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5 Feb 2016, 3:20 am
Gijs Van Dijck (Tilburg University) has posted to SSRN Should Physicians Be Afraid of Tort Liability? [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 2:30 am
At Lexology, Anand Agneshwar and Emily May of Arnold & Porter recap Justice Scalia's legacy from a torts perspective. [read post]
4 Aug 2016, 2:49 am
Many jurisdictions have enacted protections for "innocent" sellers of products found to be defective in an attempt to place the burden of compensation on the party with (the most) fault, generally the manufacturer. [read post]
8 Aug 2014, 1:55 am
Ellen M. [read post]
20 Feb 2025, 1:58 pm
The main GA tort reform bill is set for a vote in the Georgia Senate tomorrow. [read post]
30 Apr 2025, 7:29 am
At JOTWELL, Ifeoma Ajunwa reviews Cathy Sharkey's A Products Liability Framework for AI. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 5:14 am
Nora Engstrom, David Hyman & Charles Silver have filed an amicus brief in a Texas case on damages: The brief addresses two misguided proposals that Petitioners—tort defendants in the trial court below—are pushing in a case currently before the Supreme... [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 4:36 am
Cyndi Nance, Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, will receive the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award from the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education. [read post]
15 Apr 2019, 3:20 am
Last week, all models of Fisher-Price's Rock 'N Roll Play Sleepers (approximately 5 million units) were recalled. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 5:02 am
George Maliha has posted to SSRN The Distortive Effect of the National Practitioner Data Bank on Medical Malpractice Litigation and Settlement. [read post]
5 Sep 2019, 5:50 am
A Philadelphia man alleged Wawa knowingly sold coffee in defective cups, leading to his scalding injury: The main thrust of the litigation is that the defendants allegedly knew the model cup manufactured by RPC Letica and used by Wawa, the... [read post]
13 Nov 2019, 12:20 am
In March, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled, 4-3, that plaintiff families from the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting could proceed to trial against Remington, the manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15 used in the attack. [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 6:29 am
Benjamin van Rooij and Megan Brownlee have posted to SSRN Does Tort Deter? [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 2:49 am
The AALS Torts and Compensation Systems Section has announced that the 2021 Prosser Award honoree is Judge Jack Weinstein. [read post]
7 Nov 2017, 3:41 am
This issue was debated on Capitol Hill and beyond last week, and included analogies to tort law such as the "post-sale duty to warn" in products liability. [read post]
13 Dec 2016, 3:06 am
Benjamin McMichael, Lawrence Van Horn, and Kip Viscusi (all Vanderbilt) have posted to SSRN Sorry is Never Enough: The Effect of State Apology Laws on Medical Malpractice Liability Risk. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 3:36 am
The Arkansas legislature is considering a proposed constitutional amendment that would go to voters in November 2018. [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 2:11 am
Last year, Georgia debated becoming the first state in the country to reform med mal along the lines of workers comp. [read post]
2 Jul 2009, 4:54 am
Matthew Kugler (Princeton-Psychology), John Darley (Princeton), Joseph Sanders (Houston), & Lawrence Solan (Brooklyn) have posted to SSRN Riding a Bicycle is Not an Abnormally Dangerous Activity: Lay Perceptions and the Appearance of Strict Liability Standards in Mundane Cases. [read post]
4 Oct 2009, 10:26 pm
I thought I would use my time as a guest blogger to discuss my forthcoming book "Justice Rewritten: An Historical, Political and Economic Analysis of Civil Justice. [read post]
