Mass Tort Litigation Blog tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-500233 2008-07-18T16:44:41Z A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network TypePad 460614http://www.feedburner.com Climate Change and the Tort Paradigm tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52879472 2008-07-18T12:44:41-04:00 2008-07-18T16:50:38Z Can notions of corrective justice or distributive justice inform discussions of global warming? Is tort law helpful as a paradigm in which to resolve global warming concerns? Professors Eric Posner (Chicago; picture left) and Cass Sunstein (Harvard; picture right) probe... Joe Tort Russell Jackson on Lead Paint Litigation tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52799696 2008-07-16T21:48:04-04:00 2008-07-18T17:18:34Z J. Russell Jackson (Skadden, Arps) has published Products Liability: Lead Paint Litigation in the National Law Journal. The article discusses the state of lead paint litigation after the Rhode Island Supreme Court's recent reversal of lead-paint nuisance claims. BGS Joe Tort Increase in Use of Drug-Coated Stents, Despite Past Safety Concerns tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52796802 2008-07-16T20:06:04-04:00 2008-07-17T00:06:27Z Article in the Wall Street Journal -- Use of Coated Stents on the Rise, by Keith J. Winstein. Here's an excerpt: Drug-coated heart stents, whose U.S. sales were hard hit over safety concerns in the past two years, appear to... Joe Tort Mark Herrmann on Alison Bass's Book, Side Effects tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52783074 2008-07-16T14:24:49-04:00 2008-07-18T17:34:34Z Book review in the Wall Street Journal -- The Plaintiff Was Unhappy, by Mark Herrmann (of Jones Day and the Drug & Device Blog; picture left). Herrman is critical of the new book, Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and... Joe Tort Kia Class Action Appealed to Pennsylvania Supreme Court tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52772252 2008-07-16T10:46:32-04:00 2008-07-16T14:46:51Z As reported by the Legal Intelligencer, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear the following four issues from the Kia class action in Samuel-Bassett v. Kia Motors America, Inc.: whether the fact-specific claim that the class representative's brake express... Joe Tort California Supreme Court to Review Punitive Damages Award in Ford Rollover Case tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52678418 2008-07-14T12:06:47-04:00 2008-07-14T16:07:02Z Article in Bloomberg.com -- Ford Gets California Review of $82.6 Million Rollover Verdict, by Edvard Pettersson. (H/t to AmLaw Litigation Daily.) Here's an excerpt: Ford Motor Co., the second-biggest U.S.-based automaker, will get a review from California's highest court of... Joe Tort New Mexico High Court Upholds Multi-State Class Action tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52544886 2008-07-11T10:05:43-04:00 2008-07-11T14:05:59Z The New Mexico Supreme Court issued an opinion recently upholding a 13 state consumer class action against Allstate alleging breach of contract. The Court found that the state laws in the 13 states were sufficiently similar to New Mexico law... Joe Tort Update on Kentucky Fen-Phen Lawyers' Trial tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52540392 2008-07-11T08:06:35-04:00 2008-07-11T12:06:46Z The Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports that Judge William Bertelsman declared a mistrial in the Kentucky lawyers' fen-phen case after the jury reported that they were "hopelessly deadlocked." Here's an excerpt: Cunningham, Gallion and a third defendant, Melbourne Mills,... Joe Tort Judge Overturns Punitive Damage Award in Prempro Case tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52492756 2008-07-10T08:25:50-04:00 2008-07-10T12:26:12Z Arkansas district judge Bill Wilson overturned an Arkansas jury's punitive damage award of $27 million to Donna Scroggin. The award included $2.75 million in compensatory damages. Judge Wilson based his decision on discarding plaintiff's expert evidence from Dr. Suzanne Parisian,... Joe Tort Canadian Class Action Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52368664 2008-07-07T17:43:47-04:00 2008-07-07T21:44:07Z John Beisner, Allison Orr Larsen, and Karl Thompson, all of O'Melveny & Myers, have published an article, Canadian Class Action Law: A Flawed Model for European Class Actions, in the most recent Federalist Society Engage. BGS Joe Tort Bhopal 25 Years Later tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52346480 2008-07-07T09:04:07-04:00 2008-07-07T13:04:34Z An article entitled "Decades Later, Toxic Sludge Torments Bhopal" in the New York Times today by Somini Sengupta, discusses the continuing aftermath of the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster. The failure to clean up the mess left by the disaster is... Joe Tort