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July 09, 2026
An Oregon appeals court's recent decision in James v. PacifiCorp illustrates that in litigation involving multiple wildfires, materially different causation theories, and evidence tied to particular fires and locations, a single undifferentiated damages model is vulnerable to attack, say Paige Van Oosten and Jason Kim at Hunton and Kevin Cahill at FTI Consulting.
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July 08, 2026
A California federal judge has declined to reopen an asbestos suit by an insurance exchange for the trucking industry against a group of reinsurers as the parties battle whether to remove a supposedly "side-switching" arbitrator, saying the arbitration is proceeding in New York.
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July 08, 2026
The Ninth Circuit has revived a Washington retiree's lawsuit accusing Whirlpool Corp. and an insurer of deceptively marketing a service plan as providing repairs or replacements for her dishwasher when the fine print allowed them to instead buy the appliance at a depreciated price, leaving her without enough money to replace it.
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July 08, 2026
A Los Angeles judge Wednesday ruled that Mark Zuckerberg must testify at an upcoming bellwether trial over claims his social media company harms young users' mental health after she previously compelled the Meta CEO to testify in February at the first bellwether trial.
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July 08, 2026
A landmark social media addiction verdict and a U.S. Supreme Court decision overruling state law claims against Monsanto over the labeling of alleged Roundup cancer risks are among Law360's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases from the first six months of 2026.
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