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In February 2022, the Joe Biden administration allowed a $3.5 billion fund from the government of Afghanistan to be used by the victims of the 9/11 attacks. [8] However, in February 2023 U.S. District Judge George Daniels decided that the money could not be used for them, as it would recognize the Taliban as the rulers of the Afghanistan ...
A mass tort is a civil action involving numerous plaintiffs against one or a few defendants in state or federal court. The lawsuits arise out of the defendants causing numerous injuries through the same or similar act of harm (e.g. a prescription drug, a medical device, a defective product, a train accident, a plane crash, pollution, or a construction disaster).
The typical structured settlement arises and is structured as follows: An injured party (the claimant) comes to a negotiated settlement of a tort suit with the defendant (or its insurance carrier) pursuant to a settlement agreement that provides as consideration, in exchange for the claimant's securing the dismissal of the lawsuit, an agreement by the defendant (or, more commonly, its insurer ...
Ohio is ready to begin doling out millions of dollars in opioid settlement money to community and government organizations, an influx eagerly anticipated since the first sums were secured in 2021.
Sep. 17—Ohio has an settlement agreement with three large opioid distributors that totals around $808 million. The opioid public health crisis has cost thousands of lives, billions of dollars ...
Nearly $300 million of the settlement has been on hold because of the appeal even though a judge approved the deal in September. The holdout residents are urging the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop them from having to put up the huge sum to continue with their claims stemming from the February 2023 derailment and fire.
The settlement is the result of "extensive settlement negotiations over many months," said an attorney for two of the families. MSU releases settlement amounts with families of 3 students killed ...
On October 5, 2022, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) transferred [1] some 66 autism and ADHD lawsuits [2] to Senior District Judge Denise Cote in the Southern District of New York, thus consolidating all such acetominophen birth defect cases in a mass tort. [3] The case specifically concerns the lack of warning ...