INTRODUCTIONTort law has traditionally been based on three main pillars: compensation, deterrence, and corrective justice.

Somewhat unobtrusively, New York’s highest court recently issued a decision in an asbestos case (see Dan M. Clark, “NY Court of Appeals Affirms Decision Tossing $11M Asbestos Verdict,” N.Y.L.J., Nov.

One of the major concerns of the plaintiffs' bar was that the Court of Appeals decision in Bostic seemed to require a showing of strict "but-for" causation—so that but for the exposure to a specific ...

Learn about unintentional torts like negligence, the three conditions needed to prove them, and how they impact injury, ...

For five years, Bandleader Emery Deutsch and his wife vainly sought damages from Manhattan’s Doctors Hospital for the permanent mental retardation of their son. The Deutsches claimed that hospital ...

Energy & Environment, Vol. 11, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: LOW LEVEL RADIATION, NUCLEAR POWER AND THE LAW (2000), pp. 207-216 (10 pages) Traditionally tort (personal injury) cases have been regarded as ...

On May 11, attorneys general from 21 states wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s chair and ranking member, requesting federal liability protection to help mitigate the threat of frivolous ...

My son and I are avid baseball fans (though we support different teams -- he the O's and I the Nats). Sometimes we turn on a game in progress on TV, while our favorite team is in the lead. It often ...

Somewhat unobtrusively, New York's highest court recently issued a decision in an asbestos case (see Dan M. Clark, “NY Court of Appeals Affirms Decision Tossing $11M Asbestos Verdict,” N.Y.L.J., Nov.