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Third Party Liability
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Pennsylvania Law Monitor
When you are injured at work you may have more than a workers compensation case!
Pennsylvania Law does not allow you to sue your employer for negligence. Therefore if you are injured at work as a result of fault of your employer, the only benefits…
International Law Prof Blog
New Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Completed
Negotiations over the final text of a new multilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) have been completed in Tokyo. The negotiations included all 27 European Union (EU) Member States, plus 10…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship: BJELL
Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor LawVolume 31, Number 1, Winter 2010ArticlesBrishen Rogers, Toward Third-Party Liability for Wage Theft, p. 1.Roger C. Hartley, Freedom Not to Listen: A Constitutional Analysis…
Legal Profession Blog
Third Party Liability
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has held that a lawyer who had drafted a series of wills for his client that contravened a judgment in a prior divorce case may be…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Liability to 3d Parties for Minnesota Legal Malpractice
Hinshaw reports that the Minnesota Supreme Court has determined the rules for legal malpractice liability to third parties, in a business setting. In New York, liability is generaly limited to…
TortsProf Blog
Becker & Posner on Social Host Liability (And Third Party Liability Generally)
Over at the Becker-Posner Blog, Professor Gary Becker and Judge Richard Posner have an interesting commentary on third party liability. Judge Posner kicks it off with "Should Hosts Be Liable…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Liability to Third Parties in Legal Malpractice
Here is an interesting blog blurb by Cassandra Crotty on two different state views on lawyer's liability to third-parties [no privity - they were not clients. One is from Illinois…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
False Assurrances and Legal Malpractice
In today's New York Law Journal, Kenneth Block and Jeffrey Steiner report on the liability of attorneys, to non-clients, based upon false assurrances. They write: "As a result of recent…
TortsProf Blog
Updated: A MySpace Follow-on Suit
Thanks to Matt in the comments to today's earlier post for pointing out that the alleged third-party criminal/torfeasor is himself considering a suit against MySpace. (Note that though the Time…
TortsProf Blog
MySpace Sued for Third-Party Tort
In an interesting case with challenging duty and legal cause issues (along with a fundamental question of what ordinary care means in the context), incredibly (and inexplicably) successful web space…