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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Above The Law

JULY 22, 2022

The post Wisconsin’s AG Is Launching A Huge Toxic Tort Suit appeared first on Above the Law. Has anyone else noticed that their cheese is VERY water resistant?

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Day Class Torts Evening Class Torts Yesterday, the students of day and evening torts were honored by a lecture from the leading American expert on animal tort liability, Professor Luna.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Because these claims were based in tort rather than wrongful death, the Court of Appeals ruled that they accrued to the decedent at the time of her fatal injuries and the settlement proceeds should have been distributed to her estate, not to her surviving spouse. On appeal, the trial court was reversed. Continue reading

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Law 360

MARCH 1, 2023

The Third Circuit's recent dismissal of LTL Management's Chapter 11 petition due to insufficient financial distress — even as the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary defends thousands of tort claims — runs contrary to decades of precedent in mass tort bankruptcies, says Douglas Smith at Aurelius Law.

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Above The Law

JULY 28, 2023

The post AI Update: Sam Altman Isn’t In It For The Money, AI Companies Attempt Self-Regulation, Tort Law For AI appeared first on Above the Law. This week in AI news.

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HowAppealing

JULY 28, 2022

“Is 3M earplug bankruptcy the beginning of the end of mass tort MDLs?” ” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 18, 2023

Information is now available on the number of tort trials and jury verdicts in Davidson County, Tennessee for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 1883 tort cases filed in Davidson County (not including health care liability act cases) and 41 tort trials.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 12, 2023

Oxford University Press officially released the recent book authored by Dr Ugljesa Grusic (Associate Professor at UCL Laws ) titled Torts in UK Foreign Relations. The book offers a comprehensive account of private international law aspects of tortious claims arising out of the external exercise of British executive authority.

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Day on Torts

MAY 3, 2023

My newest article, “ Gender-Affirming Care Creates Tort Liability ,” as published in the Tennessee Bar Journal.

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Above The Law

MARCH 14, 2023

The post This Syracuse Law Professor Should Have Brushed Up On His Tort Knowledge Before The Casino Run appeared first on Above the Law. You can go to a fight. You can go to a casino. Don't start fighting at the casino.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Brian Kemp said it's launching a six-figure tort reform campaign in the Peach State, prompting the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association to say that it's also taking action to make sure courthouse doors stay open for Georgians harmed by the actions of negligent people and corporations. A political group linked to Georgia Gov.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 14, 2023

“Armslist Not Liable for Hosting Gun Sale Ads That Led to Purchases by People Who Used the Guns Criminally; The Seventh Circuit so holds, applying Wisconsin tort law, and not reaching the 47 U.S.C. § 230 issue”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” about a ruling that the U.S.

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HowAppealing

MAY 27, 2021

“Guido Calabresi Lauded at His Final Torts Class”: Yale Law School has published this report.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 11, 2023

Information is now available on the number of tort trials and jury verdicts in Hamilton County, Tennessee for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 797 tort cases closed in Hamilton County (not including health care liability act cases) and 27 tort trials.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“‘Totally Out of Control’ Attorney Fees in Mass Torts Dodge Appellate Review; U.S. The post “‘Totally Out of Control’ Attorney Fees in Mass Torts Dodge Appellate Review; U.S. ” Amanda Bronstad of law.com has this report on a non-precedential ruling that the U.S.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The post OAN Loses Breach Of Contract Case Against AT&T In CA, Refiles It In DC As Tort Suit appeared first on Above the Law. Well, they already had it drafted. Don't want to waste a pleading.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 4, 2023

Information is now available on the number of tort trials and jury verdicts in Shelby County, Tennessee for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 2164 tort cases closed in Shelby County (not including health care liability act cases) and 55 tort trials.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Justices For Tort Law Shake-Up”: Matt Fair of Law360 has this report (subscription required for access) on the brief for appellant that I filed on my client’s behalf yesterday in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. “Vein Filter Victim Calls On Pa.

