Imagine – a smoke free country in Europe. That’s the 2025 goal of the Health Minister in Ireland, although the goal actually is not...

The March 2013 issue of For the Defense includes an interesting article by Thomas Newman of Duane Morris on choices insurers (and...

Trials are public events, right? The press and public can sit in and watch the trial, and the evidence becomes part of the public record,...

As described by Law360, leadership of the American Association for Justice continues to include string ties to the asbestos plaintiff’s...

As with all things cancer, genomics are increasingly important for understanding the how and why of mesotheliomas. Consider, for example,...

The Garlock liability estimation trial gets underway today before a North Carolina judge, as noted in the Journal. In short, Garlock’s...

(Image courtesy of Johns Hopkins. The arrows show the blood vessels constructed from stem cells). Researchers at Johns Hopkins continue...

Potential criminal charges certainly can be a game changer. Consider, for example, the new Flying J class action settlement in which it...

The Genomics Law Report  includes a new post assessing the possible strategies at play in the new lawsuits filed by Myriad regarding...

Some interesting observations in A WSJ op ed piece on rising disability claims and expenses. The author is Michael J. Boskin, a Stanford...

Dying while asleep is usually viewed as a peaceful end to life. But that’s not always true. Not so long, a man in Florida died asleep in...

Harms to lungs arise in many ways. A new global collaboration estimates about 2.5 million annual, early deaths from air pollution, which...

A May 2013 article from Science by Lacetera et al reviews evidence – as opposed to opinions and conjecture – and concludes that...

(Image courtesy of USGS) As science advances, new findings become possible and the unexplained may become explainable. The events might...

It’s always good to see big tobacco lose a trial verdict or an appeal. The latest loss is described here – in a California appellate...

In toxic torts, we meet way too many people with terminal cancer. They end facing barrages of objective questions about past exposure,...

Myriad has filed yet another patent infringement suit against BRCA gene sequencers. Patent Docs once again provides the specifics. #Cancer

The Quebec train disaster raises yet again the issue of underinsured or uninsured business operations. According to the latest story, the...

The Myriad decision was supposed to end Myriad’s stranglehold on testing for mutations of BRACA genes. The patent was illegal because...

2.5 billion lost years of life in a decade. Use of "pollution domes" to create a less polluted environment. Those are some of the...