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Liability
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Intellectual Property Law Blog
Limiting Liability in Clinical Trials: Non-Lawyers, Lawyers Beware
Clinical trials are the lifeblood of biotech. Finding the right service providers (CROs, safety, IVRS, consultants, contract manufacturers and many others), as well as the right clinical investigators and sites,…
Tilting the Scales
Liability for Baseball Foul Balls
By Jamie Ribman
It is a magnificent April day and the ballpark has that palpable air of excitement that only opening day can bring. For on this one day, everyone is still batting…
Litigation & Trial
Another Preventable Small Business Lawsuit Horror Story
A recent post at a prominent club / venue in San Francisco, DNA Lounge: Several years ago, there was some kind of scuffle and one of our customers who was dancing…
Aviation Law Monitor
Weren’t They Required to Have Insurance for This?
By Mike Danko
Accident victims or their families ask me this question a lot. Sadly, the answer is usually: "no." Pilots: Most states require drivers on our highways to carry a minimum amount of…
Insurance Law Hawaii
Post-Henkel Cases Consistently Find No Assignment by Operation of Law
Cases decided after the California Supreme Court's decision in Henkel Corp. v. Hartford Accident and Indemn. Co., 62 P.3d 69 (Cal. 2001) seem to universally continue the trend that an assignment of…
EvidenceProf Blog
Kentucky Fried Opinion: Hospital’s Appeal Reveals That Kentucky Courts Use The Wrong Test In Bias-Liability Insurance Cases
By Colin Miller
The recent opinion of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky in University Medical Center, Inc. v. Beglin, 2009 WL 102800 (Ky.App. 2009), reveals that Kentucky court are applying the wrong…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Baker on Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary
By joetort
Tom Baker (Penn) has a new article posted on SSRN titled Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary. While it doesn't directly discuss mass torts, its implications might be of interest…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
A novice driver’s third party liability insurance will be reduced to $200,000 if they drink and drive. An insurer will waive their right to breach their insured if they file a statement of defence
Under a Graduated Driver's Licencing scheme in Ontario, a novice driver must have zero blood alcohol concentration while driving, or third party limits are reduced from $1,000.000.00 to the minimum…
TortsProf Blog
Baker on Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary
Tom Baker (Penn) has posted Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary on SSRN. Here's the abstract:This essay explores how liability insurance mediates the boundary between torts and crime. Liability insurance…
TortsProf Blog
Scales Reviews Abraham’s “Liability Century”
Adam Scales (W&L) has posted his review of Kenneth Abraham's The Liability Century on SSRN. Here's a sample:In this Book Review, I provide an overview of Abraham's major themes, comment…