Meanings of mass tort in anglès

They said claims will likely be pursued collaboratively as mass tort actions.

It's true that some of its key elements have featured in previous mass tort deals.

AIG has also been building up "meaningful" cash reserves for potential mass tort claims, Lyons said.

Monday's trial, which was to include 17 plaintiffs, had been akin to so-called bellwether trials that are common in mass tort cases.

Bintz would probably take a third, throw a few crumbs at F. Clyde Hardin, then quickly move on to the next mass tort bonanza.

Claimants now understand that the process is adversarial, according to Byron Stier, a professor of mass tort litigation at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.

My firm specializes in class actions for mass torts.

Kohl's bill would multiply discovery disputes in mass torts and would eat up too much of judges' time.

A new mass torts paradigm?

Judges and court clerks had been complaining for years about the voluminous paperwork produced in discovery, particularly in mass torts.

Scientific panels have been set up in previous mass torts but generally not as part of a settlement process, legal experts said.

In 115 of the biggest mass torts over the past 20 years, judges sealed public health and safety information in about half of them.