3M Combat Arms Earplug Lawsuit: Where the $6B Settlement Stands
The largest mass tort in U.S. history began with a whistleblower's fraud suit and a failed subsidiary bankruptcy. Over half the $6 billion has now been paid.
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Causation Disputes
When the insurer concedes you are injured but denies the accident caused it. How timing, mechanism and medical opinion establish the link.
42 guides spanning 12 claim types: Truck Accidents Settlement Values Insurance Car Accidents Dog Bites Wrongful Death Premises Liability Mass Tort Claims Claims Process Medical Malpractice Wildfire Claims Police Misconduct
Guides tagged Causation Disputes
Accidental Death Claims: What Counts as an 'Accident'
AD&D insurance only pays for an accident — and insurers have built an entire denial practice around arguing a death doesn't qualify as one.
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Suing an AI Chatbot Company: What Courts Have Ruled So Far
A federal judge ruled a chatbot's output isn't clearly protected speech, letting product liability and wrongful death claims proceed. One case already settled.
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Bard PowerPort Lawsuit: A Split Verdict, Then Round Two
The first bellwether ended in a defense win on warnings and a hung jury on design. The second, testing fracture claims, started August 18, 2026.
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East Palestine Derailment: What the $600M Settlement Pays
Lawyers projected up to $25,000 per person for personal injury. Actual checks averaged about $12,400. Objectors who fought it lost over an unpaid bond.
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Engineered Stone Silicosis: Who You Can Actually Sue
Quartz countertop dust is sickening workers after just a few years, not decades. A $52 million verdict landed in 2024. Congress may now try to block it all.
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Hernia Mesh Lawsuit: Where Four Separate MDLs Stand
Bard is settling roughly 38,000 cases. Covidien just lost an $88 million bellwether. Four different manufacturers means four different postures.
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IVC Filter Lawsuit: Bard Settled, Cook Still Litigating
One manufacturer has resolved over 8,600 cases quietly. The other just lost its second bellwether trial and is only now heading toward settlement talks.
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NEC Baby Formula Lawsuit: Why the Verdicts Don't Agree
Federal bellwethers against Similac and Enfamil have been thrown out before reaching a jury. State courts have awarded $495 million and $70 million.
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Ozempic and Wegovy Lawsuit: Where the GLP-1 Litigation Stands
Nearly 4,000 cases allege gastroparesis or vision loss from GLP-1 drugs. No trial has happened — but a hearing this September could decide who ever gets one.
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Police Excessive Force Claims and Qualified Immunity
Winning the excessive force argument doesn't automatically win the case — qualified immunity is a separate fight, and a growing number of states now limit it.
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Telehealth Malpractice: Same Standard, New Risks
Courts hold a video visit to the same standard as an office visit — but licensing, prescribing rules and the platform itself add risks an office never had.
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Tylenol Autism Lawsuit: How an Appeals Court Revived It
A federal appeals court just reinstated over 500 Tylenol autism lawsuits, reversing the 2024 ruling that had shut the litigation down entirely.
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Wildfire Claims: Suing the Utility Behind the Fire
A downed power line or an unpruned tree branch can put a utility on the hook for a wildfire — sometimes without any proof of negligence at all.
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Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Life Claims Explained
Two claims from the same missed diagnosis: the parents' own claim is recognized almost everywhere, but the child's own claim is barred in all but three states.
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Wrongful Pregnancy: Failed Sterilization Claims
A botched vasectomy or tubal ligation can be malpractice — but most states won't let you recover the cost of raising the resulting child.
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Zantac Lawsuit: Four Companies, Two Very Different Courts
GSK settled for $2.2 billion. Boehringer just got 80,000 Delaware cases dismissed. Which one matters depends on which Zantac you took, and when.
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Anesthesia Errors & Malpractice Claims
Anesthesia malpractice ranges from a dosing mistake to waking up mid-surgery — and who's responsible depends on rules most patients never see.
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Self-Driving & Driver-Assist Accident Claims
Most systems sold as self-driving are Level 2, which keeps the driver legally responsible — but the crash data belongs to the manufacturer.
