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4 Mar 2009, 5:36 am
Morning Edition today had an interesting story on the civil litigation challenges facing the families of people injured by tainted milk in China. [read post]
18 Nov 2015, 2:11 am
Stephen Sugarman has posted to SSRN Misusing the "No Duty" Doctrine in Torts Decisions: Following the Restatement (Third) of Torts Would Yield Better Decisions. [read post]
22 Aug 2006, 7:52 am
FDA and MIT announced a collaboration, building on systems designed to anticipate infectious disease spreads, to predict problems with prescription medications:The current system relies on the largely manual assessment of reports voluntarily submitted to the FDA, sometimes months or years... [read post]
27 Oct 2006, 8:49 am
The receivers coach for the Dallas Cowboys has sued McDonald's after finding a six-inch rat in his salad.The dead rodent, believed to be a juvenile roof rat, was about 6 inches long and was found on its back with its... [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 2:03 pm
An interesting update in the lawsuit involving a heckler at a Rangers/A's game, a thrown chair by Rangers reliever Frank Francisco, and the chair hitting the heckler's wife:According to the East Bay Express, Craig Bueno, the screamer who pissed off... [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 10:24 am
The Pump Handle has an interesting post connecting Exxon-funded research with its recent (relative) win on punitives.... [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 1:36 pm
As indicated at the earlier Zyprexa documents conference, David Egilman (who until recently was serving as an expert for the plaintiffs in that litigation) has indeed said he'll take the 5th if deposed. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 6:30 am
Utah is considering upping the standard of proof for plaintiffs in malpractice claims against emergency medical providers to clear and convincing evidence. [read post]
16 Jun 2007, 3:36 am
Looks like plaintiffs' lawyers are pretty enthused about the Avandia possibilities. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 7:03 am
The Toronto Star reports that at least three passengers who sat near Andrew Speaker, the TB traveler, plan to file suit in Canada next week. [read post]
30 May 2008, 11:30 am
So says the Legal Times in this article. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 1:53 pm
A few months back, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer wrote on Slate about potential conflicts of interest, addressing doctors who had received funds from pharma talking about SSRIs on public radio. [read post]
1 Aug 2008, 3:57 pm
Details here, with interesting quotes about the import, or not, of the de-anonymizing. [read post]
1 Jan 2009, 4:45 am
Just in time for the AALS panel on Foreign Tort Law Beyond Europe, Robert Leflar (Arkansas) has posted on SSRN two pieces about regulating the Japanese medical profession. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 6:57 am
I'm rather late to linking to it, but Walter Olson's Forbes piece is an excellent overview of the unintended consequences of the well-intentioned CPSIA. [read post]
7 May 2015, 5:09 am
Ronen Perry (Haifa) has posted to SSRN Pluralistic Legal Theories: In Search of a Common Denominator. [read post]
15 Aug 2006, 4:55 am
Poh-tay-toe (from NAM):Well, here's a good piece from John Stossel on the topic. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 12:30 pm
Continuing the series of checking out presidential contenders' websites for any mention of tort reform or the like (previously: Obama and McCain, neither of whom said anything about it), today I wandered the website of the Hillary Clinton exploratory committee.... [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 10:21 am
In a move that will surprise precisely nobody, the family of the young woman killed on the Mind Scrambler at Playland plans to sue the municipally-owned park. [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 8:38 pm
The transcript from today's argument is here [PDF]. [read post]
