The insurance industry continues to create new structures to complicate and limit the risks of paying defense or indemnity for third...

This article from a British newspaper reports that the UK government is trying to cut a deal with unions 1) to pay for more scientific...

Here is the online image of Munich Re’s recent, comprehensive report on asbestos litigation, Asbestos: Anatomy of a Mass Tort. The 112...

A scheme of arrangement is a UK term that applies to a variety of legal proceedings, including proceedings in which a solvent insurer...

Significant mass tort bankruptcy issues are being contested as the W.R. Grace asbestos chapter 11 case moves deeper into its phased...

The D + O Diary, a blog on D + O liability, includes this post about a new German law that seeks to change behavior of corporate officers...

Suppose the following. You are the General Counsel of a company that’s been sued in a few hundred asbestos cases. You’ve timely notified...

An interesting post at the Adams Drafting blog points out various issues regarding the meaning of the word “occurrence” in commercial...

Monday, March 30, 2009, is the date for oral argument in the Supreme Court on the Travelers/Manville case. The appeal presents important...

“Sponsored research” continues to be controversial. The topic will be squarely addressed next spring in a Friday March 20, 2009 session...

Much of the strict liability theory taught in law school in 1980-1983, and still today, invoked a rationale of risk-spreading, and...

How should governments and courts decide/define when persons have a condition that should warrant payment of compensation through tort...