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"Information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system."
Author: This Web magazine is sponsored by the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute Liability Project. The editor Walter Olson, an author and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute; and one of its blawggers is Ted Frank is the founder and president of the Center for Class Action Fairness and authors its blog. These two also contribute to Overlawyered.
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AP poll: most favor limiting med-mal awards
A "new Associated Press poll says most Americans support curbs on medical malpractice lawsuits. The AP poll found that 54 percent favor making it harder to sue doctors and hospitals for mistakes taking care of…
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Around the web, November 20
Moving beyond judicial elections? Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform has a new report out (PDF) on the subject of "Best Practices in Judicial Merit Selection" More: Gavel Grab. Earlier: here, here, etc. Latest from the…
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Is the Bell Tolling For Philip Morris? $300M Verdict for One Former Smoker
After getting the mammoth $145 billion judgment against it thrown out on the grounds that each member of Florida's plaintiff smoker's class had to sue separately, the suits are coming in, and the latest verdict…
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"Goodies for labor tucked away in health bill"
There are lots of them, and they're bound to encourage more unionization among health care workers and others, according to this op-ed by A. Kevin Troutman of Fisher & Phillips for the Houston Chronicle....
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Waiting for pleural plaques in the UK
The UK government has yet to announce a decision on compensating for pleural plaques other than "as soon as possible." [h/t GlobalTort]...
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A picture is worth a thousand words or several thousand dollars
Someone has kindly posted pictures of various asbestos-containing products. [h/t GlobalTort]...
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The Litigation Industry - 1 Lung Cancer and 17 Mesothelioma Lawsuits - A Week's Worth of Madison County New Asbestos Case Filings
From Global Tort, a summary of asbestos case filings from the week of July 27-31....
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Update on Bates White Paper on Impact of Asbestos Bankruptcies
From the Global Tort blog on how plaintiff's lawyers react when a defendant goes into bankruptcy. The article is here....
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Blumenthal to push mandatory hospital error disclosure
Prospective patients in Connecticut might be interested in the contents of the resulting public database, and we can all think of another group that might be more interested still. [Christine Stuart, CT News Junkie]...
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The Senate health care bill dodges liability reform
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the text of the 2,074-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, now the main vehicle for Senate action on health care. The language on medical malpractice liability…