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1 Jan 2009, 4:45 am
Just in time for the AALS panel on Foreign Tort Law Beyond Europe, Robert Leflar (Arkansas) has posted on SSRN two pieces about regulating the Japanese medical profession. [read post]
1 Jan 2009, 4:44 am
Patricia Born (Cal State, Northridge), Kip Viscusi (Vanderbilt), and Tom Baker (Penn) have posted The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers' Ultimate Losses on SSRN. [read post]
31 Dec 2008, 8:03 am
Happy New Year to all our readers! [read post]
31 Dec 2008, 7:14 am
At about 9:00 this morning, we received our 200,000th visitor to the TortsProf blog. [read post]
31 Dec 2008, 3:55 am
Earlier this year, I noted the lawsuit, related to the death of a seven-year-old boy on a Sizzler carnival ride on Easter 2007. [read post]
30 Dec 2008, 6:01 am
According to the WSJ Law Blog, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a ninth grade cheerleader to bring a negligence claim against her fellow student cheerleader for allegedly failing to properly spot her during a stunt.... [read post]
30 Dec 2008, 5:58 am
The Tennessean reports that GOP lawmakers have tort reform on their agenda for next year. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 5:35 am
Tort legislation is now under consideration in the National Peoples' Congress. [read post]
26 Dec 2008, 3:42 pm
From the announcement e-mail: Dan Dobbs will receive the William Prosser award for outstanding contributions to Torts scholarship, teaching, and service at this year's AALS Torts Section Meeting. [read post]
26 Dec 2008, 5:06 am
Mark Lanier, of Vioxx litigation fame, addressed Jon Hanson's Torts class at Harvard last month. [read post]
25 Dec 2008, 6:54 am
Mark Grady (UCLA) has posted The Free Radicals of Tort on SSRN. [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 9:42 am
Last Christmas, a seventeen-year-old was mauled to death at the San Francisco Zoo. [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 5:48 am
The New York Times reports that Elsevier, a publisher of medical journals, is investigating whether an article published in the May 2003 edition of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology was ghostwritten by Wyeth. [read post]
23 Dec 2008, 2:43 pm
In today's Wall Street Journal, Dan Slater examines the question of who should pay the costs of litigation - a loser pays rule as in Canada, Germany and the U.K., or the so-called American rule where each side bears its... [read post]
23 Dec 2008, 2:38 pm
The new volume of the Yale Law Journal Pocket Part includes an article by Nancy S. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 6:34 pm
I linked to a story about it in Friday's Roundup, but it's worth noting separately that California's Supreme Court last week ruled that the tort liability protection for rescuers is narrow. [read post]
21 Dec 2008, 5:26 am
[TortsProf; earlier here and here]... [read post]
19 Dec 2008, 2:17 pm
Note: There will be no roundup for the next two weeks. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 2:00 pm
Lars Noah (Florida) has posted Platitudes about "Product Stewardship" in Torts: Continuing Drug Research and Education on SSRN. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 12:02 pm
The Australian reports that the Victorian Court of Appeal in Australia has expanded the old tort of "breach of confidence" to allow liability even if the publisher of material created in confidence was "unaware the material in question is covered... [read post]
