The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
Yesterday’s Sunday NYT included this front page article by Binyamin Appelbaum. The article presents the latest chapter in an ongoing series on litigation funding. This article focuses on litigation funding in divorce cases.
A sidebar note explains:
"Articles in this series — which is a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit journalism group in Washington, and The Times — are looking at the growing practice of investing in lawsuits."
Interesting times became even more interesting when the Financial Times published an August 21, 2019 article asserting that a sex tape took on a role in Burford Capital pursuing litigation. According
Usually, the Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) subpart of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce attacks class action securities suits as bad things, as illustrated by this February 25, 2019 article. And, litiga
Like so many aspects of commerce, the litigation funding industry includes both positive and negative factors and some bad apples. In a June 20, 2019 post at the Drug and Device Law blog, Bexis (Jim