Holly Pauling Smith and Madeleine McDonough, “A New Frontier: Health-Claims Class Actions,” The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Class & Group Actions 2011”

Shook, Hardy & Bacon Global Product Liability Partner Holly Pauling Smith
and Agribusiness & Food Safety Co-Chair Madeleine McDonough have
co-authored this chapter on the consumer-fraud class actions to which
plaintiffs’ lawyers have resorted given their inability to persuade courts to
certify personal-injury mass torts. The chapter, which focuses on recent cases
involving health-related claims or omissions for food and beverage products,
appears in an international reference on class and group actions. Smith and
McDonough have also contributed a chapter discussing how the class-action
procedure functions in the United States.