The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
The Canadian tobacco trial continues, and Big Tobacco is trying emergency appeals to try to keep documents hidden under seal. The full story is here from Eye on the Trials.
From Canada and Japan: Yet Another Mass Tort Bankruptcy, and Possible Fraudulent Conveyance: Big Tob
A tobacco company is the latest entity to use bankruptcy to try to limit its obligations for a mass tort. This instance, however, is different because the bankruptcy is in Canada, ownership of the tob
The $15 billion or so Quebec class action verdict in Canada against tobacco companies was upheld late on Friday in a 440 page opinion, in French. It will interesting to watch the reactions of stock ma
Trial has finally arrived for the long-pending and much litigated Donovan class action against big tobacco in federal court in Massachusetts. For big tobacco, delay apparently is perceived as a frien