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Liability
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Food Safety News
U.S., China FDA Officials to Speak at Shanghai Food Safety Conference
By News Desk
Xu Jinghe, director of legal affairs for the China Food and Drug Administration, holds a position pretty much equivalent to Michael R. Taylor, the deputy commissioner for foods at the…
Risk and Recovery
West Virginia High Court Examines Number Of Occurrences Under Liability Insurance Policy
By Proskauer Labor and Employment Department
This year, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia issued an important decision concerning whether a carbon monoxide leak is a single or multiple occurrence under a liability insurance…
TortsProf Blog
Drunk Man May Sue Friends For Fall From Cliff
Here's a good one for your class on negligence: A California appellate court has held that a man who fell off a cliff while drunk can sue the friends who…
TortsProf Blog
Causation, Liability and Apportionment Law, Economics and Philosophy
The conference Causation, Liability and Apportionment: an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Law, Economics and Philosophy is organized by the BETA (Bureau of Theoretical and Applied Economics, University of Lorraine and UDS, CNRS).…
The Northwest Policyholder
Insurers Trying to Have It Both Ways on ‘First Party’ v ‘Third Party’
By Seth Row
Insurance carrier-side lawyers are celebrating the result in Cox v. Continental Casualty Company, a decision out of the Western District of Washington in which Judge Pechman held that Washington's Insurance Fair…
TortsProf Blog
Principles of Liability Insurance Conference
at Rutgers-Camden; details here: Download Call for Papers.--CJR
ContractsProf Blog
Call for Papers: ALI’s Principles of the Law of Liability Insurance
Call for PapersA Conference onThe ALI’s Principles of the Law of Liability InsuranceRutgers Center for Risk and ResponsibilityRutgers School of Law-CamdenFebruary 27, 2015The Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility is…
Louisiana Law Blog
How to Respond to a Liability Insurer’s Denial of Coverage
By Mark Mese
You purchased insurance thinking that if you are sued or subject to a demand for money or damages your insurance company will defend and indemnify you. Unfortunately, insurers deny many…
PropertyProf Blog
Foreclosing Lenders Turning to Courts for Protection?
By Chris Odinet
The conventional wisdom has been that mortgage lenders should, when possible, avoid foreclosing through the judicial process since involving the courts can result in long delays and the incurring of…
Education Law Prof Blog
From the School Yard to Cyberspace: A Review of Bullying Liability
By Derek Black
Elizabeth M. Jaffe's roundup of the caselaw and literature on cyberbullying, From the School Yard to Cyberspace: A Review of Bullying Liability, is now available on westlaw at 40 Rutgers…