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Alabama Legislature Enacts Causation in Fact Requirement

By Sean Wajert on May 5, 2015
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

There is likely no more fundamental notion in product liability law than the recognition that the defendant’s product must cause the injury complained…
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State Supreme Court Reinstates Defense Jury Verdict in Silica Litigation

By Sean Wajert on February 3, 2015
Posted in Articles, Toxic Tort

The Mississippi Supreme Court confirmed last week that the jury could have properly determined that plaintiff’s evidence failed to prove in a silica c…
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Summary Judgment Granted on Product Identification

By Sean Wajert on August 9, 2013
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

Sometimes simpler is better. In product liability litigation nothing is more basic, perhaps, than proof the plaintiff used defendant’s product. Last w…
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Federal Court Reaffirms Summary Judgment in NORM Case

By Sean Wajert on May 5, 2013
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

A federal court recently reaffirmed its prior ruling that a plaintiff’s expert failed to establish causation in a suit alleging increased risk of canc…
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DES Plaintiff’s Reach for Market Share Liability Rejected Again

By Sean Wajert on January 30, 2013
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

If asbestos is the grandfather of mass torts, the DES litigation may be the grandmother, with claims continuing today for harm allegedly caused by in …
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State Supreme Court Clarifies Causation Standard in Asbestos Case

By Sean Wajert on January 25, 2013
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

The unique and overwhelming features of the grandfather of all mass torts, asbestos, has created bad law in many jurisdictions, procedurally and subst…
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Fifth Circuit Affirms Exclusion of Plaintiff Causation Experts in Chemical Case

By Sean Wajert on June 22, 2012
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

The Fifth Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of most of a plaintiff’s personal injury claims against a chemical company, based on the conclusion …
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State Supreme Court Issues Significant Asbestos Ruling

By Sean Wajert on May 30, 2012
Posted in Articles, Toxic Tort

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week issued a potentially highly significant decision in the long-standing asbestos mass tort. See Betz v. Pneumo …
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Beverage Maker Not Liable for Alleged Failure to Warn

By Sean Wajert on November 8, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Consumer Products, Food and Beverage

The maker of a drink containing alcohol and caffeine was not liable to a woman allegedly injured when the driver of the motorcycle on which she was a …
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Amicus Urges Supreme Court to Reverse Causation Junk Science Decision

By Sean Wajert on October 20, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

DRI (the Defense Research Institute) last week submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision that thre…
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