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In the wake of the President's State of the Union address, the Illinois Justice Project had a short rundown of the 2008 presidential candidates' views on tort reform. The post should be interesting to anyone interested in civil justice issues. Thanks to the TortsProf blog for the link. To contact... -
The Day on Torts Blog has a link to an interesting article from the Economic Policy Institute (a non-partisan economic think tank). The article, Tort Costs and The Economy; Myths, Exaggerations, and Propaganda, includes findings that the US legal system doesn’t slow job growth, that tort reform won’t increase employment,...
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Today’s Washington Post contains a story documenting how the emergency room death of a teenage daughter and the resulting litigation and uproar led to a series of reforms that revolutionized the medical education system. That kind of information is not news to us. For years, trial lawyers have used litigation...
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This morning, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released its list of top safety picks for 2007 vehicles. This list looks radically different from last year’s list because the Institute required all picks to have electronic stability control, a feature that has a proven track record in helping avoid one...
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The last few years have been difficult for consumers on the federal level. More and more legislation provides immunity to various businesses for defective products or drugs, and new agency level interpretations of existing statutes have been interpreted as preempting more favorable state laws. But the last few weeks have...
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Texas Watch, an advocacy organization set out to improve consumer and insurance protection for Texas families, has published its Consumer Scorecard of Texas Supreme Court Justices. After reviewing all consumer cases from the Court’s 2005-2006 term, Texas Watch gave each justice the grade of “F.” In reaching those rankings, the...
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No, we’re not talking about cookies dropped on the floor. Think back to driver’s ed when you learned that you should follow two seconds behind the vehicle in front of you. Tailgating and aggressive driving are two of the leading causes of automobile wrecks. And now, police departments across the country...
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A recent article in the Detroit News describes General Motors’ costs due to medical errors and inefficiencies and GM’s effort to force reform in the Detroit area. The real attention-getter in the article comes from the introduction: Sam Shalaby is a car guy. He used to run a Delphi components plant in...
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For years, arbitration clauses have been popping up in the fine print of consumer contracts almost to the point where it is hard to find a consumer contract that doesn’t require mandatory arbitration. If you have a potential claim against a credit card company, bank, phone provider, architect, or even...
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Last Friday, the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Science, released a report titled The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public. According to the IOM’s summary, the report findings include: There is a perception of crisis that has compromised the credibility...