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19 Jul 2010, 2:00 am
The National Law Journal (via law.com) reports that a federal district court judge has thrown out the plaintiff's causation expert in the "popcorn lung" case. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 2:00 am
Bloomberg Business Week (AP) reports that New York City paid about $521 million in 2010 to settle personal injury and property damages suits. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 6:52 am
AALS has posted the podcasts from the Annual Meeting. [read post]
6 Oct 2012, 2:51 am
His coverage at Torts Today is here and he links to the NYT story (quoting Marshall Shapo and Frank Vandall). [read post]
2 Jun 2022, 9:07 am
At JOTWELL, Lyrissa Lidsky reviews Cristina Carmody Tilley's (Re)Categorizing Defamation. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 12:07 am
Last week, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that Amazon is not a supplier for purposes of the Ohio Products Liability Act, and therefore not liable for the death of a teenage boy killed by an overdose of caffeine powder... [read post]
31 Aug 2017, 3:24 am
Two large med mal death verdicts were just handed down in Detroit and Minneapolis. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 7:12 am
One of the medical malpractice reforms recently adopted in Florida allows lawyers for health care providers in med mal claims to collect information on private conversations between patients and other health care providers without the patient's consent. [read post]
18 Feb 2023, 11:07 am
Byron Stier and I are pleased to announce "Concluding the Restatement (Third) of Torts" at Southwestern Law School on March 24, 2023: Since the early 1990s, the American Law Institute has been drafting the Restatement (Third) of Torts. [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 1:24 am
A new study by the RAND Corporation has failed to find evidence of widespread defensive medicine. [read post]
26 May 2020, 6:51 am
Ronen Avraham & Tony Sebok have posted to SSRN An Empirical Investigation of Third Party Consumer Litigant Funding. [read post]
23 Aug 2023, 5:18 am
Bernie Bell has posted to SSRN Aggressive Police Actions to Dislodge Intruders and Competing Takings Clause and Fourth Amendment Regimes. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 2:15 am
Last week, the Nevada Supreme Court unanimously upheld the state's $350,000 med mal cap on non-economic damages. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 12:14 pm
In a local case that made national news, York Hospital announced that as many as 1,300 patients who had open-heart surgery over several years could have been exposed to bacteria. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 12:37 pm
The ABA has sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte voicing opposition to: (1) a $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages, (2) several liability, and (3) a provision allowing judges to reduce contingent fees for plaintiffs' attorneys. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 6:30 am
One year ago, many tort scholars and securities analysts believed that a major shift was about to occur in products liability law: our nation’s highest court was about to declare that claims against pharmaceutical manufacturers were preempted. [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 2:00 am
A Florida wrongful death suit is testing the reach of the state's worker's compensation statute. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 12:27 pm
I posted this before, but it was via a link to AALS and required a password. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 9:11 am
A med mal filing in California accuses a hospital of negligently placing a live patient in a morgue freezer and freezing her to death. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 3:50 am
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Missouri issued an opinion in Coomer, the case of the fan injured by a flying hot dog. [read post]
