Another mass tort to watch in 2026 involves Bayer’s widely used weedkiller Roundup and allegations that its active ingredient, glyphosate, can cause cancer. Tens of thousands of plaintiffs have filed ...

Our Litigation and Legislative & Public Policy Groups provide an overview of the current landscape of federal and state efforts to protect businesses (beyond those at the epicenter of the pandemic ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

As the doctrine of comparative negligence emerged throughout the last few decades, the concept of apportionment of liability quickly became commonplace in tort law litigation. See Harvey S. Perlman ...

A Chapter 11 proceeding can allow a company facing mass tort liability to resolve claims efficiently and comprehensively, but it involves unique considerations and challenges. Chapter 11 allows for ...

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THE tort law deals with cases of civil wrong that one commits towards another for which remedy may be obtained, usually in the form of damages. For instance, if a doctor performs an operation by using ...