Category: Mass Torts

Mass torts constitute a civil action involving numerous plaintiffs against one or a select few corporate defendants in state or federal court. Unlike class actions, where a single lawsuit represents all similarly situated individuals, a mass tort preserves the individuality of each plaintiff’s claim while consolidating cases for pretrial efficiency. This legal mechanism has become…

On January 15, 2015, a federal court reached a decision in the BP Oil Spill case assessing the amount of oil that was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. Judge Carl J. Barbier of the Federal District Court in New Orleans issued a ruling finding that BP 3.19 million barrels of oil were spilled following…