Settlement Agreement Included Presumptions about Economic Loss
The Deepwater Horizon incident prompted a number of legal actions, including multidistrict litigation surrounding private economic and property damage claims and medical claims stemming from the accident and oil spill. In 2012, BP reached a settlement with the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (PSC), which acts on behalf of individual and business plaintiffs in the multi-district litigation proceedings. BP initially joined with the plaintiffs...
In re: Biomet M2a Magnum Hip Implant Prods. Liab. Litig., NO. 3:12-MD-2391 (N.D. Ind. Apr. 18, 2013)
In this product liability case, Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee objected to Biomet’s reliance on keyword searching to initially reduce the volume of information it then subjected to predictive coding and sought to require Biomet to start again and to utilize only predictive coding, with plaintiffs’ input. The court concluded that Biomet’s efforts complied with its discovery obligations...
