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An Empirical Look at 'Social Inflation'

In a 103-page report released earlier this month, RAND Corporation researchers took a look at changes in court filings, jury verdicts in personal injury cases and insurance claims and concluded that the trendlines were "consistent with an upsurge in social inflation during the 2010s."
5 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Court Dismisses Defamation Case by Ex-Homeland Security Official Against Fox News

The plaintiff had alleged speakers on Fox News began making defamatory statements about her when she was appointed the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security's since-disbanded Disinformation Governance Board.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Hunter Biden Drops Lawsuit Against Fox Over Fictionalized 'Mock Trial' Series

The case was dismissed without prejudice and the filing did not provide any additional information.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Cracked Sidewalk? Supreme Court Rules Abutting Property Owner Is Liable

"When the Legislature ... fails to provide guidance to property owners and innocent injured parties, it is the responsibility of the courts to do so," writes former Superior Court Judge Louis F. Locascio.
7 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Smartmatic, Newsmax at War Over Witnesses in Lawsuit Over Election Defamation

Hundreds of filings in June and July have been made in connection with the motions to block expert testimony. Meanwhile, both sides have filed motions for summary judgment that haven't been decided, and both have moved for the other to be sanctioned or held in contempt.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

$1.2M Verdict for Jogger Is Headed to Appellate Division as Parties Contest Liability for Uneven Sidewalk

At the center of the case is a dispute over a defective public sidewalk and whether a commercial property owner or a municipality is obligated to make repairs. The case is headed to the Appellate Division.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Appellate Court Clarifies County Park's Immunity From Personal Injury Suit Under Landowners Liability Act

"The park is a 'premises' under N.J.S.A. 2A:42A-3(a), and the judge properly determined the county was entitled to LLA immunity," Appellate Division Judge Jessica R. Mayer said.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Personal Injury, Product Liability Suit Against AbbVie's CoolSculpting Returns to State Court

"The complaint generally alleges the elements for holding a medical provider strictly liable under a defective design theory, and AbbVie has not cited ... to a single case which addresses the pleading requirements in state court," wrote U.S. District Judge Robert Kirsch for the District of New Jersey. "In order for a court to find fraudulent joinder, 'it must be impossible for a state court to find that a plaintiff has stated a valid cause of action.'"
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Philadelphia on Track for Record Year of High-Dollar Verdicts

Court data shows that by the halfway mark of 2024, Philadelphia saw nearly as many eight-plus-figure civil jury verdicts as it did in the entirety of 2023. That statistic is especially striking considering 2023 had already marked a high point for awards exceeding $10 million.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

$5M Settlement: Lawyers Circumvent Qualified Immunity for Client with 'No Memory'

"Taking necessary depositions and calling out the discrepancies in the deputies' statements helped to progress the case," said Cash Krugler Fredericks partner Lisa McNary.
8 minute read

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