Personal Injury Law

Calnan on Duty in Tort Law
Alan Calnan (Southwestern Law School) has posted Duty and Integrity in Tort Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The tort concept of duty lacks integrity in virtually every popular sense of that term...

Trademarks & Cybersquatting: Interview with Alan Drewsen
Today via phone we have with us Mr. Alan Drewson. Alan is the executive director of INTA. Good afternoon, welcome to the program, Alan.

Brownstein on Heller & Self-Defense in Tort & Criminal Law
Alan E. Brownstein (University of California, Davis - School of Law) has posted The Constitutionalization of Self-Defense in Tort and Criminal Law, Grammatically Correct Originalism, and Other Second Amendment Musings (Hastings Law Review, Vol...

On the Desirability of the Alien Tort Statute
Judicially made corporate human rights litigation is a luxury we can no longer afford. This is the conclusion of an op-ed (Rights Case Gone Wrong) published yesterday in the Washington Post by two leading American international law professors, Curtis Bradley (Duke) and Jack Goldsmith (Harvard)...

TORT REPORT (53): Tort decisions of COA from Oct. 31, 2008
On Oct 31, 2008, the Kentucky COA issued the following tort and insurance law decisions. You will have to click on the minutes, scroll to the decision and click on the link to the AOC decision for full text...

"Tort Laws that Save Americans the Most Money"
Source: Pacific Research Institute The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, today released Tort Law Tally, a new report identifying which state tort reforms reduce tort losses and tort insurance premiums the most...

Torts
Introduction to Torts

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

Boat Crash
Police officer awarded $100,000 settlement after crashing into bridge piling while on duty.

New York City
$1.5 million settlement after a family of four was killed by an off duty drunken police officer.

Motorcycle Cop Accident
Erie police officer awarded $150,000 workers compensation settlement after sustaining serious injuries while on duty.