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The Right Coast
Stuttering study litigation ends Tom Smith
Fairly appalling case of human experimentation.
North Carolina Product Liability Blog
Causation Queries & Pre-complaint Negotiation
By Law Office of D. Hardison Wood
We recently settled a case involving a product defect with a peculiar mechanism of injury. I say peculiar because until our case, the defendant manufacturer purportedly had never received a…
Louisiana Law Blog
The Document Retention Policy – An Important Part of Your Business’s Operations
Many businesses have come to realize the value of having a document retention/ destruction policy as part of their regular operations. A policy that is well planned and consistently followed will…
TortsProf Blog
Top 10 Torts Downloads on SSRN
Listed below are the top 10 downloads for papers posted on SSRN from June 2, 2007 to August 1, 2007 in the Journal of Torts & Products Liability Law :Rank…
TortsProf Blog
Bizarro Bifurcation
In a reversal of trial order that puts me in a Seinfeld mood, the plaintiffs in a roof-collapse case have been awarded $1.2 million in damages (see also Theme Law). …
Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog
4 questions to ask yourself before filing any lawsuit
Mike Dillon, General Counsel for Sun Microsystems, Inc., published a great blog called The Legal Thing. In a blog post entitled On Litigation...(Azul), Mr. Dillon shared his "four principals" for…
TortsProf Blog
Small Businesses Maybe Not So Concerned About Liability
Business Week has a piece about small businesses and their feelings about litigation risk, framed by the pants lawsuit. It notes the disjunction between tort reform advocates' arguments that tort…
InsureReinsure
Private Equity Firms Brace for Expected Increase in Litigation
The results of a recent survey conducted by Marsh, a branch of the world's largest insurance broker Marsh & McLennan, suggest that the private equity sector is bracing itself for…
Rush on Business
Business Strategies for Litigation
By Rush Nigut
If you are in business long enough it is likely you will eventually face a dispute with a customer, employee or another business. Are you prepared to face the challenge?…
TortsProf Blog
Indictments in Silicosis Litigation
The WSJ Law Blog has the details. Short version:Here’s what happened, according to the DOJ: Hoeffner, attempting to settle in bulk roughly 1,000 silicosis lawsuits he brought against companies, met…