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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]
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]
17 Jan 2014, 5:49 am
” [Daniel Fisher/Forbes and followup and related, Joe Nocera/New York Times, Paul Barrett, Bloomberg Business Week, Charlotte Observer, order at TortsProf] On the patterns of multiple dipping exposed by Judge Janis Graham Jack in 2005 litigation, see Jim Copland’s summary here. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 9:10 pm
Smith, SSRN via TortsProf] Tags: alcohol, autism, Canada, Maryland, publishers Related posts Sobering New Year’s thought (0) September 2000 archives, part 3 (0) October 1999 archives, part 2 (2) November 2002 archives, part 1 (1) November 1999 archives, part 1 (1) [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 5:19 am
Torts buffs (including our Ted Frank) want to know [TortsProf exchange with Michael Rustad and followup, more and yet more] Tags: California, forfeiture, Google, hot coffee, Massachusetts, medical malpractice, patent law, Ted Frank, Washington state, zero tolerance Related posts May 2001 archives, part 2 (1) Tobacco class action update (0) September 23 roundup (1) September 2002 archives, part 3 (0) September 2001 archives, part 1 (0) [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 2:03 pm
I have much more to say about that at the New York Daily News online opinion section (& linked at Above the Law, John Hayward/Human Events, Jammie Wearing Fool, Andrew Stuttaford/NRO “Corner”, Chris Robinette/TortsProf, Ira Stoll/Future of Capitalism), and am also quoted in the Reuters coverage. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 10:17 pm
Jury acquits ex-firefighter who claimed disability while competing as a bodybuilder [Boston Herald] Authorities snatch kids from homes after parents busted with small amounts of pot [NYT, Tim Lynch/Cato] “Case Study on Impact of Tort Reform in Mississippi” [Mark Behrens via Scheuerman/TortsProf] When opt-in works: “More than 27,000 S. [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]
15 Aug 2011, 2:34 am
As we've covered at TortsProfs, Twitter libel suits are fairly common these days. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 9:05 pm
Call: 717-671-1901 [promotion for Commonwealth Foundation, a Pennsylvania free-market-oriented outfit] How litigation finance might remake the lawsuit landscape [Nora Freeman Engstrom via TortsProf] Tweet Tags: asbestos, Japan, product liability, Stella LiebeckLiability and torts roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 12:04 pm
TortsProf has the 12/12/08 edition of the Personal Injury Law Round-Up, in case you missed it.And Eliot Spitzer has his coming out at a party hosted by Slate. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 2:35 pm
TortsProf Blog called it a "heck of a waiver," but after a quick scan of all 22 single-spaced pages over at The Smoking Gun, I'd classify it as the mother of all waivers. [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]
8 Nov 2006, 11:36 am
[Above the Law; Lattman; TortsProf] Can KFed use custody battle to renegotiate "ironclad" prenup? [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]
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]
31 Jul 2014, 9:05 pm
” Sergey Brin: doubt it, field’s “just so heavily regulated” [Michael Cannon/Cato, David Shaywitz] “One Box of Sudafed Over the Line: Florida Woman Arrested for Trying to Relieve Allergy Symptoms” [Jacob Sullum] MICRA battle: survey finds OB-GYNs in Los Angeles County pay average $49,804 a year for coverage, in Long Island where there’s unlimited liability it’s $196,111 [Legal NewsLine] Medical liability claims fall in Wisconsin [Althouse] And… [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]
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 Aug 2009, 6:18 am
Sui Generis with a weekly New York Legal News Round Up;TortsProf with this week's Personal Injury Round-Up, which they have now been doing for over one year;And Scott Greenfield pinch hits at Blawg Review for a reviewer that when AWOL. [read post]
