Uber MDL Bellwether Settles as $604M Texas Broker Verdict Looms
The third Uber MDL 3084 bellwether settled before opening statements in October, leaving a mixed $8.5M/$5,000 scorecard for 5,000 pending c…
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Appellate decisions, verdicts, and notable settlements from California courts.
Third-Party Discovery in California PI Cases: Subpoenas, Objections, and Enforcement
Most of the record that decides a PI case sits with people who are not parties — hospitals, employers, carriers, and prior counsel. Califor…
Kuciemba v. Victory Woodworks: Take-Home Exposure and the Employer's Duty to Household Members
The California Supreme Court answered certified questions on whether an employer owes a duty to an employee's household and whether workers…
Air & Liquid Systems v. DeVries: The Bare-Metal Defense and Third-Party Parts
The Supreme Court's 2019 maritime ruling set a foreseeability-based duty to warn about hazards in parts added to a product. Its reasoning n…
Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court: Forum Strategy for Nonresident Mass Tort Plaintiffs
The Supreme Court's 2017 decision still shapes where multi-plaintiff drug and device cases can be filed. Here is what it held, what it left…
Depo-Provera MDL Settlement Registration Opens as Circuits Split on Uber
The Depo-Provera MDL moved into settlement registration covering roughly 80 percent of 6,775 plaintiffs, while Uber's nondelegable-duty rul…
Daubert Gatekeeping in 2026: How Circuit Courts Are Tightening Expert Causation Standards in PI Cases
Federal circuit courts have issued a series of Daubert decisions in 2025 and 2026 that are tightening the reliability threshold for expert…
Medical Monitoring Class Actions in 2026: Standing After FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and the New Exposure-Only Framework
The Supreme Court's 2024 standing ruling in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine did not address medical monitoring, but lower courts h…
Bandele v. Rasier-NY: Uber's Independent Contractor Defense Fails in New York's Second Department
The Appellate Division reversed summary judgment for Uber in a rear-end crash case, holding that whether the driver was an independent cont…
Wrongful-Death Standing in California: Who May Sue, When, and on What Theory
Standing is where more wrongful-death cases die than on the merits. California's statutory heir list is narrower than most intake sheets as…
The LTL Management Dismissals: What the Texas Two-Step's Failure Means for Mass Tort Plaintiffs
The Third Circuit's repeated dismissal of Johnson & Johnson's talc bankruptcy filings is one of the most consequential mass tort rulings of…
Baby Food MDL Daubert Ruling Reshapes Mass Tort Bellwether Strategy
Judge Corley's Oct. 15 order in MDL 3101 cut autism and ADHD causation claims after excluding five of six plaintiff experts, while IQ-loss…