It was a routine little piece of litigation, the kind of lawsuit plaintiff attorneys file practically every time one public company buys another in this country. Most end with the lawyers getting a ...

In personal injury settlements, lawyers often overlook broad release language, especially with the New York City’s standard ...

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In Part I of his two-part series, Bob Genis reviews how the plaintiff s in negligence and malpractice cases can strategically require the defendant to appear at trial during the plaintiff’s direct ...

Even if they involve similar facts or injuries, no two medical malpractice cases are alike. Juries are laypeople who must consider testimony from medical experts and other witnesses and determine ...

In deciding whether a complaint served after expiration of the applicable statute of limitations period was time-barred, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania applied the reasoning from Gussom v. Teagle, ...

For the second time in nearly two years, attorneys for a Black teenage girl who was allegedly body-slammed and called an “animal” by a sheriff’s deputy working as a school resource officer at ...

Are plaintiffs who are suing Johnson & Johnson for its talc products ready to approve an $8.9 billion settlement to resolve their claims through a second bankruptcy procedure? Conflicting reports last ...

From Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain's opinion Tuesday in Gonzalez v. Bad Boy Entertainment (S.D.N.Y.): Plaintiff Alfredo P. Gonzalez, who appears pro se and is currently incarcerated in the Centennial ...

The first Valsartan-related (blood pressure medication) bellwether trial in the In Re Valsartan, Losartan and Irbesartan Products Liability Litigation, was set to begin last fall. However, New Jersey ...