Monday, February 28, 2011

Comment on why we should not be so quick to believe that fear of malpractice litigation results in "defensive medicine"

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The Boston Personal Injury Blog has posted a short comment on a recent essay in Time co-authored by Drs. Jesse Pines and Zachary Meisel whi...

Public Citizen on Last-Minute Effort to Derail Consumer Product Safety Commission

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A few days ago, I reported on a last-minute effort to derail the Consumer Product Safety Commission 's attempt to launch a web-based pub...

More comments on the Supreme Court cases from last week

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Here are a couple of links to articles analyzing the two decisions by the Supreme Court on preemption from last week. The Abnormal Use Guid...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Pfizer settles case over medical experiments on Nigerian children

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Back in January 2009 I reported that the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit revived a claim filed under the Alien Torts Statute by Nige...

Comments on Williamson v Mazda

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As expected the comments on the recent Supreme Court decisions keep coming. Here is an update: Amanda Rice, of the ScotUS blog, writes: Ye...

This week's top stories

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This week's top story is easy to select: the Supreme Court's two decisions related to the concept of preemption. In Bruesewitz v. ...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Comment on the Supreme Court's decision on preemption in vaccine cases

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Here is a link to an article analyzing the Supreme Court's opinion in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth , in which the Supreme Court held that the Na...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Supreme Court evens the score on preemption; decides claims are not preempted in Williamson v Mazda

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We have been following Williamson v Mazda since it was argued before the Supreme Court last year ( here , here , here and here . You can l...

Comments on the vaccine preemption case

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As expected, there are a lot of reports and comments today on yesterday's Supreme Court opinion holding that defective design claims are...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Supreme Court decides design defect claims are preempted by vaccine act

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In a very closely watched case, the US Supreme Court ruled today that federal law shields vaccine makers from product-liability lawsuits t...