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Birth Injury & Obstetric Malpractice Claims
Not every birth injury is malpractice — the hardest fight is usually proving the harm came from how labor was managed, not from a condition that predated it.
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Claims: Landlord Liability
The blood test that proves exposure fades within hours, the symptoms get called flu, and the real injury often shows up weeks later.
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Misdiagnosis & Diagnostic Error Malpractice Claims
Diagnostic error is the most commonly alleged type of malpractice claim, and the fight is almost never about the diagnosis itself — it's about causation.
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Suing Over a Firearm Injury: What PLCAA Actually Blocks
A 2005 federal law shields gun makers and sellers from most lawsuits over criminal misuse — but its exceptions are real and narrower than assumed.
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Food Poisoning Claims: Proving What Made You Sick
Liability is rarely the fight in a foodborne illness claim. Causation is — and a lab sample is what usually decides it.
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Can You Sue the Hospital for a Doctor's Malpractice?
Most ER doctors are independent contractors, not hospital employees — which normally blocks a hospital claim entirely, unless apparent agency applies.
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Informed Consent: When Not Warning You Is Malpractice
A surgery performed perfectly can still be malpractice if you were never told about a material risk that, had you known, would have changed your decision.
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Medical Malpractice Claims: The Four Elements You Must Prove
Malpractice is ordinary negligence law applied to medicine, but one practical difference decides almost every case: you generally cannot win without an expert.
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Medication Errors & Pharmacy Malpractice Claims
A medication error can be a prescribing mistake, a pharmacy dispensing mistake, or a nursing administration mistake — and each points at a different defendant.
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Paraquat Lawsuit: Where the Parkinson's Litigation Stands
A federal judge's pending ruling on general causation could decide over 5,000 cases at once — this litigation's whole future turns on a single Daubert decision.
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Police K9 Bite Claims: Two Different Legal Tracks
A police K9 bite can be a dog bite claim, an excessive force claim, or both — and qualified immunity can shield an officer even after force is ruled excessive.
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Surgical Errors: Wrong-Site Surgery & Retained Objects
Some surgical errors are so basic the law calls them 'never events' — and that classification can let your case skip the expert-testimony requirement entirely.
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Underride Crashes: Why Side Guards Aren't Required Yet
Federal law has required rear underride guards on trailers since 1996 — but side guards are still voluntary, and that gap shapes the whole claim.
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Vaccine Injury Claims: How the VICP Actually Works
Most vaccine injury claims cannot go to court at all. A federal no-fault program decides them first, on its own three-year deadline.
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Wrongful Death From Medical Malpractice: The Causation Fight
Proving malpractice caused a death is harder than proving it caused an injury — the underlying illness is often already competing for credit as the real cause.
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CRPS & Chronic Pain Claims: Why They're Fought So Hard
Complex regional pain syndrome often follows a minor-looking injury and becomes permanent. What proves it, and why insurers contest these claims aggressively.
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Negligent Security Claims: When a Business Failed to Protect You
An assault on someone else's property can be the property owner's fault, not just the attacker's — if the crime was foreseeable and security was inadequate.
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Pre-Existing Conditions: The Aggravation Rule Explained
Almost every adult has something on an MRI. Why aggravating a pre-existing condition is compensable, and what defeats the it-was-already-there defense.
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Defective Product Claims: The Three Theories Explained
Not every product injury needs a mass tort. Design defect, manufacturing defect and failure to warn are three distinct theories to know.
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A Second Accident While Your First Claim Is Pending
Two accidents, one body part, two insurers pointing at each other. How courts actually divide responsibility when an injury can't be cleanly apportioned.
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Vision & Hearing Loss Settlements: Sensory Injury Claims
Losing an eye or your hearing is permanent, measurable and often underpaid. What drives value in sensory loss claims, and the defenses insurers reach for.
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How Much Is a Herniated Disc Settlement Worth? (2026 Guide)
Herniated disc settlement values by treatment level, why MRI findings change everything, and how insurers use degenerative disc disease against you.
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Whiplash Settlement Amounts: Soft Tissue Claim Values (2026)
What whiplash claims settle for, why insurers discount soft tissue injuries, and the documentation that separates a $4,000 claim from a $40,000 one.
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