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Showing posts with label punitive damages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label punitive damages. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Free torts textbook ready for academic year 2024-25

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TORTZ: A Study of American Tort Law is complete and revised for the coming academic year 2024-25. The two-volume textbook is posted for fr...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

TORTZ volume 2 unpacks duty, causation, damages, introduces nuisance, defamation, privacy

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Tortz volume 2 is now available for affordable purchase from Lulu.com and for free PDF download from SSRN . Tortz volume 2 follows up vol...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Tort-contract distinction cannot block damage multiplier, Mass. high court holds in lease dispute

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Photo by Yonkers Honda CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr A landlord may not rely on a limitation-of-liability provision in a commercial lease to evad...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Judge excoriates city in public records row

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Worcester, Mass., City Hall (Mass. Office of Travel & Tourism CC BY-ND 2.0 via Flickr ) In a remarkable opinion in January 2022, the Ma...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Mass. high court affirms 'component parts doctrine' in HVAC spat, unless maker was culpable in defect

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Historical interior of the William Bliss House, 25 Exeter, Back Bay in Boston, constructed 1882-1884: today the private home of the Nemirovs...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Court affirms widow's $21m verdict vs. Big Tobacco, upholds punitive damages despite '98 settlement

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Marlboro Red Open Box by Sarah Johnson ( CC BY 2.0 ) The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today affirmed a $21m verdict against Phili...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Automatic-door failures fuel injuries, tort claims, but road to recovery in litigation can be bumpy

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Pixabay by djedj An Australian woman struck by a malfunctioning airport security door was denied recovery in April after failing to prove t...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Tort liability brakes U.S. policy shift on Sudan, marks crossroads of past, future where Africa meets Arabia

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Street corner in the Arabian Market district of Khartoum (RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) With economic sanctions exacting an intensified ...
Friday, April 3, 2020

'Game changer,' $2.5m punitive affirmance elucidates 'gross negligence' in medmal

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The Massachusetts Appeals Court in late February affirmed an award of $2.5m in punitive damages in a case of death from botched laparoscopi...

Battery, IIED in play if medical staff ignore patient's 'stop,' court rules

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Medical professionals may be liable for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress for failing to heed a patient's withdra...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Teachable torts, Patriots edition: Civil complaint against Antonio Brown

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Antonio Brown in 2014 (by Brook Ward CC BY-NC 2.0 ) New England news is afire today over the civil lawsuit filed against NFL Patriots ...
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