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17 Dec 2015, 12:16 am by tortsprof
The Fordham Law News just published a conversation among four torts professors: Ben Zipursky, Howard Erichson, Michael Martin, and Jed Shugerman. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 2:18 am by tortsprof
On Monday, the Court refused to take up the 9th Circuit's dismissal of an Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Protection Act case: The U.S. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 11:26 am by tortsprof
The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning is having a conference entitled Real-World Readiness at Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas on June 9-11, 2016. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 4:24 am by tortsprof
Doug Rendleman has posted to SSRN The Triumph of Equity Revisited: The Stages of Equitable Discretion. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 12:44 am by tortsprof
Barbara Peters has published The Warnings Compendium (available at Amazon). [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 1:44 am by tortsprof
Hart Publishing is delighted to announce the publication of ‘Hepple and Matthews' Tort Law’ by David Howarth, Martin Matthews, Jonathan Morgan, Janet O'Sullivan and Stelios Tofaris Associate Editor Bob Hepple We are pleased to offer you 20% discount on the... [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 5:47 am by tortsprof
Paul Dempsey has posted to SSRN his 1997 piece on breaking the limitations of the Warsaw Convention (which sets parameters for recovery for personal injury and property damage on international flights). [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 9:09 am by tortsprof
Eric Lindenfeld & Jasper Tran have posted to SSRN Strict Liability and 3D-Printed Medical Devices. [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 4:25 am by tortsprof
Nicholas McBride (Cambridge) has posted to SSRN The Humanity of Private Law-Chapter1. [read post]
4 Dec 2015, 2:30 am by tortsprof
From Roger McEowen (Iowa State Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation): The parties are friends and neighbors and are both farmers. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 4:47 am by tortsprof
Philadelphia hospitals started running simulations of high-risk incidents, such as child birth, and the results are encouraging: Such training has helped Penn cut malpractice costs by 26 percent since 2011, to $92.2 million in the year ended June 30, even... [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 1:09 am by tortsprof
The Department of Defense is expanding a program, already underway at eight facilities, in which conversations are encouraged between medical practitioners and patients about medical injuries. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 2:59 am by tortsprof
A Philadelphia jury has awarded $10.1M to a mother and son for the failure of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to diagnose bacterial meningitis in the boy despite several trips to the emergency room. [read post]
20 Nov 2015, 1:53 am by tortsprof
Benjamin Shmueli has posted to SSRN Legal Pluralism in Tort Theory: Balancing Instrumental Theories and Corrective Justice. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 12:59 am by tortsprof
On Monday, I posted about defendants attempting to use med mal tort reform protections to make it harder to recover for falls in hospitals. [read post]
18 Nov 2015, 2:11 am by tortsprof
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]
17 Nov 2015, 7:34 am by tortsprof
At JOTWELL, Sheila Scheuerman reviews Ronen Perry's Pluralistic Legal Theories: In Search of a Common Denominator. [read post]
16 Nov 2015, 12:28 am by tortsprof
Because of the hurdles many states place on med mal cases, it is beneficial for defendants to classify falls in hospitals as malpractice. [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 1:45 am by tortsprof
Last week, I reported that open-heart surgery patients at York Hospital may have been exposed to bacteria that could lead to infections. [read post]