AEI Liability Outlook: “Making the FAIR Act Fair”
The first edition of the AEI Liability Outlook is out today, and features my analysis of pending asbestos legislation: The AEI Liability Project hereby inaugurates its Liability Outlook series,...
View ArticleCenter for Justice & Democracy and Americans for Insurance Reform
Martin Grace and I have written a Liability Outlook for AEI looking at the last several years of CJD/AIR studies on medical malpractice. The conclusion? “In many ways, the problem with AIR’s reports is...
View Article“Rollover Economics: Arbitrary and Capricious Product Liability Regimes”
My latest Liability Outlook for AEI is about the Ford Explorer rollover litigation and what it says about products liability litigation in the US in general: It went generally unnoticed last November...
View ArticleThe Class Action Fairness Act Two Years Later
The latest AEI Liability Outlook, which has my take on two years of CAFA, is on-line. Tweet Tags: Class Action Fairness Act, class actions, Liability Outlook, Ted Frank The Class Action Fairness Act...
View ArticleThe Roberts Court and Liability Reform
The latest AEI Liability Outlook explores my take on the tort reform implications of October Term 2006. Tweet Tags: Liability Outlook, Philip Morris v. Williams, preemption, procedure, punitive...
View Article“Should Trial Lawyers Make Terror Policy?”
Ted has a new essay out by this title in AEI’s Liability Outlook series (Sept. 11). To quote from the conclusion: One can debate the appropriate role for each of the three branches in the post-9/11...
View ArticleFACTA’s billion-dollar problem
My latest Liability Outlook looks at the abusive litigation created by a statutory drafting oversight: a bill designed to protect against identity theft has instead become a mechanism for the...
View ArticleThe Patent Reform Act of 2007
My latest Liability Outlook is on the Patent Reform Act of 2007: Despite some in the media calling patent reform dead, on January 24, 2008, the Senate placed S. 1145, the Patent Reform Act of 2007, on...
View ArticleZombie Litigation
My latest Liability Outlook examines the problems of retroactive lawmaking and litigation, especially reviver statutes, and even Obama fans will find something to like: The controversy over whether and...
View ArticleThe trouble with civil Gideon
In the latest Liability Outlook, I rebut the ABA’s resolution for guaranteed taxpayer funding of civil lawyers for the poor, expanding on my earlier ACS talk: [The poor] will trade higher rents and...
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