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25 Jan 2015, 9:16 am
Tweet Tags: asbestos, New York, Sheldon SilverSheldon Silver’s ethical train wreck is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 6:42 am
More: The complaint (courtesy WSJ) alleges improprieties with income both from a real estate law firm and from asbestos legal cases. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 5:50 am
Donahue, you complain about lawsuits and announce the need for “legal reform,” i.e., laws that block everyday people from suing big corporations. [read post]
26 Dec 2014, 11:20 am
Over a career spanning more than three decades he has been involved in complex litigation involving thousands of clients challenging the mega-industries of: asbestos, tobacco and lead paint. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 12:38 pm
Amphibole asbestos, and most importantly, crocidolite causes malignant mesothelioma after a very lengthy latency period. [read post]
4 Oct 2014, 12:09 pm
Marxist historians Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale, and others, have attacked Bartrip for serving as an apologist for industry, and have suggested, in their publications, that Selikoff testified infrequently:= “[Selikoff] gave testimony in two of the early landmark legal cases, but thereafter avoided the drama of the courtroom and the role of the expert witness, not only because it would have been a drain on his time and made his confidentia [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 11:55 am
Fifth Avenue Chrysler Center, Inc,, 454 P.2d 244, 247 (Alaska 1969).ArizonaNo Arizona court has directly passed on innovator liability, but the federal district court in the Darvocetlitigation twice held that the theory was incompatible with Arizona law. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 1:53 pm
The tragic events that produced this case centered around 49-year-old Ms. [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 12:57 pm
Lowe’s Home Centers, Inc., 563 F.3d 171, 179, 183-84 (6th Cir. 2009). [read post]
15 Jun 2014, 10:36 am
’ This type of procedure does not allow proof that a particular defendant’s asbestos ‘really’ caused a particular plaintiff’s disease; the only ‘fact’ that can be proved is that in most cases the defendant’s asbestos would have been the cause. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 12:17 pm
June 27 at the Austin Convention Center, Room 15. [read post]
12 May 2014, 9:05 pm
If you doubt lawyers can be heroes, consider Rashid Rehman, gunned down after defying death threats to represent professor in Pakistan blasphemy case [BBC] Some asbestos lawyers may have reason to be nervous as Garlock documents pave way for fraud-checking [Daniel Fisher/Forbes, Legal NewsLine] Given consumer groups’ zeal for making litigation data public, they’ll support greater transparency in asbestos settlements, right? [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 10:24 am
The legal task now is to challenge the bankruptcy deal itself, which GM cut with full knowledge of this colossal ignition switch problem. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 2:06 pm
(Note that my partner Mark Behrens was asked to submit an amicus brief on behalf of the Coalition For Litigation Justice, Inc., Chamber Of Commerce Of The United States Of America, NFIB Small Business Legal Center, American Insurance Association, Property Casualty Insurers Association Of America, American Chemistry Council, And National Association Of Manufacturers.) [read post]
3 Jan 2014, 6:30 am
homeNewMember=&gid=1922050/ SUBSCRIBE: Workers Comp Resource Center Newsletter The post New Zealand Authorities Concerned Over Worksite Asbestos appeared first on Reduce Your Workers Compensation Insurance Coverage Costs with Timely Information for Employers | Work Comp Roundup. [read post]
19 Dec 2013, 12:20 am
The Centers for Disease Control... [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 8:30 am
The coal industry’s tactics mirror those of Big Tobacco, the lead and soda industries, the NFL, and pulp and paper giant Georgia-Pacific, which is conducting secret research and selectively withholding information to cast doubt on more than 60,000 legal claims filed by construction workers and others who Georgia-Pacific exposed to asbestos in the 1960s and ‘70s and are developing mesothelioma, a cancer nearly always caused by asbestos, today.Black lung, a… [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 5:40 am
He has also been a staff attorney at the Media Law Resource Center and a legal fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 6:59 am
As Professor Lonny Hoffman of the University of Houston Law Center testified in 2011, because it increased litigation, costs and was used in a discriminatory fashion, “there is a remarkable degree of agreement among judges, lawyers, legal scholars and litigants across the political spectrum that the 1983 amendment of Rule 11 was one of the most ill-advised procedural experiments ever tried. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 8:15 am
… Legal confidentiality protections should not be placed around good science. [read post]
