Tort Burger - Hold the Reform

This is a re-post from my other blog the louisianasocialsecuritydisabilityblog.com, regarding some important new legislation, the ABLE Act: The ABLE Act is moving through Congress and should get...

https://tortburger.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/able-act-moving-through-congress/

Reuters reports that a Swiss billionaire has been convicted of negligence in the deaths of 2,000 people working for his company Eternit, a Swiss building material maker.  Stephen Schmidheiny was...

https://tortburger.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/swiss-billionaire-convicted-in-asbestos-victims-deaths/

According to a report by the BBC, the Department of Education in England has released a report on mesothelioma risks for children, prepared by the Committee on Carcinogenity.  The Committee on C...

https://tortburger.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/mesothelioma-risk-3-5-times-greater-for-child-exposed-at-age-5-compared-to-adult-exposed-at-age-25/

According to Forbes. the Supreme Court of Oklahoma struck down a tort reform package the Oklahoma legislature passed in 2009.  The single law included numerous tort reform provisions, including ...

https://tortburger.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/oklahoma-tort-reform-law-struck-down-as-unconstitutional/

Since the symptoms of mesothelioma are similar to those of other cancers and because mesotheliomas often mimic other types of cancer, diagnosing mesothelioma can be difficult. The diagnostic proc...

https://tortburger.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/diagnosis-and-treatment-of-mesothelioma/

According to an article in the Austin American Statesman titled “Tort Reform Not The Tonic It’s Touted To Be”, one of the claims used to pass extreme medical malpractice tort reform in Texa...

https://tortburger.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/study-evidence-suggests-medical-malpractice-cases-not-cause-of-doctors-leaving-texas/

According to a story on the USA Today website, a jury in Las Animas County Colorado awarded the family of a high school student who suffered a severe brain injury while playing high school footba...

https://tortburger.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/colorado-jury-awards-11-5-million-to-family-in-brain-damage-suit-against-football-helmet-manufacturuer-riddell/

According to a story on the Legalnewsline.com, two congressmen have introduced a new tort reform bill in Washington.  Representative Lamar Smith, R-Texas and Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have...

https://tortburger.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/newest-federal-tort-reform-proposal-unveiled/

According to a story in the Houston Chronical (also reported on in the New York Times), Texas tort reformers are at it again.  On the horizon in the Texas Legislature this year are several...

https://tortburger.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/texas-tort-reform-rolls-on/

The CPSC issued a recall on 82,000 Pottery Barn Kids drop side cribs, according to Reuters.  The recall is being issued for cribs sold between January 1999 and March 2010, at Pottery Barn Kids r...

https://tortburger.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/recall-issued-on-pottery-barn-cribs/