Persons injured by torts are involuntary creditors of the entity which committed the tort. And, today, we see increasing examples of ...

You have to love Judge Rakoff’s willingness to ask hard questions and make comments about public policy. His current questions and...

Karen Sloan’s NLJ article summarizes "gl global" advice from some senior lawyers with reason to know. The advice seems obvious, and yet...

Yesterday, Paul Krugman used his NYT column to tee off on the failure of the Republican budget "plan" to acknowledge that health care...

Depakote. It’s a drug for people with epilepsy, migraines and other miserable disease. It’s also a drug that causes severe birth defects...

The "tort reform" war cry drives me crazy. It’s a meaningless set of words used – usually – in deceptive way to mask the imposition of...

Foley Hoag’s blog on CSR and the Law includes this year- end "top 5" post. It’s well worth reading for an overview of big picture issues...

When I’m outside the US and involved in political discussions, a frequent question/comment revolves around the way US voters elect state...

Suppose a new a business is planning to undertake global sales of products that contain known or suspected carcinogens. Suppose also...

Delaware certainly does what it can to bring people and entities to the state to generate money for Delaware. This prior post noted the...

Another interesting chapter is unfolding in Motley Rice’s civil suit against alleged sponsors of the 9/11 attacks. The issue now headed...

Once upon a time, practicing law was local. Today, for some clients and lawyers, the issues are global. Indeed, they went global many...

Today’s post highlights an upcoming academic conference as it relates to the use of asbestos in developing nations. Perhaps some of you...

This recent NLJ article by Sheri Qualters caught my eye because of the headline: "Company president’s conduct renders patent...

Today is a soapbox day. In my view, a recent jury verdict in a car wreck case in Georgia nicely illustrates the very real tort system...

Here’s an invitation for readers to guest blog or comment on a question related to mass tort litigation, governments and substances that...

Now it’s west (from Chicago) to Australia, asbestos and the public company fiber cement business commonly known as James Hardie. The...

A hat tip to Business Insurance for an email alert on Friday advising that a Scottish trial court had just issued an opinion rejecting...

Here is an unexpected but interesting non-asbestos example of conflict of interest issues arising from efforts to resolve “mass torts”...

The point of today’s post is to focus attention on issues and topics that arise from relationships between insolvencies and...