Category Archives: Product Liability
The Medical History of Asbestos
For those who don’t know, I’m a mesothelioma lawyer and an asbestos lawyer in addition to representing folks hurt by dangerous drugs and medical devices. The last quarter of the year slows down a lot for me and I’m now able to dedicate some time to blogging and tending to my various web sites. The [...]
Asbestos, Payday Loans, and Russian Girls–When Will Google Fix The Spam Problem?
I’m working on an asbestos lawsuit involving Union Carbide Corporation. I thought I’d do a Google search for “Union Carbide asbestos” and the following result turned up at the top of page 3: Apparently, Google thinks someone out there might need a payday loan so they can buy bakelite asbestos from Russian girls giving hand [...]
Richard Epstein’s Toyota Non Sequitur
Richard Epstein is a brilliant and distinguished legal scholar. But his latest column in Forbes about product liability law is a giant non sequitur. Here’s his conclusion: But the jurisprudential lesson from these cases is that the free-floating, jury-driven regime of product liability is a huge mistake that contributes nothing to product safety as it [...]
Walter Olson Knows The Difference Between Punitive And Compensatory Damages, Right?
I ask because over at Point of Law, he links to a post criticizing the $300 million dollar verdict against Philip Morris. The post badly distorts the law: Think for a minute about this theory of justice. Imagine applying it to, say, car accidents. By this logic, if a billionaire in a Rolls Royce crashed [...]
Philip Morris Makes Ten Million Bucks A Day?
Putting it in that light, a $244 million award for punitive damages doesn’t sound that high, does it? The Litigation Daily spoke with Naugle’s attorney, Robert Kelley of Kelley and Uustal, on Friday. We wanted to know, first of all, why this award was so much larger than those in previous Engle trials. One reason, [...]
