The future continues to arrive, and part of it is toxicoepigenetics. This week’s Toxicoepigenetics workshop in the DC area should be...

Last week brought $88 million of losses for insurers and others in “talc” verdicts. A recent talk by Peyton Manning to insurance...

Are you wondering about the future of toxic tort cancer litigation over the next few decades?  Consider these numbers from an article in...

Welding rods with asbestos are back at issue, with a new loss for the defense side in a mesothelioma case, if one accepts as accurate a...

A new publication on cancer includes wonderful graphics explaining how cancers escape the attention of the immune system.  A picture is...

A friend let me know the following humor appeared this week on The Insurance Insider, along with some praise for Praedicat and its...

Today is Mesothelioma Day. It’s a day to regret so many unintended deaths, and to invest in research to stop or slow the disease. It’s...

Deeply understanding interactions between genes is one of the next frontiers for molecular researchers. As a result of 15 years of work,...

Back in 2008, this blog started up because of my view that new and increasing intersections between science and law would drive many...

For today, some comments on investing in objective scientific data and translating science into law, as well as pointing to a useful...

Will insurers and analysts ever stop being surprised by the demographics and science of asbestos litigation? See below for a quote from a...

HarrisMartin reports, in an August 9, 2016 article (paywall) that a state court judge in Los Angeles expects that perhaps 2000 talc cases...

Walmart wants 8 chemicals out of products it sells, according to a July 20, 2016 article in Bloomberg.  Is this management of D&O risk...

Australia has a new genomics hub for sequencing DNA and tumors, as described in this July 14 story at its website. Vice-President Biden...

It appears Cardno ChemRisk may have been engaged to work for a talc defendant. Or maybe the company just sees a booming litigation topic...

The ubiquity of cancer is stunning, as illustrated at yet another British Open. The British Open of 2016 brought a truly great and record...

One hears plenty of assertions about “average” or “typical” recoveries in mesothelioma cases, but one always has to wonder about the...

How much change lies ahead for cancer science? Orders of magnitude. Below, from the Cancer Moonshot page, an excerpt from an example of...

A new ovarian cancer complaint cries out for genetic investigation. The facts suggesting that need are that the plaintiff developed...

Add uterine cancer to the list of cancers now at issue in “personal use talc” litigation” that some also refer to as “cosmetic talc...