Personal Injury Law

New featured column: Richard Nagareda on mass tort settlement
Prof. Richard Nagareda of Vanderbilt Law has made a big splash with his new volume Mass Torts in a World of Settlement, which argues that the fair and socially efficient resolution of mass injury cases is going to require revising...

Interview with Richard Nagareda on Mass Torts in a World of Settlement
This blog has featured Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt)'s new book Mass Torts in a World of Settlement in a previous post. Here is an interview of Nagareda sent to me by Rodger Citron (Touro) that may interest our readers: Vanderbilt Law...

Conference on Mass Litigation
ALI-ABA is running a conference on mass litigation in Charleston, South Carolina, from May 29-31, 2008 with a strong faculty of judges, practitioners, and academics. Some agenda items of interest to mass tort lawyers include sessions on Negotiating Mass Litigation...

Chief Justice Lambert forms Mass Tort and Class Action Litigation Committee to safeguard against potential abuses in tort litigation
Feb. 7, 2008 Chief Justice Joseph E. Lambert has appointed 12 Kentucky attorneys to a committee that will study mass tort and class action litigation cases and develop recommendations for the Supreme Court of Kentucky...

Second Edition of Mullenix's Mass Tort Litigation Casebook
Professor Linda Mullenix (Texas) is publishing a second edition of her seminal casebook, Mass Tort Litigation: Cases and Materials. The first edition was published in 1996, and a supplement followed in 2000...

Nagareda on the Globalization of Aggregation
Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt) has just posted a promising article on SSRN entitled "Aggregate Litigation Across the Atlantic and the Future of American Exceptionalism." Here is the abstract: This article analyzes the emerging phenomenon of trans-Atlantic civil litigation on an aggregate...

Mesothelioma Law Suit
Asbestos Exposure

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

$189 Million Settlement Reached in Slab Litigation
$189 Million Settlement Reached in Slab Litigation

Breakthrough Settlement Reached In Chinese Drywall Litigation
Chinese Drywall Litigation Breakthrough Settlement Reached