Capital Partner, Mikal Watts, was featured on Law.com providing his take on managing thousands of clients with some of the Mass Torts we are helping our clients with.
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Watts Guerra Women in Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) Leadership
When a Defendant faces thousands of lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions for the same product or alleged negligent act, the Defendant will typically request that the Multidistrict Litigation Panel consolidate those cases into one Multidistrict Litigation Court (MDL). MDLs are used to manage discovery and sometimes even trials for lawsuits that involve drugs, defective products, negligent acts, and other claims that involve thousands of people whose allegations of harm involve the same basic actions by the Defendant.
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When MDL Judges Overreach: Opioid cases, without jurisdiction, held in judicial purgatory
When MDL Judges Overreach:
Opioid cases, without jurisdiction, held in judicial purgatory
From 1990 to 2017, about 218,000 deaths linked to overdoes of prescriptive opioids led to a surge of lawsuits.[1] With the proliferation of cases against opioid manufacturers, federal and state courts created multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) courts to handle this influx of actions, and tensions between state sovereignty and federalism concerns have arisen.
