A May 29, 2009 law.com article by Mark Hamblett updates on this case. The update provides some additional legal commentary and indicates ...

This May 12, 2009 post updates a post of Wednesday, April 22, 2009 regarding pleural plaques and asbestos issues in the UK. The UK press...

Reading the trial judge’s opinion makes it plain he did not believe the Hardie Directors when they made denials or professed a lack of...

The James Hardie opinion/judgment is available here. The link also was added to the prior post containing links to the charges and a...

Pointoflaw’s Walter Olson notes here items related to an Irish article describing Lloyds of London’s Chariman as griping out about the...

‘Mass accident” cases produce tough issues on applicable law and teh forum for litigation. The 11th Circuit recently issued a per curiam...

Press reports indicate that a judgment is due out later today regarding the Australian “SEC”s criminal prosecution of directors of James...

When is a multinational at risk for “aiding and abetting” human rights violations? The answer is evolving. One case on the issue is...

A Swiss media article describes significant media and partisan attention focused on the first day of trial in an asbestos-related...

About the time I finished the post below on global choice of law issues, I received an email from the American Bar Association’s Mass...

A prior post on this blog described some of the global choice of law issues arising from the Madoff fiasco. One set of issues will...

James Hardie is an Australian building products company that made lots of asbestos-cement products, some of which were made from the...

The march of science continues, and so does its impact on tort litigation. For example, the American Bar Association’s TIPS section is...

A prior post on this blog described the UK government issuing a Consultation paper requesting views and information on, among other...

A continuing topic of this blog is exploration of the ways that advances in science will change tort litigation tactics and may change...

Popular wisdom has it that that the types of tort litigation we have in the US are abhorred by the rest of the world. The reality,...

How should governments and courts decide/define when persons have a condition that should warrant payment of compensation through tort...