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25 Apr 2011, 5:56 am by tortsprof
In just a few weeks time the American Law Institute’s annual meeting will consider Chapter 10 of the Restatement Third of Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harms. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 2:00 am by tortsprof
At the past meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, the Torts & Compensation Systems Section, chaired by John Goldberg, devoted its session to an examination of my academic writings on the law of tort. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 1:44 am by tortsprof
There is widespread acceptance of the idea that tort law and insurance are intimately related. [read post]
19 Aug 2014, 2:45 pm by Katharine Van Tassel
In 2014, the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, the state’s bioethics commission, will release its updated Allocation of Ventilators in an Influenza Pandemic, which enunciate a comprehensive clinical and ethical framework to guide distribution of... [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 10:00 pm by Katharine Van Tassel
Learning where people with disabilities seek care, as well as the physical, equipment, and attitudinal barriers they face there, is important. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 3:55 pm by Katharine Van Tassel
As we prepare for the second open enrollment period for the health insurance marketplaces to begin in just over one month, transparency offers a potential means of empowering consumers to make better decisions regarding the health plans they choose. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 10:00 pm by Katharine Van Tassel
On June 4, 2014, the New York Court of Appeals heard the New York City Board of Health’s appeal of the decision striking down its Portion Cap aka Soda Ban rule.[1] (The choice of name reflects one’s position on the... [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 5:30 am by Katharine Van Tassel
Is a physician entitled to condition medical treatment upon the patient’s “agreement” to submit future medical negligence claims to arbitration and waive the right to a jury trial? [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 6:30 am
One year ago, many tort scholars and securities analysts believed that a major shift was about to occur in products liability law: our nation’s highest court was about to declare that claims against pharmaceutical manufacturers were preempted. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 10:00 pm by Katharine Van Tassel
Recently scientists at Oxford University revealed that they have developed a facial-recognition program that uses ordinary family photos to help diagnose rare genetic conditions. [read post]
15 Sep 2009, 4:52 pm
What Doctors Must Know When Treating the Elderly It's not something that we want to think of consciously, but then, we must accept that growing old is a fact of life and that all of us will get there someday.... [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 5:01 pm by admin
In the United States, women have a long way to go to reach parity with men when it comes to partnerships in leading law firms. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 5:25 pm by Katharine Van Tassel
Well, that is how the Wall Street Journal described the March 3, 2014 grant of certiorari in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners vs. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 4:04 am
As promised, I want to explore the debate over tort reform from a systematic perspective. [read post]
17 Feb 2014, 4:58 pm by Katharine Van Tassel
Bill Sage and David Hyman offer an interesting proposal in “Let’s Make a Deal: Trading Malpractice Reform for Health Reform,” in last month’s issue of Health Affairs. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 5:36 am by tortsprof
What’s Wrong with Torts (II) In my previous post I suggested that torts are legal wrongs rather than moral wrongs, and that the concept of a legal wrong is not vacuous, but instead refers to the violation of a directive... [read post]