Economists tend to view tort law differently than lawyers—or state attorney generals—and this difference explains both the advent of bankruptcy trusts in adjudicating class action liability claims and ...
The audacity of a N100m claim as damages, brought by the alleged mastermind of the Nyanya, Abuja, bomb blast, and a Boko Haram kingpin, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, seemingly justify the common saying that ...
Mazzocchio arises from two sisters’ allegations that they developed cancer from exposure to radioactive contamination linked to a former nuclear waste storage site in Missouri. The sisters sued ...
Alabama's liability claims costs surged 59% between 2020 and 2024, more than double the 23% rise in consumer prices over the same period, as increased litigation and larger settlements squeeze ...
In Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority, the government contends (and the lower courts agreed) that the TVA should be immune from tort liability to shield executive policy-making, even when the TVA ...
On May 11, attorneys general from 21 states wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s chair and ranking member, requesting federal liability protection to help mitigate the threat of frivolous ...
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Tort law is popularly associated with films like Silkwood, A Civil Action, The Insider, and Erin Brockovich, in which courageous, beleaguered plaintiffs’ lawyers battle the malevolent forces of “big ...
From Judge Tiffany Cartwright (W.D. Wash.) in Friday's Jan v. People Media Project: Plaintiff Almog Meir Jan is an Israeli citizen who was kidnapped on October 7 and held hostage by Hamas operative ...
Back in the dark ages of tort law a person injured by a defective product had no recourse absent privity of contract with the seller. That changed in the 1960s with the development of strict liability ...
In the classic theory of tort law, the law compels potential injurers to pay the costs of harms caused to others. This creates incentives for injurers to spend resources reducing harms. This is the ...
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