More on CMS paying for some low dose CT scans. CMS received two requests to pay for some low dose CT scans.  Ultimately, CMA agreed to...

Finding cancers early is increasingly possible, and it’s being done more and more often. Persons involved in toxic tort litigation and...

The world keeps changing quickly, and the changes include use of 3D printers to create things that are or may seem to be medical devices....

An update on the apparent wave of fraud in Super Storm Sandy litigation by property insurers and their experts and lawyers. In short, the...

Questions, questions. For the last few decades, medical study databases have been growing, and so more data is available for study. As a...

Data matters. Data can matter even more when its collected across more than one variable in a real time and real world context. Consider...

Genomics continues to move in to toxic tort litigation. Examples of the move and some thoughts on implications are set out in...

Be careful what you wish for remains an important maxim for lawyers, lobbyists and risk managers. The latest example arises as it appears...

Some say that change is the predominant theme in asbestos litigation. For 2014, some of the change arrives in the form of at least five...

Too often in litigation, unfair things are happening, but it’s difficult to get one judge in one case to pay serious attention because...

Fraud, fraud, fraud. Some days one would think the “f” word is the only word known to some in the insurance industry, and some of their...

Some post-trial comments from the lawyers in DePuy hip trial are included in an October 24, 2014 post at Torts Today. Note the measured...

No one wins them all. Congratulations to the defense in the DePuy hip bellweather trial. LAW360 has the story in detail. According to...

In a mass tort MDL trial, what evidence can/should jurors here regarding 1) other MDL cases involving the same product and 2) plaintiff...

Litigation today is global. Litigation also is like jello –  push in one place, and things happen in other places. The point is...

How will massive computing power change the practice of law? The ABA Journal for October 2014 includes discussion of IBM’s Watson...

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

When Mark Lanier is the plaintiff’s trial lawyer in a “first of its kind” trial, publicity is sure to follow. Coverage of the first DePuy...

LAW360 provides a useful summary of recent verdicts in pelvic mesh litigation. The outcomes vary broadly. Headlines are arising from a...

In the NFL concussion litigation, the federal judge overseeing the case has now ordered release of supporting financial calculations for...