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17 Dec 2007, 6:26 am
Friend of TortsProf Andrew McClurg (Memphis) has a fun site of legal humor; its three-pack of classics from his time writing the Harmless Error column for the ABA Journal right now has two faux complaints, including one for the Children... [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 5:58 am
I (and I imagine others) use ski slope injuries a lot in discussing assumption of risk, especially thanks to the frequent statutory overlay. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 5:03 am
A recent Chicago trial over the admittedly wrongful shooting of a young man by the Chicago police, frames damages discussions well. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 1:01 am
The TortsProf blog recently published an interesting post on the subject of calculating wrongful death damages. [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 4:53 am
Towers Perrin has released its 2007 Update on U.S. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 7:54 am
The House yesterday rejected Rep. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 6:00 am
Is a foundation set up to administer the clinical practices of faculty at a medical school in Virginia eligible for charitable immunity? [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 4:53 am
The Boston Globe has the story of Audrey Serrano, who was given HIV treatment for nine years when, it turned out, she was not in fact infected. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 10:55 pm
(New York Legal Update);A judge pays off bet with beer (Sentencing Law and Policy);Blawg Review #139 celebrates Human Rights Day at De Novo;Health Wonk Review is up at HealthBlawg;In Massachusetts, the duty of a doctor has now been extended beyond the patient, to those the patient might injure while on the drugs prescribed by the doctor (TortsProf);Hospital systems should be designed to anticipate human error (NY Emergency Medicine);The Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial gets analyzed… [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 4:43 am
Are foundations set up to administer the clinical practices of faculty at medical schools eligible for charitable immunity? [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 4:32 am
As Bill previously mentioned, Southwestern University Law Review will be hosting a major absestos litigation symposium in January. [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 4:31 am
Beck & Hermann over at Drug & Device Blog alerted me to the arrival of a new blog of interest to readers of TortsProf: Medical Devices: Law, Trends and Oddities by Michael Shalhoub. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 6:56 pm
Via USPIRG's Consumer Blog, ABC's got the story of a civil suit by Jamie Leigh Jones against Halliburton for sexual harassment and an alleged gang rape, and its likely destination: arbitration. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 1:00 pm
TortsProf Blog calls it "an opinion with potentially broad implications," and Overlawyered describes it as a "gigantic expansion... [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 4:44 am
In an opinion with potentially broad implications, the Supreme Judicial Court here in Massachusetts has ruled (click on Coombes v. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 4:33 am
Over at Legal Theory Blog, Larry Solum has a fascinating Lexicon entry on "the reasonable person. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 4:26 am
Toby Shute (Motley Fool over at MSNBC.com) predicts that the new wave of lawsuits will be climate change suits: Known to its detractors as Trial Lawyers, Inc., the plaintiffs' bar makes serious bucks by launching mass tort and class action... [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 11:00 am
An intermediate appellate court in New York has affirmed the award of punitive damages in a breach of privacy case where a medical practice failed to keep a patient's abortion private from her parents. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 3:36 am
Happily, Eric Turkewtiz was uninjured in his recent car accident, and he wrote about it here. [read post]
9 Dec 2007, 9:10 am
Honest, you really won't want to. [read post]
