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On December 21st, 2017, the California Sate Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision of enormous importance to victims of inadequately labelled prescription drugs. The Court held that “because brand-name drug companies write the labels for all drugs, a brand-name drug company can be sued for injuries caused by mislabeled generic versions of its drug.” Attorney…

Here is some news about torts that you may have missed: 1.Time Magazine reports on a heartbreaking case:  “An 87-Year-Old Nun Said She Was Raped in Her Nursing Home. Here’s Why She Couldn’t Sue.” An “87-year-old Catholic nun told a staffer at Chateau Vestavia, an assisted-living facility near Birmingham, Ala., that she’d been raped in…

Here are some recent stories about tort law that you may have missed: The New York Times reported on September 30, 2017 that contact sports cause 600,000 injuries a year.   Key quote: “And that takes into account only the immediate consequences of an injury; a paper by the researchers says, not the long-term consequences…

The American Museum of Tort Law is proud to Announce that Attorney Thomas V. Girardi joins many other distinguished colleagues as a Founder.

Bruce Schneier, a fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the chief technology officer of the cybersecurity company Resilient, has an op-ed piece in the New York Times today, “What Happens When Your Car Gets Hacked?”1 In it, Schneier asks what will happen in five or ten years, when the world is going…