusion arose as to whether CGL policies would continue to cover data breaches.…
Drug & Device Law
Talking MDL Post-Remand Blues
By Bexis
On many occasions, we’ve remarked that in modern prescription medical product liability litigation MDLs, the main objective of both plaintiffs and their counsel is to file as many lawsuits as…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Judicial Adjuncts in Multidistrict Litigation: from Special Masters to Claims Administrators
As our readers tend to know, MDLs prioritize efficiency. That is, after all, what the statute was designed to do--promote efficient resolution. But what's often unknown is the best way to…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
What is Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) and Will It Impact Virus Business Income Claims?
By Chip Merlin
A number of federal class action cases involving businesses shut down from the COVID-19 crisis have resulted in requests for federal cases to be consolidated to one court The Judicial…
Bench & Bar of Minnesota
The Case for MDL Reform: Addressing the flaws in a critical system
By Minnesota State Bar Association
<p><em>By Hannah R. Anderson and Andrew G. Jackson </em></p> <p>We won’t say <em>his</em> name, but one of your authors has a car that makes a horrible noise. The kind of noise…
Drug & Device Law
Like Day and Night
By Bexis
Now that federal court pelvic mesh cases no longer disappear into that black hole that was the multidistrict litigation, the difference seems almost like daytime after a long, dark night. …