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Have you ever wondered how lawyers manage to bankroll mass toxic tort cases, which are notoriously expensive to finance? Spoiler alert: it's not magic; it's money from private equity firms trading in ...

Recent surprise decisions have upended plaintiffs’ expectations on the toxic tort front. In Delaware, the top court is rehearing the trial court’s evidentiary ruling admitting plaintiffs’ experts’ ...

One of the major concerns of the plaintiffs' bar was that the Court of Appeals decision in Bostic seemed to require a showing of strict "but-for" causation—so that but for the exposure to a specific ...

On Friday, Aug. 15, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 328 (“SB 328”), which permits toxic tort lawsuits against companies that operate in Illinois even in situations where the ...

The Colorado Court of Appeals concluded that a trial court erred when it failed to appropriate liability between two defendant property owners for $409,000 in damages after toxic substances leaked ...

Business groups are sounding the alarm that a little-noticed piece of legislation passed at the end of the General Assembly’s spring session could expose companies based outside Illinois to a wave of ...

September 22, 2025 - Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, are one of the fastest-growing areas in mass toxic tort litigation. Dubbed "forever chemicals" due to their exceptionally slow ...

From Wednesday's decision by Judge Robert Numbers (E.D.N.C.) in Dew v. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co.: Plaintiffs, current and former residents of southeastern North Carolina, claim that Defendants ...