Updated: An April 6 blog entry by Alison Frankel includes a letter from Cozen O’Conner responding to Mr. Ostrager. Today’s oral argument...

Reminder: Monday, March 30, 2009, is the date for oral argument in the Supreme Court on the Travelers/Manville case. The appeal presents...

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...

Monday, March 30, 2009, is the date for oral argument in the Supreme Court on the Travelers/Manville case. The appeal presents important...

The cost of mistakes is daunting, and in my view, “tort reform” is not going to solve the problem of coping with large verdicts when...

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

Some corporations that made or sold various allegedly “toxic” or harmful products are today looking for and pursuing all kinds of paths...

A Mondaq article from the Deacons law firm provides an interesting example of how entrepreneurial claiming is changing the face of...

“Sponsored research” continues to be controversial. The topic will be squarely addressed next spring in a Friday March 20, 2009 session...

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

What to do with sponsored research – take it at face value, disregard it completely, or use it subject to considering whether to reduce...

Much of the strict liability theory taught in law school in 1980-1983, and still today, invoked a rationale of risk-spreading, and...

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,...

A prior post here noted that Canadian scientists recently criticized the Canadian government for continuing to support global sales of...

The Canadian Medical Association has come out with an editorial, described here, that calls on Canada to join with other countries to...

A new en banc 5th Circuit opinion from a strongly divided court grants the extraordinary remedy of mandamus to overturn perceived forum...

For some time now, I’ve been writing about potential changes in product liability law due to rapid changes in communication and science....

Business Insurance Europe is reporting 6 months of delay in implementing legislation for class actions in Italy. The delay moves the...

For those interested in “mass tort” issues, well worth reading is today’s National Law Journal article regarding the recent wave of...