5358 ABA Journal Tort Law articles.
Even though an adoption agency apparently intentionally withheld information about severe mental illness among the parents and grandparents of a child from his adoptive family decades ago, it cannot be…
May 4, 2007 10:27 PM CDT
A video clip posted next to an opinion this week on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Web site has launched the high court into the Internet Age. Hence, the video, which…
May 4, 2007 6:23 PM CDT
Judge Switches Hats to Accommodate Con Who Wants to Get Hitched Before Doing His Hitch
May 1, 2007 11:02 AM CDT
Those words say the same thing in any language, but their legal meaning may vary drastically from country to country
May 1, 2007 9:26 AM CDT
Trial lawyers and tort reformers issued competing state rankings Wednesday.
A survey of general counsel released by a tort reform group found that general counsel perceive West Virginia…
Apr 27, 2007 1:08 PM CDT
An advocacy group for animals has drafted an amicus brief that argues pet owners should receive compensation for emotional distress caused by the loss of their animals.
Pet owners traditionally…
Apr 26, 2007 2:56 PM CDT
Juries in medical malpractice cases find for physicians more often than plaintiffs, a researcher told the New Jersey Law Journal.
Around 30 percent of medical…
Apr 26, 2007 12:47 PM CDT
A lawyer whose medical malpractice client claimed paralysis, then was caught on videotape walking with a cane, questions why defense lawyers waited almost two years to disclose the tape.
John…
Apr 26, 2007 12:33 PM CDT
Battling press releases today between two arch-enemies in the legal arena contend that the U.S. does, and does not, have a legal system in critical need of so-called tort reform.
…Apr 25, 2007 10:42 PM CDT
A $12 million settlement in a child abuse case and subsequent difficulty getting insurance reportedly is forcing one of the most well-known foster care agencies in the country out of…
Apr 24, 2007 6:50 PM CDT
The producers of bacteria-tainted spinach that sicked hundreds and led to a nationwide recall last year have reportedly settled for undisclosed terms the lawsuits brought by the families of three…
Apr 23, 2007 11:55 PM CDT
Grieving pet owners have filed at least 50 class-action lawsuits in federal courts, most of them in New Jersey, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
And that doesn’t include…
Apr 23, 2007 8:08 PM CDT
A Texas judge has ruled that state juries may not decide whether Vioxx manufacturer Merck & Co. withheld information from the Food and Drug and Administration.
Apr 23, 2007 3:12 PM CDT
A $41.5 million settlement finalized last month may be one of the largest to require outside directors to dig into their own pockets, the Wall Street…
Apr 23, 2007 2:03 PM CDT Plaintiffs lawyers, start your engines. Another release of Social Security numbers by a government agency has been reported, this one involving the Agriculture Department. As many as 100,000 to 150,000…
Apr 20, 2007 9:10 PM CDTDo As I Say, Not As I Do: Feds Post SS Numbers
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