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12 Jun 2007, 3:17 am
Please join me in Charleston this coming September for a symposium on punitive damages. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 3:11 am
In an interview on New Hampshire Public Radio, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards commented on tort reform, and proposed that lawyers should be required to seek pre-filing approval of medical cases from a board of experts who have to certify... [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 7:37 am
Thanks to Sheila for covering the blog while I was traveling! [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 3:57 am
As reported in Newsday, the New York medical examiner has announced that the death of a seventeen-year-old track star on Staten Island was caused by high levels of methyl salicylate - an anti-inflammatory found in sports creams such as Bengay... [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 3:30 am
The FDA announced that its Science Board will hold a public meeting on June 14th. [read post]
10 Jun 2007, 4:56 am
On its website, the NewsHour With Jim Lehrer has published a transcript of an interesting interview with William Hubbard, former associate commissioner of the FDA. [read post]
9 Jun 2007, 3:13 pm
The New Jersey Law Journal (via law.com) reports that a New Jersey jury awarded $2.5M in damages, and $119,000 for past medicals against Hoffman La-Roche and its Swiss parent company. [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 9:18 am
(via TortsProf). [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 3:50 am
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports that Robert Bork, the former nominee to the Supreme Court and current professor at Ave Maria, has filed a negligence suit against the Yale Club based on a slip-and-fall at an event in... [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 3:48 am
The Institute for Legal Reform (an affiliate of the National Chamber of Commerce) has released its 2007 State Liability Ranking Study. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 4:24 am
Larry Solum recommends the following article posted June 2d on SSRN: Malpractice Payouts and Malpractice Insurance: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003, by Charles Silver (Texas Austin), Kathryn Zeiler (Georgetown/NYU), Bernard S. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 4:23 am
In fall out from the Avandia story, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing yesterday on the FDA's role in evaluating drug safety. [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 4:14 am
Anthony Sebok has an interesting Writ column analyzing a lawsuit filed last week by the ACLU against Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., a Boeing subsidiary that allegedly helped the CIA move suspected terrorists from Country A that does not permit torture to... [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 10:12 pm
The New Jersey Law Journal (via Law.com) reports about an alleged ethics violation in the pet foods contamination cases. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 7:48 am
Anita Bernstein has a new article on SSRN: Tort Theory, Microfinance, and Gender Equality Convergent in Pecuniary Reparations. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 3:48 am
In an amusing twist to the diet-drug litigation, plaintiffs in Kentucky claim ownership in a winning race horse (via WSJ Law blog). [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 4:23 am
James Beck Mark Herrmann over at Drug Device Law Blog have a fascinating post, Anatomy of a Mass Tort. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 4:01 am
The California Court of Appeals (Third District) recently held that plaintiffs could base a class action under California's Unfair Competition Law on an inference of common reliance (as opposed to actual reliance): McAdams v. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 4:01 am
(William Childs at TortsProf hit this point on May 31st.)Tomorrow, more details concerning the trial...Addendum 6/5/07 - Part 2 now available at this link.Addendum 6/6/07 -- Flea, The Boston Globe and Morality in Journalism and Blogging [read post]
3 Jun 2007, 5:00 am
AM New York reports that a policeman who worked more than 100 hours of rescue and recovery work at Ground Zero has filed a lawsuit against the NYPD. [read post]
