NEWS TO END THE WEEK
In the ever contentious area of TORT REFORM, an Oklahoma senator aims to halve contingency fees (although his state’s current fee allows up to 50%).
Billion-Dollar Verdicts are a thing of the past, according to Bloomberg News.
And the nation’s preeminent medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine, has announced a change in its policy regarding disclosure of its [...]
Equinox Health Club Not Liable for Attack on Loud-Mouthed Spinner
New York County Supreme Court Justice Carol R. Edmead has issued a decision in the case of the spin class goofball who wouldn’t shut up when asked and got his just reward. You may remember reading about this incident back in August of 2007. Plaintiff and another patron were in the same spin class in an Upper [...]
Escaped Tiger Enters the Torts Ring
This would be today’s entry in the Dept. of Cases We’re Unlikely to Hear About Again. Courtesy of today’s Gothamist, we learn that a case involving an escaped circus tiger whose presence caused car accidents along the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Brooklyn (NY), which in turn caused serious injuries to the occupants of the vehicles involved, [...]