by GROUP 2 | Jul 8, 2025 | News Alerts
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed it will not pursue formal revisions to the Biden-era rule banning most uses of chrysotile asbestos. The decision, disclosed in a July 8 filing with the Fifth Circuit, marks a departure from earlier proposals...
by GROUP 2 | Jul 8, 2025 | News
The New Jersey Appellate Division upheld a trial court decision awarding sanctions to our client, a civil engineering firm. Partial sanctions were awarded at the trial level after LCBF successfully argued that the plaintiff, who had sued our client in relation to site...
by GROUP 2 | Jun 21, 2025 | Client Advisories
The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Department, ruled that, where a plaintiff has made a prima facie case, defendants cannot defeat summary judgment by pointing to a contradictory statement made by the plaintiff in hospital records, where it...
by GROUP 2 | Jun 18, 2025 | News Alerts
A Massachusetts jury has awarded $8 million to Janice Paluzzi, finding that Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products substantially contributed to her mesothelioma. The verdict includes $5 million for past pain and suffering and $3 million for future pain and...
by GROUP 2 | Jun 14, 2025 | Client Advisories
The New Jersey Supreme Court defended the constitutionality of Daniel’s Law as applied to protect the home address of a police director from publication, even in a news story of legitimate public interest. Daniel’s Law, passed in honor of a judge’s son who was shot...