The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
The global spread of litigation continues as Fortis is now in the midst of a $1.3 billion settlement in Dutch courts. The settlement follows US courts pushing away securities suits in the US under rulings from SCOTUS regarding its view of the proper scope of US jurisdiction. As I described back in 2010, the inevitable result was globalization of litigation. The Fortis story is detailed in a March 15. 2016 post at D&O Diary.
As if to highlight my point about strategic lawsuits taking on more importance, this week ended with another voting machine company filing a defamation suit against numerous defendants who were part o
As noted on Monday, it seems there are more and more strategic defamation suits against media in the US. Perhaps the trend includes the UK? One can wonder based on this new article regarding Prince Ha
It seems 2021 is going to be quite the year for strategic, defamation lawsuits against proven liars. The articles by lawyers are flowing. With a hat tip to Steve Hedley for his January 31 post, note t