Sunday, July 26, 2015

Fiat Chrysler Hit With Record $105 Million Fine For Safety Defects

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Federal regulators are fining Fiat Chrysler $105 million for failing to acknowledge and address safety defects in a timely fashion. The civ...

Court upholds constitutionality of Florida statute that authorizes defendants' lawyers in medical malpractice cases to communicate directly with the plaintiffs' doctors without having to inform the plaintiffs or their lawyers

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As reported in the TortsProf blog, In 2013, the Florida legislature passed a med mal reform requiring claimants filing lawsuits to sign f...

Please help a friend of mine with her research

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My colleague Prof. Cynthia Bond is working on a article and she needs your help.  Here is her request: I am working on an article this su...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Florida Intermediate Appellate Court Rules Med Mal Cap Unconstitutional

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The TortsProf Blog is reporting that "[r]elying on the Florida Supreme Court's ruling that a cap on emotional distress damages in ...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Follow up on story re vaccines

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Just to follow up on my posts regarding possible liability on parents who fail to vaccinate children, here are a few update on related issue...

NY Court of Appeals reaffirms rule that immunizes dog owners for injuries caused by their negligence in handling their dogs

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Eric Turkewitz, of The New York Personal Injury Law Blog, has a very interesting post on a recent decision by the NY Court of Appeals (the ...
Monday, June 8, 2015

FDA panel recommends approval of controversial drug FDA has rejected twice already

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Almost exactly five years ago I reported on a German pharmaceutical company's attempt to market a drug claiming it helps treat a disord...

Possible liability of parents for denying medical care to child due to religious reasons, and issues related to vaccines, ... again

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I have posted a number of comments on the possibility of imposing liability on parents when they cause an injury to a child when refusing t...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Illinois Supreme Court holds proximate cause applies to intentional tort claims, which precludes claim for death caused by suicide but contradicts itself in the process

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Back in April I wrote a comment on an oral argument before the Illinois Supreme Court in an interesting case that asked the court to recogn...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Jury awards $3.5 million in case involving a wife getting exposed to asbestos in her husband's work clothes

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A Washington state jury has awarded $3.5 million to the estate of a woman who died of mesothelioma she contracted from exposure to asbestos ...