Torts Blog

Here is a link to a short discussion among readers of the ABA Journal.com.  You can skip the story which does not add anything you don't...

Bad news for victims of injuries in Pennsylvania.  Gov. Tom Corbett today signed the ”Fair Share Act,”  which does away with joint and sever...

Not suprisingly, pro tort reform groups are crying foul about the publicity generated by the documentary Hot Coffee.  Here is a link to a  r...

Joanne Doroshow, of the Center for Justice and Democracy, has an article on tort reform and the movie Hot Coffee in the Huffington Post here...

Here is a link to an interview with the director of the documentary Hot Coffee which premiers on HBO this week.  (Thanks to Abnormal Use bl...

Big news out of the Supreme Court this week: The Court issued a decision in the highly awaited consolidated cases PLIVA v. Mensing (09-993)...

Here is the most recent case in a long line of bad cases that hold that a criminal defendant does not have a right to sue his or her attorn...

West Virginia’s Supreme Court recently reaffirmed the constitutionality of the state's cap on awards for pain and suffering in medical l...

A new report by a hospital accreditation body estimates that so-called wrong site surgeries take place 40 times each week in the nation'...

As part of its health-care bill, the Obama Administration included money for grants to states to launch projects aimed at curbing costs asso...