Based on attendance and buzz at recent legal education programs, mass tort, construction defect and, of course, insurance attorneys will be busy for some time litigating causation and culpability surrounding alleged claims of both property damage and p ...

A divided Wisconsin appellate panel upheld the defense verdict favoring NL Industries today, amid dissent as to whether errors were committed pertaining to the admissibility of certain evidence during the trial stage.

A ruling finding that a nonmanufacturing seller is not subject to strict liability for its pre-1997 conduct has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.  The Ohio Supreme Court found in October 2007 that applying the policy prior to its 1977 adopt ...

Looks like the battle over asbestos legislation in Florida isn't over yet ...

Seems like its been a busy few days and weeks for judges presiding over asbestos trials.  Heck, for that matter, it seems like its been a busy 2008.

I've mentioned before in this space that the focus of asbestos litigation is turning toward California.  The April 16 issue of the Mealey's Litigation Report: Asbestos, demonstrates that.

The Texas Supreme Court's 2007 opinion in  Flores established that those exposed to asbestos needed more than just the usual regular, frequent, proximate exposure evidence.  Flores requires some evidence pointing to the actual am ...

In a rare occurence in hormone replacement therapy litigation, a judge has rejected Wyeth's post-trial request for a new trial. Not only that, the case involved the biggest verdict in the litigation's history: $134.5 million for three breast cancer sur ...

I just got my hands on an opinion the Iowa Court of Appeals released today regarding the hot issue of premises owner liability in asbestos cases.  In it, the court affirmed judgment for two premises owners.