One of the major concerns of the plaintiffs' bar was that the Court of Appeals decision in Bostic seemed to require a showing of strict "but-for" causation—so that but for the exposure to a specific ...

Energy & Environment, Vol. 11, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: LOW LEVEL RADIATION, NUCLEAR POWER AND THE LAW (2000), pp. 207-216 (10 pages) Traditionally tort (personal injury) cases have been regarded as ...

Shahar Dillbary, Cherie Metcalf & Brock Stoddard have posted to SSRN Incentivized Torts: An Empirical Analysis. The abstract provides: Courts and scholars assume that group causation theories (e.g., ...

A pivotal federal dismissal in Martinez v. Kraft Heinz spotlights the evidentiary challenges in ultra-processed food (UPF) ...

For five years, Bandleader Emery Deutsch and his wife vainly sought damages from Manhattan’s Doctors Hospital for the permanent mental retardation of their son. The Deutsches claimed that hospital ...

In Doull v. Foster, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) addressed the proper causation standard in a medical malpractice case. In reaching this issue, the SJC reached far beyond the medical ...

As we reported, on June 22, 2016, President Obama signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety Reform for the 21st Century Act (the Act) into law, enacting the Toxic Substances Control Act’s (TSCA) ...

The Michigan Court of Appeals in a case called Genna v Jackson recently ruled that plaintiffs alleging injury from exposure to mold did not have to present an expert witness to prove that they had ...

Yesterday the Supreme Court called for the views of the Solicitor General on Putnam Investments, LLC v. Brotherston, a case about the burden of proving causation for losses in ERISA suits. There is a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Evidence-based medicine (EBM) was first established in the 1980s when physicians and medical educators purposed to more uniformly apply ...