Insurance Law

"The Pop Tort"
Eric Turkewitz alerts us to a new blog, The Pop Tort. The Pop Tort is run by staffers at the Center for Justice & Democracy, which in turn is a non-profit "consumer organization...working round-the-clock to fight [the tort reform] movement....

Bad Faith As The Key To Tort Reform
We had an okay class discussion about tort reform recently in Torts. (At this point in the semester I think we’re all too exhausted for a heated or animated debate on the topic...

Ten Half-Truths About Tort Law
John Goldberg (Vanderbilt) takes on what he sees as ten items of conventional wisdom about tort law that don't stand up to close scrutiny in this SSRN posting (to be published in Valparaiso Law Review)...

Comparative Tort Law: India
Indlaw.com has an interesting essay about tort law in India. The author concludes: [I]t is quite obvious that there is no need to centralize the law of tort. Nuisance, negligence, defamation etc...

Tort reform: the 10-minute video
Kia Franklin over at TortDeform found this great clip of Mark Wahlstrom and Jan Schlichtmann discussing “Tort Reform” and debunking a number of the myths of tort reform...

Two New Salvos in the Tort Debate
Is it broke and does it need fixing? That is the perpetual question about the tort system in the United States. This week brought two further contributions to the debate, one proposing a system of early offers in tort cases...

Texas, USA
alleging the Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003 violates several provisions of the Constitution.