The courts holding “rested on the underlying reality the PLRA reflects extensive congressional regulation of ...

The Hair Relaxer MDL is now focusing on bellwether cases to test claims that chemical relaxers cause cancers. After extensive discovery and expert analysis, the court will narrow the cases for trial, ...

An explanation of directors and officers (D&O) insurance policies, including the key types of D&O liability insurance coverage, double anchor policies, extended reporting coverage, common policy ...

It‘s tragic when a parent or guardian is falsely blamed for a child’s injuries. While any miscarriage of justice is disconcerting, erroneous convictions in child abuse cases can be catastrophic. Not ...

Eric M. Fish of Hooper, Lundy & Bookman PC discusses the growing use and benefits of ambient scribing in health care, used to ...

The litigation funding market in England has grown significantly over the past decade, enabling mass tort litigation and multi-claimant litigation, such as competition and Environmental, Social, and ...

In addition to the question of plaintiffs' core general-causation experts, Judge Wolfson recommended that the Court allow science and geology experts to testify that J&J talc contained trace or ...

The ruling by the state's highest court abolished the "tort of alienation of affections" by overturning a legal precedent from a 1923 decision by the Court in the case Birchfield v. Birchfield, which ...

When a lawsuit involves both inverse condemnation claims and other tort claims, trial courts often bifurcate the proceedings. A recent ...

As discussed in a prior Saiber Construction Law Column, in New Jersey, the “economic-loss doctrine” bars tort claims when the ...

The opinion explains an August decision in which justices ordered the District Court in Taos County to dismiss a lawsuit tied to a divorce.

The New Mexico Supreme Court has ended a little-used kind of lawsuit that let a spouse seek damages from a third party for ...