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19 Jun 2007, 3:50 am
Another interesting Times piece about Chinese-made defective products, this time focusing on toys. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 10:48 pm
On Friday, the New Jersey Supreme Court rejected a public nuisance claim against manufacturers of lead paint: In re Lead Paint Litig. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 10:48 pm
Joni Hersch, Jeffery O'Connell and Kip Viscusi recently have published the following article on SSRN: An Empirical Assessment of Early Offer Reform on Medical Malpractice. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 10:09 pm
Bill Childs has more, as does Eric Turkewitz, who observes that no law firm is named in the ad, and proposes a course of action: Figuring out which law firms have hired the spammer should be easy for an enterprising citizen-journalist, simply by filling out the form at the website that TortsProf linked to and waiting to see who calls or emails in response. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 8:36 am
The NY PI Blog has an interesting post about that Avandia spam I got and the potential ethical violation in its existence. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 8:02 am
...because they'll be next sitting [PDF] in the very fancy ceremonial courtroom in which I clerked in the District of Minnesota. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 4:04 am
At TortsProf, in the comments section, an individual from The Legal Advocate, whose name appeared on the spam mail, says a spammer hijacked their name. [read post]
17 Jun 2007, 4:03 am
The Times has a story about an investigation a decade ago into tainted drugs from China. [read post]
16 Jun 2007, 3:36 am
Looks like plaintiffs' lawyers are pretty enthused about the Avandia possibilities. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 9:01 am
I occasionally wondered in practice the origin of the term Bates numbers. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 6:37 am
This Newsday story comes via TortsProf;At any stage mediation might come up as an option. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 10:32 pm
Tony Sebok addresses the potential tort liability for Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer who flew after diagnosed with TB. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 8:49 am
John Edwards issued a fact sheet [PDF] today addressing a number of aspects of health care, including malpractice reform. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 6:21 am
There's an interesting fight taking place in Minnesota over limitations periods in sexual abuse cases, with full-page ads and everything. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 5:50 am
In a 26-page Health Care policy statement issued today, buried on page 13, is this bit (hat tip to TortsProf):Stop Frivolous Lawsuits: To discourage frivolous suits, Edwards will require lawyers to have an expert testify that actual malpractice has occurred before bringing a suit. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 4:37 am
Various folks (Pharmalot is the most measured, then there's also TortDeform with my comment, and Greedy Trial Lawyer) have noted a Lilly-funded study indicating that advertising can scare folks off of their medicine. [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 3:41 am
Anita Bernstein recently posted the following paper on SSRN: Enhancing Drug Effectiveness and Efficacy Through Personal Injury Litigation. [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 3:40 am
By now, we've all heard about the DC Administrative law judge who is suing his dry cleaner for $54 million (originally $65 million) for losing a pair of pants. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 11:19 am
Two Yale law students have sued administrators and posters at AutoAdmit.com, a law school discussion board (that's describing it generously). [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 7:28 am
I haven't listened to the audio feed (I'm sick, and I blame the Mall of America, just for the record), but Respectful Insolence has a detailed post about the first day of the autism-vaccine trial taking place now. [read post]
