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1 Jun 2011, 1:28 am
If anyone has been wondering what Jonathan Cardi (Wake Forest) has been doing lately, I have an answer. [read post]
7 Jan 2019, 4:32 am
Couple breaks up. [read post]
15 Jul 2020, 6:15 am
Cristina Tilley has posted to SSRN The Tort of Outrage and Some Objectivity about Subjectivity. [read post]
6 Jan 2007, 3:05 pm
A note from Rick Peltz (UALR):Shameless self promotion, but sometimes one must. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 4:44 am
A new SSRN paper attempts to predict the likely consequences of increased disclosure of medical errors, providing an interesting counterpoint to the frequent arguments that telling patients (and apologizing) about mistakes will reduce malpractice claims. [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 5:38 pm
A while back, I posted about a dispute regarding the impact of litigation on research, in particular in the context of the neurological effects of welding rods. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 4:59 am
Last week, I posted about the Crimtorts symposium on February 25, 2008 at the Widener University School of Law. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 5:14 am
The Hawaii House Consumer Protection Committee holds hearings today on HB 1992, a bill that would cap non-economic damages in medical malpractice actions at $250,000, and also require that economic damages be allocated based upon proportionate percentages of negligence. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 1:34 pm
In a decision released last week, the Oregon Supreme Court has set a presumptive 4 to 1 ratio for punitive damages in economic injury cases: "[A]s a very general rule of thumb, the federal constitution prohibits any punitive damages award... [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 11:48 am
Back in January at AALS, I ran into Professor Seth Chandler (Houston) presenting a poster on computer models of negligence. [read post]
14 Mar 2009, 4:49 am
Keith Hylton (Boston) has posted on SSRN Tort Duties of Landowners: A Positive Theory. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 2:00 am
Samuel Bray (UCLA) has posted "Announcing Remedies" to SSRN. [read post]
23 Nov 2021, 3:02 pm
Donal Nolan has posted to SSRN Injunctions. [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 9:13 am
This Insurance Journal article describes some of the recent revelations in the investigation into the fatal ComAir plane disaster in Kentucky last August, and discusses them in the context of the airline's exposure for compensatory and punitive damages. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 3:55 am
The New York Times reports on the Katrina-insurance mess:Insurance companies may have paid out $11 billion to Louisianians in the two years since Hurricane Katrina, but they have also become a new villain in the tales people tell about the... [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 7:40 am
The opinion is here [PDF]. [read post]
30 Dec 2008, 6:01 am
According to the WSJ Law Blog, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a ninth grade cheerleader to bring a negligence claim against her fellow student cheerleader for allegedly failing to properly spot her during a stunt.... [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]
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 2009, 6:29 am
Jean Eggen (Widener) has posted on SSRN The Mature Product Preemption Doctrine: The Unitary Standard and the Paradox of Consumer Protection. [read post]
