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wrongful death
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Friday, April 3, 2020
'Game changer,' $2.5m punitive affirmance elucidates 'gross negligence' in medmal
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The Massachusetts Appeals Court in late February affirmed an award of $2.5m in punitive damages in a case of death from botched laparoscopi...
Friday, September 6, 2019
Dive boat company petitions to limit liability under maritime protection law
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The diving boat MV Conception burns off the coast of Santa Cruz island, California. Photo released by the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Of...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Minhaj: With tort impunity, cruise lines externalize risk, costs to workers, passengers, environment
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One of my favorite comedians—saw him perform Homecoming King at intimate Cherry Lane in NYC in 2016— Hasan Minhaj (self-described "s...
Friday, August 23, 2019
Beijing internet court rules against ISP Baidu on posthumous defamation claim under PRC Tort Law
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In a Chinese defamation case, the Beijing Internet Court has ruled in favor of the plaintiff and contrary to American tort norms regarding ...
Friday, March 22, 2019
Roundup and other stories: Monsanto, Sandy Hook, Aaron Hernandez, Monica Lewinsky, Summer Zervos, and One Montana Statute
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A number of stories have broken in the last couple weeks that, ordinarily, I would like to write about on this blog. I've been travelin...
Friday, February 1, 2019
Federal court holds Syria liable to U.S. family for $300m in killing of journalist Marie Colvin
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Syria owes more than $300m in wrongful death damages to the family of American journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed while working for the...
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Sunday, January 27, 2019
Money can't redeem life, but don't think it doesn't help tort survivors
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When my 1L Torts class studies wrongful death, I take the occasion to challenge the notion that money, based on quantified loss, is necessa...
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Mass. appellate courts render two wrongful death opinions in attenuated duty and causation
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Massachusetts appellate courts have rendered two wrongful death opinions in the last two days, both favoring plaintiffs. In Dubuque v. Cum...
Monday, May 7, 2018
Mass. supreme court: MIT owed no duty in suicide case
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Today the high court of Massachusetts held no duty , as a matter of law, in a wrongful death case of attenuated duty and causation in which ...
Friday, October 14, 2016
'Goliath' bursts onto Amazon scene
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Tonight marks the premiere of Goliath on Amazon TV/Video . Billy Bob Thornton, a native of Bill-Clinton-"Boyhood Home" Hot Spri...
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