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25 Nov 2017, 12:08 pm
[Sue Gleiter, PennLive via TortsProf/Robinette] Tags: slip and fall “Robot Patrols Grocery Store to Prevent Slip-and-Falls” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 8:24 am
[Brickman @ SSRN via TortsProf] New Federal Initiatives Project Paper on Title IX [Schmauch @ Fed Soc] The Democrats have inadvertently performed a beautiful empirical test proving the proposition that increasing unemployment benefits increases unemployment. [read post]
24 Jul 2009, 8:22 am
(Volokh; Greenfield)Flori-duh town outlaws fun: Now, to be fair to the Clearwater City Council, since they passed this badminton-related deaths have dropped dramatically.And TortsProf with the weekly Personal Injury Law Round-Up. [read post]
24 Aug 2009, 4:06 am
Many thanks to John Hochfelder for joining us as a guestblogger last week. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 8:48 am
Check out TortsProf's list of the top ten recent tort/product liability law review articles. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 2:18 pm
Discovery can be brutal; A new trailer for Hot Coffee (which I discussed last year when it went to the Sundance Film Festival); Most clients aren’t like this, but some can be pretty dumb; Taco Bell and the art of self-defense; And TortsProf has the Personal Injury Law Round-Up. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 10:09 pm
Bill Childs has more, as does Eric Turkewitz, who observes that no law firm is named in the ad, and proposes a course of action: Figuring out which law firms have hired the spammer should be easy for an enterprising citizen-journalist, simply by filling out the form at the website that TortsProf linked to and waiting to see who calls or emails in response. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 2:34 am
As we've covered at TortsProfs, Twitter libel suits are fairly common these days. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 10:55 pm
(New York Legal Update);A judge pays off bet with beer (Sentencing Law and Policy);Blawg Review #139 celebrates Human Rights Day at De Novo;Health Wonk Review is up at HealthBlawg;In Massachusetts, the duty of a doctor has now been extended beyond the patient, to those the patient might injure while on the drugs prescribed by the doctor (TortsProf);Hospital systems should be designed to anticipate human error (NY Emergency Medicine);The Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial gets analyzed… [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 7:54 am
According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (via TortsProf) the award "recognizes law professors who are committed to the advancement of justice, scholarship and the legal profession in the fields of tort and insurance law. [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 2:55 am
And the Routledge Encyclopedia of Libertarianism includes Jessica Flanigan on libertarianism and medicine; If treatment deviating from the standard of care is the standard for malpractice, then some patients in pursuit of unconventional therapy choose it, and the law of waivers and of assumption of risk should respect their autonomy [Nadia Sawicki via TortsProf] About the Washington Post’s big opioid-legislation exposé, a few questions [Robert VerBruggen] Tags:… [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 8:48 am
Check out TortsProf's list of the top ten recent tort/product liability law review articles. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 3:46 pm
[WSJ Law Blog (and farewell to Peter Lattman)] In the category of gambits we're sympathetic to, but are unlikely to succeed: East Texas burger restaurant tries mandatory-arbitration-by-posted-window-notice [TortsProf] Mikal Watts puff piece [Corpus Christi Caller-Times] [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 5:56 am
[Charleston City Paper, with links to complaints, via Sheila Scheuerman, TortsProf] On the erosion of the old “firefighters’ rule” which prevented rescuers from suing over injuries sustained in the course of their rescues, see our tag on the subject. [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 9:05 pm
-elect Cory Booker (and Mayor Bloomberg too) on liability reform and fixing health care [NJLRA] How plaintiff’s lawyers get around caps [Alex Stein, Bill of Health] Missouri protects health volunteer workers [John Ross] Like an Ayn Rand novel: Massachusetts ballot initiative pushes confiscation of private hospital profits [Ira Stoll, NY Sun] Advice: plan now to lower your 2014 income to get valuable ObamaCare subsidies [San Francisco Chronicle] Medicare comes off poorly: “Quality Of… [read post]
12 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm
. $810 in Minnesota, and other med-mal loss statistics [Becker's Hospital Review via TortsProf] Charge: black lung defense firm finds ways to conceal medical expert reports from adversaries [Center for Public Integrity via Joe Patrice, Above the Law] Prescribing drugs for off-label uses is perfectly legal, but Johnson & Johnson will pay $2.2 billion for promoting the practice [Ann Althouse] Jury awards $4 million legal malpractice verdict against prominent D.C. [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 11:36 am
[Above the Law; Lattman; TortsProf] Can KFed use custody battle to renegotiate "ironclad" prenup? [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 10:19 am
These guys certainly don't suffer in the writing style department;TortsProf Bill Childs has his Personal Injury Law Round-Up, which is not only his 13th edition, but comes with two bonus Halloween photos (warning, cute kids alert);Ron Miller has a surprising piece debunking the myth of big Christmastime verdicts;LemonJustice should have held this post from yesterday for today, about Allstate and their commercials and what they don't tell you about their own conduct and how it can… [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 6:26 am
Scheuerman has this week's Personal Injury Law round-up at TortsProf. [read post]
22 Aug 2008, 10:06 am
(And he links this week to, inter alia, a tort "reforming" Chamber of Commerce that has brought it's own lawsuit;Walter Olson provides the flip side of Lane with his round-up from the conservative side, focusing on toxic cases at Point of Law;Bill Childs has put this week's Personal Injury Law Round-Up up at TortsProf with a link to, inter alia, the Big Foot hoax and subsequent lawsuit;An Olympian Blawg Review is up at Chicago IP Litigation Blog;And those four links… [read post]