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Above The Law

MARCH 28, 2022

The post Will Smith Writes Every ‘Cool’ Tort Professor’s Final Exam Question At The Oscars appeared first on Above the Law. I betchu Chris Rock won't do it again.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

The post Justices validate states’ right to take tort recoveries from Medicaid beneficiaries appeared first on SCOTUSblog. Share The Supreme Court on Monday resolved a narrow question of statutory interpretation under the Medicaid Act and expanded the ability of states to recoup health care costs from accident victims.

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Day on Torts

JULY 22, 2022

Where plaintiffs filed tort claims related to a car accident, and those tort claims were not compulsory counterclaims in a previous action filed by defendant against plaintiffs based on the same accident, the ruling that plaintiffs’ claims were barred by the doctrine of res judicata was reversed. In Albers v. Powers , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Among other things, Florida’s heavy reliance on the unadorned reference to “medical expenses” implies that the state can take a tort settlement directed at medical expenses, not only if they are future medical expenses that the state has not yet paid (and might never pay), but even if they are medical expenses not covered by Medicaid.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While the recent bankruptcies of Johnson & Johnson, Purdue Pharma and Boy Scouts of America have sparked debate about whether bankruptcy court is the best venue for resolving mass tort claims, bankruptcy's structural, procedural and substantive benefits make it a superior choice over multidistrict litigation, says Samir Parikh at Lewis & Clark Law (..)

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 16, 2022

In addition to information about court clerks, local rules, local forms, and more, each county’s database includes information about tort jury and non-jury trials. Among the free information included on the site is 95 databases, one for each county in Tennessee, which contain information about the court system in each county.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 31, 2022

“Ohio Supreme Court asked to overturn tort reform law that lowered Brook Park child rapist’s judgment from $20 million to $250,000”: Laura Hancock of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report. The Supreme Court of Ohio has posted online the video of yesterday’s oral argument at this link. Attorney Robert S.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 7, 2022

This post is an abridged adaptation of my recent article, Private International Law and Substantive Liability Issues in Tort Litigation against Multinational Companies in the English Courts: Recent UK Supreme Court Decisions and Post-Brexit Implications in the Journal of Private International Law. Muir-Watt (ibid) 386).

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Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2022

The number of COVID-related tort suits filed in federal court peaked in the first quarter of 2021 about a year into the pandemic and has been ebbing steadily in each quarter since, according to a new report by Lex Machina.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The post Trying To Find Love In Between IP And Torts? We all know Ohio is for lovers, but Massachusetts wants in on the action. This T14 Law School Has You Covered appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

APRIL 26, 2022

The post Alex Jones’s Lawyers ‘Splain To Bankruptcy Judge That Putting The Kibosh On State Tort Claims Is His Real Job appeared first on Above the Law. Bold strategy, Cotton!

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Day on Torts

MAY 24, 2022

Where the gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint was his tort claim for defamation seeking unliquidated damages, the chancery court did not have subject matter jurisdiction and the case should have been transferred to circuit court. In Lowery v. Redmond , No. W2021-00611-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. internal citations and quotations omitted).

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The truth is mass torts and class action lawsuits actually have quite a bit in common.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Tennessee’s tort and health care liability action trials came near to a screeching half for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. There were only 31 jury and 113 nonjury tort trials in twelve months, and only 1 jury and 7 nonjury health care liability cases tried during the same period. of cases). (We Sullivan – 1 (jury).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

United States , the 1950 Supreme Court case holding that the United States is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries sustained by members of the armed forces while on active duty and resulting from the negligence of others in the armed forces. United States. The case involves the so-called Feres doctrine, after Feres v.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There are obvious and nuanced differences between intentional torts and negligence. A seasoned attorney will help you understand the different standards.

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a ruling that allowed several individuals to sue food corporations Nestlé USA and Cargill over child slavery claims, limiting corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute. The unnamed plaintiffs brought their cases forward under the Alien Tort Statute. In Jesner v.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 16, 2022

Appeals Court Says Commerce in Arms Act Does Not Bar State Tort Claims; Five of nine Superior Court judges supported the Aug. Appeals Court Says Commerce in Arms Act Does Not Bar State Tort Claims; Five of nine Superior Court judges supported the Aug. “Divided Pa. The post “Divided Pa.

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