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1 Aug 2008, 9:25 am
TortsProf Bill Childs, as previously mentioned, has picked up the job of doing personal injury law roundups.Today is his first edition, Personal Injury Roundup No. 1 (8/1/2008), with lots of good links to peruse, even during the dog days of summer. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 6:35 pm
So reports Pharmalot. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 12:11 pm
For the most part, certainly at the national level, tort issues have not been central to campaigning, at least so far this year. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 11:35 am
Peter Schuck (Yale/NYU) has posted Tort Reform, Kiwi-Style on SSRN. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 10:01 am
Earlier this week, the guys (and gal) over at TortsProf announced that they would take over the Personal Injury Law... [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 8:53 pm
It's been a year since Katie Lasitter's feet were severed by the Superman: Tower of Power ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, and it astonishes me that the case is still going even now, especially after the various revelations since... [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 11:59 am
A conference committee has reached an agreement on a bill to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 11:46 am
Yesterday, U.S. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 3:05 pm
Most of our readers probably know about the personal injury roundup -- it started and then stopped with Eric Turkewitz, then went to Brooks Schuelke, who announced last week its demise. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 1:53 pm
A few months back, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer wrote on Slate about potential conflicts of interest, addressing doctors who had received funds from pharma talking about SSRIs on public radio. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 12:11 pm
The California Supreme Court has accepted review in County of Santa Clara v. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 11:55 am
In a decision last week, the New York Appellate Division (First Dept.) held that individual punitive damages claims by NY smokers are barred by the doctrine of res judicata. [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 9:23 pm
And just like that, new life is breathed into the almost-still body of the round-up by TortsProf Bill Childs and his merry band of professorial bloggers! [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 7:37 pm
That's the conclusion of an article in the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (with a 2007 citation date, but the press release is today). [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 4:37 pm
It took a bit longer than I expected, but my article, When the Bell Can't be Unrung: Document Leaks and Protective Orders in Mass Tort Litigation, is now out in The Review of Litigation (the article is not online there,... [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 12:22 pm
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the first of three bellwether trials have started in Minneapolis (in front of my judge), testing the case for the link between Parkinson's/restless leg syndrome drug Mirapex and compulsive gambling. [read post]
26 Jul 2008, 12:03 pm
From the Wall Street Journal's Market Watch: OLDWICK, N.J., Jul 25, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Falling medical malpractice premiums led to a 15% drop in net premiums written between 2006 and 2007 for a composite of captive insurance companies, but... [read post]
25 Jul 2008, 11:52 am
Sometimes the first sentence of an article says it all: Plaintiffs lawyers are advertising on the Internet for clients whose granite countertops are emitting high levels of radon. [read post]
25 Jul 2008, 11:46 am
On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court acknowledged, for the first time, that the loss of chance doctrine was good law in that jurisdiction: "Where a physician's negligence reduces or eliminates the patient's prospects for achieving a more favorable medical... [read post]
24 Jul 2008, 2:20 pm
The Northwestern University Law Review's Colloquy has just uploaded part II of Cathy Sharkey's essay What Riegel Portends for FDA Preemption of State Law Products Liability Claims. [read post]
