A June 24, 2019 post at ThePopTort points out that the Supreme Courts of both Kansas and Oklahoma recently struck down damages cap statutes in their states. ...

In the late 1980s, we did a 50 state survey through lawyers around the country. Today, they still exist, in some instances.  This one is a 50-State Survey of...

A new “toxic tort” blog (by Bill Ruskin) launched with an interesting mini-review of the use of Value Assurance Plans as a means for defendants to resolve cl...

Comparing mesothelioma cases damages in the UK to similar damages in the US usually produces some amazement. A January 13, 2017 UK trial court ruling is onli...

Advocates of damages caps in medical malpractice cases seldom, if ever, confront the gross unfairness of leaving on one person the economic burden of a medic...

Transparency as to class action damages is starting to move forward with respect to the NFL concussion litigation.  As previously noted, Judge Brody ordered ...

A brief rant brought on by American Airlines failing to fly this morning to London. The usual song and dance – "equipment failure" and no back up plane avail...

Thanks to the Empirical Legal Studies blog post here, here is the link for a student paper asserting that there no facts to back up the practice of promoti...

This August 27 press release from Abbott and Pfizer exemplifies another way science is changing and will over time create new legal issues as to remedies for...

More on brain rewiring and damages potentially recoverable in current or future tort litigation. This prior post provided some fact patterns and legal issues...

More on science and tort law. Suppose medical malpractice destroys a woman’s inner ear balance function to the point she can stand up only when supported by ...

With respect to tort claiming around the world, one frequent comment is that claiming will not increase very much because persons from developing nations may...