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20 Mar 2008, 4:36 am
After passing the Health Committee, the Hawaiian tort reform bill moved to the House floor, where the House agreed by voice vote to send the bill back to committee. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 5:35 am
I just read "Sorry Works! [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 5:12 am
Hurricane Katrina victims have added the Federal Emergency Management Agency to their suit against the manufacturers of trailers provided to the victims for emergency housing following the hurricane. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 2:25 pm
But that initial call is how it all starts.Other posts on the subject:Medical Malpractice - Vetting the CaseMedical Malpractice EconomicsMedical Malpractice - A PrimerNo, Your Medical Malpractice Case Will NOT Settle FastAddendum 3/19/08 -- From TortsProf Sheila B. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 11:13 pm
Kim Campbell Thornton has an interesting article at MSNBC reviewing the state of the law one-year after the biggest pet food recall in U.S. history: While pet food safety legislation has been passed and an industry commission has made recommendations... [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 11:06 pm
We've been following the on-again, off-again tort reform efforts in Hawaii for the past month or so. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 7:55 am
In light of the recent Crimtorts Symposium at Widener, I find this piece by Christopher Green (Mississippi) quite interesting: The Food-Chain Issue for Corporate Punishment: What Criminal Law and Punitive Damages Can Learn from Each Other. [read post]
16 Mar 2008, 3:30 am
Jennifer Arlen (NYU) has posted to SSRN a new paper, "Contracting over Malpractice Liability," discussing the recent trend towards advocating for a contractual resolution of medical malpractice rather than a tort one. [read post]
15 Mar 2008, 7:13 am
Indlaw.com has an interesting essay about tort law in India. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 10:12 pm
Per Sheila Scheuerman at TortsProf, the "Georgia Supreme Court on Monday upheld the expert witness section (Section 7) of Georgia's 2005 tort reform law. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 12:04 pm
A California jury has just returned a defense verdict in favor of a cardiologist and a radiologist in the 2003 death of actor John Ritter. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 9:08 am
Judge Allan L. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 8:38 am
The bill to raise the noneconomic damages cap (from $300,000 to approximately $460,000) in medical malpractice cases has been stalled, at least temporarily. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 8:35 am
(hat tip to TortsProf)More: Ritter Lawsuit Demonstrates How Medical Malpractice Caps Discriminate On Basis Of Wealth (David Lowe, InjuryBoard:Milwaukee) [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 6:28 am
Regular readers of "Day on Torts" know that John Day has been on a weeks-long hiatus to try a med mal case. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 3:26 pm
The president of the meat company that the Humane Society caught abusing cattle had a rough day in Congress, as the WSJ law blog reports. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 1:34 pm
In a decision released last week, the Oregon Supreme Court has set a presumptive 4 to 1 ratio for punitive damages in economic injury cases: "[A]s a very general rule of thumb, the federal constitution prohibits any punitive damages award... [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 6:17 am
The Pacific Research Institute has released its 2008 Tort Liability Index [pdf]. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 12:57 am
Hat tip to Mitchell Rubinstein, Adjunct Law Prof Blog, and Bill Childs, TortsProf Blog. [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 12:50 pm
In Mason v. [read post]
