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7 Aug 2020, 6:26 am
The New Jersey Appellate Division reinstated two suits linking Johnson & Johnson's talc products to ovarian cancer. [read post]
29 Jul 2009, 6:52 am
RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Torts & Products Liability Law May 30, 2009 to July 29, 2009 Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 124 The Decision to Award Punitive... [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 4:59 am
On Monday, a federal district judge in Mississippi dismissed a climate change suit over Hurricane Katrina-related property damage, holding the connection between any individual's conduct and weather-related harm was too tenuous to support a tort judgment. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 2:00 am
Mike Rustad asks. [read post]
26 May 2012, 5:08 am
The opinion (pdf) is here: Download DC-#375579-v1-Pa__Betz_Simikian_Supreme_Court_opinion_pdf[1]. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 4:44 am
SCOTUS Blog is hosting an on-line symposium on the Alien Tort Statute, and in particular the Court's decision in Kiobel v. [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 3:07 am
A Kentucky woman has filed a lawsuit alleging that the medical malpractice panels put in place earlier this year and effective June 29th are unconstitutional: The 38-page suit claims the law “discriminates against a class of litigants who, based on... [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 11:51 am
A compromise among trial lawyers, medical groups, and lawmakers has been reached that will raise California's medical malpractice caps and avert a November ballot initiative. [read post]
20 Mar 2019, 1:16 am
Nathan Oman has posted to SSRN John Calvin's Quarrel with Civil Recourse Theory. [read post]
30 Apr 2013, 6:44 am
Because of the link between torts and insurance, many of you either teach Insurance or are interested in the subject. [read post]
13 Jun 2013, 11:37 am
Keith Hylton (Boston University) has posted to SSRN The Economics of Class Actions and Class Action Waivers. [read post]
1 Jun 2015, 5:03 am
The largest premises verdict in Texas in the last decade, for the deaths of two teenagers, was handed down against McDonald's last month. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 11:20 pm
At JOTWELL, Nora Engstrom has posted "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself": How Physicians' Exaggerated Conception of Medical Malpractice Liability Has Become the Real Problem. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 1:02 am
Beau Baez (Charlotte) writes: Here is my recurring problem around final exam time: how to explain to students when they need to discuss the unforeseeable plaintiff. [read post]
18 Apr 2016, 4:55 am
Back in February, I reported about a suit brought by families of the children murdered in Newtown against gun manufacturers. [read post]
21 Feb 2015, 1:17 am
Defences in Tort Edited by Andrew Dyson, James Goudkamp and Frederick Wilmot-Smith This book is the first in a series of essay collections on defences in private law. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 3:10 am
Wednesday, April 9, 12:25-1:50 p.m. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 1:51 am
Symeon Symeonides has published his annual chocie of law survey. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 5:36 am
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]
13 Jan 2010, 11:15 pm
We are delighted to announce the Guest Blogger Monday lineup for the Spring 2010 semester: 1/25--Mike Green (Wake Forest) 2/1--Richard Epstein (Chicago) 2/8--Kenneth Abraham (Virginia) 2/15--Alan Calnan (Southwestern) 2/22--Anita Bernstein (Brooklyn) 3/1--Kenneth Simons (Boston University) 3/8--Michael McCann (Vermont) 3/15--James Henderson... [read post]
