Notwithstanding a clear mandate in the legislative history of CPLR Article 9 (“mass exposure to environmental offences”), mass tort class actions have, typically, not been certified by the Appellate ...

The District of Columbia’s Compulsory No-Fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act does not bar a tort claim in Maryland arising out of a motor vehicle accident in Maryland when the claimants are D.C.

Can clients seek compensation for domestic violence from their spouses in a parallel tort action as opposed to addressing these issues exclusively in divorce proceedings … or is that a double dip? In ...

The gist of the action doctrine does not bar a viable tort claim between two parties related by a contract. Earlier last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in SodexoMAGIC v. Drexel ...

Coming soon to a federal courthouse near you--a chilling complement to our economic malaise: class actions against financial institutions, which will add to our economic woes. Many of these filings ...

The last few years have seen a debate arise among Canadian tort law firms on whether to maintain the traditional class action approach in Canada or to move towards more of an American model. Russ Howe ...