The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
This past weekend, US television magazine 60 Minutes added its voice to the dialog about the absence of criminal prosecutions for the Wall Street fiasco. The transcript is here from interviews with 2 "whistleblowers" – one senior executive from Countrywide and a less senior Chase executive.
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