#Damages

Kirk Hartley

Externalizing Costs of Failure – American Airlines Fails to Fly to London – No Back Up

A brief rant brought on by American Airlines failing to fly this morning to London. The usual song and dance – "equipment failure" and no...

Kirk Hartley

Structured Settlements versus Lump Sum Settlements – What are the Facts ?

Thanks to the Empirical Legal Studies blog post here, here is the link for a student paper asserting that there no facts to back up the...

Kirk Hartley

New Science – Creating a Test to Find People with Specific Genetic Defects to Create a Unique

This August 27 press release from Abbott and Pfizer exemplifies another way science is changing and will over time create new legal...

Kirk Hartley

New Science – Observable Brain Changes in Rats Subjected to Stress

More on brain rewiring and damages potentially recoverable in current or future tort litigation. This prior post provided some fact...

Kirk Hartley

Science, Intensive Therapies and Damages – New Issues Ahead ?

More on science and tort law. Suppose medical malpractice destroys a woman’s inner ear balance function to the point she can stand up...

Kirk Hartley

Tort Claim Damages – The Impact of Immigration Possibilities and Claims for Lost Wages

With respect to tort claiming around the world, one frequent comment is that claiming will not increase very much because persons from...

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