Rising mesothelioma claims and expenses, exceeding projections. That’s the May 22, 2014 financial word from Australia’s James Hardie. An...

Cancer clusters is a term often used but little defined. The CDC has not defined the term, but it did issue fall 2013 guidelines for...

Need legal humor? Try today’s post at the Drug & Device blog – Bexis goes on an imagined vacation.

How often does a scientist change the law? Not too often, but there are some examples. One is described in the December 26, 2013 issue of...

“Increased transparency is the simplest, safest reform.”  Who said so? Professor Coffee. Professor Coffee’s wisdom could be applied in...

A May 19, 2014 IBAS article byLaurie Kazan- Allen reports that 5,000 Japanese rallied to support more asbestos compensation. The rally...

The NYT ran a weekend article suggesting GM’s lawyers are “a focus” of the ongoing internal investigation by Anton Valukas regarding GM’s...

The litigation industry battles continue on litigation forums and attorneys’ fees shifting for suits by shareholders against the...

Asbestos litigation remains widespread and virtually always revolves around causation issues. Today, however, there are more and more...

Recent forum non conveniens (FNC) decisions in Delware are harmonized in  a May 15, 2014 post on the Delaware Business Litigation Report....

The annual meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is almost set to arrive in Chicago. Pasted below is part of the press...

A notable new Delaware ruling on fee shifting is well covered in this May 10, 2014 blog post at the Delaware Corporate & Commercial...

Yesterday’s post pointed out the new solid tumor mutation test offered by Foundation Medicine.  The molecular biology revolution also...

GM now faces a new twist in its ongoing problems arising from the switch fiasco. The twist is a new lawsuit seeking to undo a prior...

According to a story yesterday, Goldman Sachs now has a $3.7 billion reserve for legal fees and settlements.  The finance industry is...

The molecular biology revolution continues, and is relevant to toxic tort claiming. Consider, for example, whether tumors such as...

Although it’s substantively irrelevant for this blog, I’ll point a UK story about a false cancer/mesothelioma diagnosis, for three years....

GM has been in the news of late as to the implications of its 2009 bankruptcy for the switch recall litigation. So, a brief overview of...

Yes indeed, I remember the days in the 1980s when associates were highly in demand, and we were working 2,400 billable hours per year,...

One specific example of  bankruptcy court secrecy run amok involves 2019 statements.  At long last,  an asbestos bankruptcy court (the...