In September 2006, the federal district court for the Eastern District of New ...

Kentucky is no stranger to indemnity claims, but how does a Kentucky court reconcile the conflict between the state apportionment statute and the common law principle of implied equitable indemnity? Equally important, how can one defend against such a ...

Attorneys Frederic Bellamy and Mark Freeze of Steptoe & Johnson examine the ground-breaking TJX litigation in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts involving the largest known data base security breach in history. The authors take particular not ...

On November 29, 2007, the Illinois Supreme Court issued two opinions addressing, for the first time in many years, conflict of laws analysis. In this surprising reversal of the trial and appel ...

Where a product-liability count is barred by the statute of limitations, is a second count, alleging spoliation of evidence, also barred? This commentary, written by Joseph B. McDonnell, an experienced Illinois litigator, examines considerations for th ...

For almost twenty-nine years, Alabama law dictated that the state's two-year statute of limitations for toxic torts cases ran from the date of last exposure to toxic substances. This "last exposure rule," as set forth in Garrett v. Raythe ...

In City of Santa Barbara v. Superior Court , 41 Cal. 4th 747, 62 Cal. Rptr. 3d 527 (Cal. 2007), the ...

In Linog v. Yampolsky, 2008 S.C. LEXIS 10 (S.C. 2008), the South Carolina Supreme Court held that South Carolina does not recognize the tort of medical battery, even in situations where plaintiffs claim they did not consen ...

Michael S. Levine, a senior associate in the McLean, Virginia office of Hunton & Williams LLP, practices in the firm's insurance and reinsurance group. He discusses the recent rash of product recalls due to the presence of lead in the products, whi ...

In late summer and early fall of 2007, a group of law professors submitted proposals to the American Bar Association's Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility aimed at rectifying what they assert are commonplace improprieties inherent in ce ...

The recall of approximately 60 million packets of pet food sold by Menu Foods, Inc. in March 2007 had staggering financial repercussions for Menu Foods and resulted in injury or death to thousands of dogs and cats. In the wake of the recall, a number o ...

Hugh K. Webster, a partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Webster, Chamberlain & Bean, discusses Northern District of Ohio's recent holding in In re Welding Fume Litigation that ...

Robert C. Clifford discusses the issues raised by the California Supreme Court's decision in Wilson v. 21st Century Ins. Co., 2007 Cal. LEXIS 13314 (Cal. 2007) in this commentary. Although this case involved an insured's claim for underinsurance benefi ...

The year 2007 will long be remembered as the year of the Chinese toy recall, as millions of toys from the People's Republic of China were pulled from the shelves of U.S. retailers when it was discovered the imports were co ...

Robert C. Clifford discusses the issues raised by the U.S. District Court in Storek v. Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance Underwrit ...