Mealey’s recently highlighted the latest example of financiers and entrepreneurial claiming creating change in the asbestos litigation...

The last 10 days have been notably adverse for product liability defendants. One big defense side loss arrived through the California...

ACI’s 22nd Asbestos Claims & Litigation forum, January 12-13 at the Union League of Philadelphia, is an event where law, science, and...

It’s not been a good run of days for asbestos defendants and other current and former sellers of alleged toxins. Yesterday,  under the...

Even the Financial Times picked up on the 18% increase in asbestos losses that A.M. Best predicted for insurers; its article was on...

A projected 18% increase in insurance company asbestos losses was announced yesterday by A.M. Best. Some of us are not surprised. Indeed,...

2016 has not been a good year for defendants in asbestos cases. The point has been illustrated several times. A prime example is the...

Resolute’s asbestos claims management is in the gunsights of many, for multiple reasons. Resolute just took a notable discovery hit from...

Elections of course bring changes in courts and legislatures, and various arguments and theories about what may happen. For tort system...

The Napoli Bern saga continues, and Bloomberg provided a refreshed description of the saga in a November 7, 2016 story titled Hell is...

In a sign of the times, Kevin LaCroix at D & O Diary published an October 12, 2016 post titled:  “Book Review: An Updated Global Guide to...

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...

As Professor Coffee pointed out in his new article, mass tort claiming has indeed gone global, as some of us expected. More evidence of...

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...

Formaldehyde – is it the next asbestos? An interesting article on the topic is online here; it’s by Michael J. Crist

Deja vu all over agains struck recently because asbestos-in-buildings litigation reared its head recently due to a New York Law Journal...

The growing breadth and depth of global class actions is explored in a September 20, 2016 post at D&O Diary. Riffing off of Professor...

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