The future continues to arrive, and part of it is toxicoepigenetics. This week’s Toxicoepigenetics workshop in the DC area should be...

The Johns-Manville chapter 11. A debacle of expediency and short-term thinking from 1992-1998, and then later “do overs.” In one of its...

Last week brought $88 million of losses for insurers and others in “talc” verdicts. A recent talk by Peyton Manning to insurance...

A new commentary article addresses the so-called “third view” of the “bare metal” defense; the commentary is from the defense side and is...

As Professor Coffee pointed out in his new article, mass tort claiming has indeed gone global, as some of us expected. More evidence of...

Are you wondering about the future of toxic tort cancer litigation over the next few decades?  Consider these numbers from an article in...

Welding rods with asbestos are back at issue, with a new loss for the defense side in a mesothelioma case, if one accepts as accurate a...

Plaintiffs continue to probe the limits of bankruptcy court injunctions, an effort that is even more interesting while the Second...

A post from defense lawyers evaluates the March 2016 decision in Davis v. Honeywell Int’l Inc., 199 Cal.Rptr.3d 583 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)....

Kenneth Ross at Bowman & Brooke has been writing useful things about product liability for a long time. One is “Effect of OSHA and...

A new publication on cancer includes wonderful graphics explaining how cancers escape the attention of the immune system.  A picture is...

As to asbestos, Europe is interesting in having been both ahead and behind of the US in addressing concerns and issues. Today, Europe’s...

Formaldehyde – is it the next asbestos? An interesting article on the topic is online here; it’s by Michael J. Crist

Why should mass tort stakeholders care about toxicoepigenetics?  The start of the explanation is provided in an article online here; it...

An interesting open access paper in the BJM discusses the process of and some values of a hospital using a multidisciplinary team to...

Deja vu all over agains struck recently because asbestos-in-buildings litigation reared its head recently due to a New York Law Journal...

The growing breadth and depth of global class actions is explored in a September 20, 2016 post at D&O Diary. Riffing off of Professor...

A friend let me know the following humor appeared this week on The Insurance Insider, along with some praise for Praedicat and its...

MesobanK UK published the chart as part of its September 2016 update. It’s good to see more progress in gathering samples and data. See...

How soon will we have ETFs for businesses involved in litigation financing?  That’s more or less the question in this September 27, 2016...