The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
Here is a detailed review of 2009 securities class action, courtesy of Kevin LaCroix at the D & O Diary. Amazing, but not suprising, to see how much litigation is generated by companies that do not make anything tangible and instead are essentially finance companies.
Over the last couple of years, defense oriented commentators have used the meme “event driven securities litigation” as part of complaining about the increasing volume of class action litigation. From
A detailed data driven study of securities lawsuits before and after Morrison is the subject of a new paper by Professor Davidoff Solomon and colleagues. A summary is online in a November 21, 2018 art
Various pundits are saying 2019 will include a surge in litigation. In that vein, it will be interesting to see if adverse financial outcomes for M&A deals and IPOs result in state court class actio