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16 Apr 2014, 9:05 pm
Academics have underestimated sensitivity of medical system to liability pressures [Michael Frakes, SSRN via TortsProf] “Nobody has gone out and bought a new home” — Mark Lanier talks down his verdict knocking $9 billion out of Takeda and Lilly after two hours of deliberation by a Lafayette, La. jury [Reuters] Japanese drugmaker says it had won three previous trials [ABA Journal] Nursing home in living-up-to-its-name town of West Babylon sued over hiring male… [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 3:55 pm
Two weeks ago, I reported that a bill to remove the $50K minimum to request a jury trial had passed a key committee vote in the House. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 11:27 am
Suja Thomas (Illinois) has posted to SSRN Blackstone's Curse: The Fall of the Criminal, Civil, and Grand Juries and the Rise of the Executive, the Legislature, the Judiciary, and the States. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 4:55 am
New Zealand's Sir Owen Woodhouse has died. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 4:54 am
Here. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 8:38 am
Late last month, I reported that the Kansas legislature was going to conference committee to raise the med mal cap. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 11:20 pm
At JOTWELL, Nora Engstrom has posted "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself": How Physicians' Exaggerated Conception of Medical Malpractice Liability Has Become the Real Problem. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 11:20 am
On Monday, a jury in Louisiana ordered Eli Lilly and Takeda, a Japanese pharmaceutical company, to pay $1.475M in compensatory damages and $9B in punies for concealing cancer risks in the diabetes drug Actos. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 6:49 am
Do not pee in a co-worker's coffee urn. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 9:11 am
A med mal filing in California accuses a hospital of negligently placing a live patient in a morgue freezer and freezing her to death. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 5:55 am
The topic of the 20th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy at DePaul Law is "Judge Jack Weinstein's Impact on Civil Justice in America. [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 6:12 am
A bill has passed a key committee vote in the Louisiana House to remove the $50K minimum to request a jury trial. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 8:01 am
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31 Mar 2014, 9:38 am
Adam Zimmerman (Loyola-LA) has posted two pieces to SSRN. [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 1:42 am
Cathy Sharkey (NYU) has posted to SSRN State Farm 'with Teeth': Heightened Judicial Review in the Absence of Executive Oversight. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 1:38 am
The Kansas Senate and House have passed similar bills to gradually raise the non-economic damages cap in personal injury cases from $250K to $350K. [read post]
25 Mar 2014, 11:51 pm
Aaron Twerski (Brooklyn) & James Henderson (Cornell) have posted to SSRN Fixing Failure to Warn. [read post]
25 Mar 2014, 9:05 pm
Harris, you embarrass: “recreational burning of wood is unethical and should be illegal” [Sam Harris from 2012] Harrisburg Patriot-News series on flood insurance [TortsProf, R Street Institute on recent bill] Kansas, Louisiana, and Indiana named top states on property rights freedoms [Mercatus] Tweet Tags: endangered species, environment, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, oil industry, OklahomaEnvironmental roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of… [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 1:10 am
Michael Frakes (Cornell) has posted to SSRN The Surprising Relevance of Medical Malpractice. [read post]
20 Mar 2014, 2:01 am
Edmund Ursin (San Diego) has posted to SSRN Holmes, Cardozo, and the Legal Realists: Early Incarnations of Legal Pragmatism and Enterprise Liability. [read post]
