The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
Business Insider brings together 12 powerful charts on the death toll and other harms from tobacco. Some say tobacco will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century. It’s a shame most governments fail to focus on the actual, biggest global terrorists.
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