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Settlement
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Legal Profession Blog
Never Again
An attorney who had withheld from his client a substantial portion of a lump sum workers' compensation settlement and converted the money for his own personal and business obligations was…
Land Use Prof Blog
Sterk on Structural Obstacles to Settlement of Land Use Disputes
Stewart E. Sterk (Cardozo) has posted Structural Obstacles to Settlement of Land Use Disputes, forthcoming in the Boston University Law Review. The abstract: In many states, legal doctrine discourages settlement…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
A settlement damage clause does not extend to damage caused by excavation on an adjoining property
The appeal by an Insurer ("Aviva") from a decision finding it liable to indemnify the owner of a commercial building ("Engle") under an all risk policy was dismissed where the…
Drug & Device Law
Litigation – Has The Process Become The Purpose?
By Bexis
Richard Nagareda, law professor at Vanderbilt, is a really smart guy. Bexis got to know him while Professor Nagareda was one of the Reporters for ALI’s Aggregate Litigation Principles Project and…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Judge Hellerstein Rejects Proposed 9/11 First Responders’ Settlement
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
The New York Law Journal reports here. Judge Hellerstein indicated that the settlement formula was too complicated for each individual plaintiff and that the attorneys' fees (33% of each award)…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
9/11 First Responder’s Settlement Rejected by Judge
By joetort
On Friday Judge Hellerstein (SDNY) rejected the settlement that had been reached by lawyers in the 9/11 First Responders Litigation (otherwise known as In Re World Trade Center Disaster Litigation). …
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Nagareda on Pre-Trial as Trial in Complex Litigation
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt University School of Law) has posted 1938 All Over Again? Pre-Trial as Trial in Complex Litigation to SSRN.Abstract: This Essay for the Sixteenth Annual Clifford Symposium analyzes…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
WTC Litigation Settlement Link
By joetort
The WTC Settlement is now available online. I wasn't able to track it down until late last night. Here is the link, from the Bern Napoli website (that is the…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Nagareda on “Pretrial as Trial in Complex Litigation”
By joetort
Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt) has just posted an intriguing article "1938 All Over Again? Pre-Trial as Trial in Complex Litigation" on SSRN. Here is the abstract:ThisEssay for the Sixteenth Annual Clifford…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Ground Zero Workers cases set for settlement
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
The New York Times reports here and the New York Law Journal reports here.RJE