A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.

In August, Judge Mary M. Rowland dismissed nearly 200 plaintiffs’ cases in the ongoing In RE: Hair Relaxer Marketing, Sales ...

Mass torts have generated well over $50 billion ... ruled were too different from one another to be settled as a class action. That's the key distinguisher for mass torts: Every case gets filed ...

In 2023, digital disbursements in class action and mass tort settlements nearly doubled to 323 from the prior year, according to a second annual report published this year by Digital Disbursements ...

Johnson & Johnson is closing in on one of the largest settlements of mass-tort lawsuits in history. Its strategy is to divide ...

Constitutional Democracy and the Problem of the Class Action Lawsuit ‘Linda Mullenix’s Public Nuisance: The New Mass Tort Frontier is a must-read book for anyone interested in or practicing law in the ...