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9 Feb 2018, 4:34 am
An Illinois appellate court has cut a med mal verdict from $22M to $7M because the plaintiff died the day before the verdict was handed down. [read post]
23 Jul 2018, 10:30 am
On July 26, 2017, a ride at the Ohio State Fair catastrophically failed, killing one, seriously injuring four, and injuring 22 others. [read post]
24 Jul 2019, 1:59 am
Mark Geistfeld has posted to SSRN The Law and Economics of Tort Liability for Human Rights Violations in Global Supply Chains. [read post]
3 Aug 2016, 1:44 am
On Monday, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that a woman who found her husband crushed to death shortly after a large ATV fell on him cannot sue his employer for bystander emotional distress. [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]
22 Aug 2016, 1:12 am
Over at JOTWELL, Ellie Bublick reviews Donal Nolan's Preventive Damages. [read post]
27 Sep 2016, 1:11 am
The family of an 18-year-old killed when his motorcycle crashed into a bean field has filed a tort claim notice against the town that once employed the off-duty reserve officer who chased the teen. [read post]
6 Jun 2017, 4:04 am
New York is one of the few remaining jurisdictions that does not have a discovery rule for its medical malpractice statute of limitations. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 5:11 am
In an attempt to incentivize health care workers and retired health care workers to join the fight against COVID-19, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order relieving health care workers of medical malpractice liability while providing services in the state's... [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 2:37 am
Tim Lytton has an editorial in USA Today: "Blanket COVID-19 liability shield for businesses is not the immunity we need in this crisis". [read post]
31 Jan 2022, 4:36 am
John Goldberg & Ben Zipursky have posted to SSRN their contribution to the Journal of Tort Law's "State of Tort Theory" symposium. [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 7:48 am
At JOTWELL, Sandy Steel reviews Rebecca Stone's Private Liability without Wrongdoing. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 5:05 am
Barbara Evans & Frank Pasquale have posted to SSRN Product Liability Suits for FDA-Regulated AI/ML Software. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 5:04 am
On January 12, 2015 an electrical malfunction caused a Metro train to fill with smoke. [read post]
6 Jun 2016, 2:27 am
On April 3, an Amtrak train traveling from New York to Savannah collided with a backhoe in Chester, PA. [read post]
6 Feb 2014, 12:41 am
Joe King (Emeritus, Tennessee), in a recent issue of the Vermont Law Review, examines the issue of whether the NY Times standard for defamation should apply to statements about former public officials and former candidates. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 7:42 am
It could be yours for a mere $39.5 million. [read post]
26 Sep 2009, 5:43 am
As Chris previously reported, a new article by Ted Eisenberg (Cornell) takes on the Chamber of Commerce's annual "state liability ranking study," which ranks the lawsuit climate in all fifty states. [read post]
23 Oct 2010, 2:00 am
Monday's Guest Blogger is James R. [read post]
18 Jul 2018, 9:09 am
AMP (Arkansas Money & Politics) has the story. [read post]
