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Abandonment Issues in an MDL

By Sean Wajert on October 21, 2015
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

The defendant in a medical device MDL recently flagged an important and thorny issue that impacts many if not most MDL’s. And it has to do with bellwe…
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Yaz Court in NJ Issues Bellwether Trial CMO

By Sean Wajert on July 26, 2011
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

The court overseeing the coordinated litigation in New Jersey state court over the birth control pills Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella recently issued a case …
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Interesting Case Management Issue in Welding MDL

By Sean Wajert on March 31, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

We have posted about the welding fumes MDL before. Call it case management by option– as the court has worked through the bellwether trials, it is in…
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Dismissal of FEMA Trailer MDL Bellwether Plaintiff Affirmed

By Sean Wajert on January 3, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

With the recognition by many courts of the inappropriateness of the use of the class action device for personal injury claims, the use of other method…
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MDL Court Rejects Consolidation of Bellwether Trials

By Sean Wajert on January 6, 2010
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Drug and Device

Readers of MassTortDefense know how significant the earliest few trials in any mass tort can be, influencing later trials and shaping settlement strat…
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Update on FEMA Trailer MDL

By Sean Wajert on July 13, 2009
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

A federal judge has decided an that an advisory jury can hear evidence on claims against the U.S. government in bellwether trials in the MDL concernin…
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Ruling on Contractors’ Motion to Dismiss in FEMA Trailer MDL

By Sean Wajert on June 23, 2009
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

The federal judge presiding over the MDL involving litigation claiming trailers issued after Hurricane Katrina allegedly exposed residents to formalde…
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FEMA Trailer MDL Selects First Bellwether Trial

By Sean Wajert on April 10, 2009
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Medical Monitoring, Toxic Tort

Judge Engelhardt of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, overseeing the MDL relating to the alleged formaldehyde contaminati…
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MDL Court Holds To Pretrial Deadlines For Next Bellwether Case In Welding Fumes

By Sean Wajert on July 11, 2008
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

The MDL court in the In re Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation, MDL-1535 (N.D. Ohio) recently issued an interesting Order about mediation. Not …
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Bellwether Trials Proposed in Aredia MDL

By Sean Wajert on May 25, 2008
Posted in Drug and Device

The MDL The parties in the MDL concerning the bone cancer drugs, Aredia and Zometa, have proposed 10 bellwether cases for the first round of trials. T…
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