A news article on the criminal trial from the West Virginia mine explosion provides a concrete example of how limits on trial evidence...

The much publicized peanut butter deaths (9 of them) provide another example of the intersections between tort law and criminal law. Last...

Science and law intersections continue to create possible new applications of old rules, and possible new rules for new products. For an...

Professional medical societies usually are not thought of as radical groups. Therefore, it’s especially notable that a large, global...

Software and data operate in binary code that changes very little, if at all, for borders (excluding homeland security issues for some...

GM’s long journey continues. This week it obtained arguably favorable outcomes with settlements with the government, shareholders and...

The US Chamber of Commerce and the  plaintiff’s bar (the AAJ) battle back and forth, and keep track of each other’s activities and...

The value of open courtrooms can be immense, as illustrated last year by the Garlock trial and most recently by an article in The Chicago...

Access to “big data” is important to multiple aspects of claiming and payments systems. For example, secrecy in data helps some health...

WOW!!!  One test from one drop of blood to see a person’s entire history of viruses with a high degree of reliability. This is not...

The Stern related opinions continue from SCOTUS. It will be interesting to see the impact for mass tort bankruptcies. A May 26, 2015...

Product liability and criminal penalties may soon come together for General Motors due to the ignition switch issues, according to a May...

Rand’s latest is out. See below: Bankruptcy’s Effect on Product Identification in Asbestos Personal Injury Cases This report investigates...

In the Graduate, Dustin Hoffman received one word of advice about the future: plastics. It may have been good advice for a recent...

It’s interestin to think about what’s ahead for litigation as consumers increasingly have access to self-ordered tests lab tests....

For toxic tort lawyers, a new interview of Gary Marchant provides notable insight into the major changes ahead for the future of toxic...

“More will die from cancer over the next two years than died in combat in all the wars the United States has ever fought, combined.” In...

Interesting reading for people on all sides of toxic tort and precision medicine issues:  a thoughtful, non-hysterical essay from...

Chicago is now home to the world’s largest litigation funding source. It is Gerchen Keller Capital LLC. which just announced raising  a...

As part of its Decision Memo on paying for some low dose CT scans for lung cancer, CMS’ published the data charts below, which are taken...