Colorado Increases Damages Caps in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Actions
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Read MoreDelta-9 THC Products from Hemp Are a Risk Not Worth Taking
Read MoreNY’s Highest Court Issues Noteworthy Decision on the Limits of Personal Jurisdiction over Foreign Corporations
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Read MoreThird Circuit Sends Questions Regarding Medical Device Liability to Pennsylvania Supreme Court for Review
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Read MoreNew York Finally Passes Legislation Regulating the Use of E-Bicycles and E-Scooters
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Read MoreNew York’s Governor Ends Year with Three Important Legislative Vetoes
Read MoreNew York Legislature Declines to Expand Wrongful Death Damages
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Read MoreThe Daubert Standard Once Again Controls in Florida State Court
Read MoreThe NY Court of Appeals Addresses “Optional Safety Equipment” in Fasolas v. Bobcat of N.Y., Inc.
Read MoreAs Electric Scooters Barrel Their Way into the Sharing Economy, Manufacturers and Their Insurers Should Prepare for an Influx of New Claims
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Read MoreCross-Examining the Expert Witness in a PL Case Part III: Challenging the Methodology
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Read MoreEquipment Manufacturers: Beware of the Rental Yard Customer When Safety Features Are Optional
Read MoreLithium-Ion Batteries: Hoverboard Suspected in Fatal Fire
Read MoreA Challenge to Hague Service by Mail Is Now Before the SCOTUS…Finally
Read MoreCalifornia Imposes Broad Liability in “Take-Home” Toxic Exposure Cases
Read MoreGovernment Contractor Defense May Apply to Commercially Available Products
Read MoreNew York Appellate Courts Now Unified on Hague’s “Send versus Serve” Issue
Read MoreCSST Found to Be Ordinary Building Material under Virginia’s Statute of Repose – For a Second Time
Read MoreRevisiting the Post-Sale Duty to Warn
Read MoreLithium-Ion Batteries: Small Products, Big Exposures
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Read MorePokémon GO: An Indicator of Product Liability in the App Economy
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Read MoreMobile Apps − Has the Marketplace Downloaded Potential Product Liability Risk?
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Read MoreThe Connecticut Supreme Court restricts the plaintiff’s ability to rely on the “Malfunction Doctrine” to support a Product Liability claim
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Read MoreThe Government Contractor Defense
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Read MoreDaubert Déjà Vu
Read MoreCornell Ruling Is Cause for Experts’ Concern
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Read MoreSocial Media as a Risk Management Tool?
Read MoreFlorida Court Says, “No Phishing Expeditions Allowed on a Plaintiff’s Facebook Page”
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Read MoreDo You Really Want to Know What’s in Your Food? Connecticut Requires Labeling for Genetically Modified Foods
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Read MoreReview of Recent Updates to the Local Rules of SDNY and EDNY
Colorado Increases Damages Caps in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Actions
“More Likely Than Not”: New Amendments to FRE 702 Demand More Exacting Standard for Admitting Expert Testimony
SCOTUS Upholds PA's Consent to Personal Jurisdiction Requirement in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.
New York’s Governor Vetoes Expansion of Wrongful Death Damages – For Now
Cannabis and Hemp Companies Disregard Emerging Product Liability Risks at Their Peril
Serving Taiwanese Defendants by Mail under the Federal Rules
New York Amends the New Insurance Disclosure Requirements
New York Enacts New Rule of Evidence Expanding the Scope of the Admissibility of Employee-Agent Hearsay Statements
Amendments to New York’s Onerous New Insurance Disclosure Requirements May Be Imminent
New York Ends the Year with Onerous New Insurance Coverage Disclosure Rules for Defendants in Product Liability Litigation
California’s SB 447 – Increasing the Danger in One of the Country’s Most Favorable Venues for Personal Injury Plaintiffs
Delta-9 THC Products from Hemp Are a Risk Not Worth Taking
NY’s Highest Court Issues Noteworthy Decision on the Limits of Personal Jurisdiction over Foreign Corporations
Litigation Funding May Soon Be Addressed by New York’s Legislature
Third Circuit Sends Questions Regarding Medical Device Liability to Pennsylvania Supreme Court for Review
Despite Tincher, Pennsylvania Superior Court Determines “Industry Standards” Is Still Not a Viable Defense to Product Liability Claims
The SCOTUS Decision in Ford v. Montana and Its Impact on the Defense of Life Science Companies
SCOTUS Slams the Brakes on Ford’s Personal Jurisdiction Defense
New Rules Bring Big Changes to New York Practice
Reinforcing Purposeful Availment
jurisdiction,
Product Liability,
Civil Litigation,
Ford v. Bandemer,
Ford v. Montana,
civil procedure
The Law of Personal Jurisdiction Is About to Be Changed Again – What Life Science Companies Should Expect
New York Finally Passes Legislation Regulating the Use of E-Bicycles and E-Scooters
Will the PREP Act Adequately Protect U.S. Automakers That Are Now Making Ventilators from Future Product Liability Claims?
Civil Litigation,
Electric Bicycles,
Government Regulations and Compliance,
Government Relations,
E-Scooters
New York’s Governor Ends Year with Three Important Legislative Vetoes
New York Legislature Declines to Expand Wrongful Death Damages
NY State May Soon Increase Recoverable Wrongful Death Damages
Daubert Standard,
Civil Litigation,
Expert witness,
Florida,
Admissibility of Expert Testimony,
evidence