The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
The ongoing Canadian tobacco trial is being covered – in detail every day – by a blog – here. The blog is known as: Eye on the Trials.
The blog is sponsored by a public interest group known as ASPQ, which appears to be involved in far more than just tobacco.
Many lessons here for tobacco in particular, and defendants in general.
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