Law 360

MARCH 23, 2023

The Florida Senate on Thursday passed a sweeping tort reform bill that changes the comparative negligence standards for jury verdicts, cuts the statute of limitations for injury cases in half, and eliminates one-way attorney fees and fee multipliers for all lines of insurance, sending the bill to Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

Justice Clarence Thomas’ opinion for a 7-2 majority treats the case as calling for a straightforward application of the plain language of the statute. Florida’s statute includes a formula that allocates $300,000 to past and future medical expenses. The case, Gallardo v.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The first was that the companies violated anti-terrorism statute 18 U.S.C. §§ 2333(a) & (d)(2). The statute allows victims of international terrorism to bring federal lawsuits against perpetrators and collect damages. The court rejected the anti-terrorism claims, as the statute in question requires that terrorism be international.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 9, 2022

Marstiller presents a straightforward question of statutory interpretation, addressing whether a state Medicaid program can take funds a Medicaid beneficiary receives in a tort settlement from a third party that injured the beneficiary. The question now is how much of the total settlement Florida can recover.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. She also threatened another woman with a carving knife.

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