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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
Apr 9, 20121 min read
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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
Oct 21, 20091 min read
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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
Aug 28, 20092 min read
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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
Aug 22, 20092 min read
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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
Aug 11, 20094 min read
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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...

Kirk Hartley
Aug 9, 20093 min read
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