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 ...

Somewhat unobtrusively, New York’s highest court recently issued a decision in an asbestos case (see Dan M. Clark, “NY Court of Appeals Affirms Decision Tossing $11M Asbestos Verdict,” N.Y.L.J., Nov.

Toxic-tort litigation presents defendants with a number of challenges. Sometimes the evidence in a case is from pioneers of the latest scientific discoveries. Sometimes facts are decades old.

Whereas some toxic substances have signature diseases (asbestos and tobacco come to mind) in other cases causation is difficult for impossible to prove, creating serious legal problems for workers and ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - The headlines Wednesday in the mass tort litigation over Bayer’s Roundup weedkiller were all about the company’s decision to pay as much as $10.9 billion - a lot of money! - to settle ...

My son and I are avid baseball fans (though we support different teams -- he the O's and I the Nats). Sometimes we turn on a game in progress on TV, while our favorite team is in the lead. It often ...