Several industrial companies have recently implemented transactions to permanently divest legacy contingent liabilities. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's even worse than you think. Out-of-control lawsuits are shutting down medical practices, killing businesses and costing the economy $200 billion a year. For two and a half weeks this winter, Dr.

JURIST contributing editor Allen Rostron of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law discusses recent developments in lawsuits seeking to impose tort liability for negligent sale of ...

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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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Senate has given key approval to a bill that would reduce liquor liability costs for bars and restaurants. However, they did it by attaching their entire tort ...

When sued for a common-law tort, the United States government enjoys the benefit of a statutory exception to liability that prevents judicial second-guessing of executive policy decisions. The ...

Mass tort bankruptcies dominated in 2022, but the year ended with more questions than answers. In the high-profile talcum powder bankruptcy, Johnson & Johnson's newly created LTL Management ...

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 ...

Last week and this, I've been serializing my Large Libel Models? Liability for AI Output draft. For some earlier posts on this (including § 230, disclaimers, publication, and more), see here; one ...