Podcast - A Tortured Journey with the Lying Witness
Since 2022, the Georgia General Assembly has passed several pieces of legislation providing significant impacts for civil litigation and litigants in the State’s courts. Together, the new laws indicate a legislative trend to...more
As defense counsel, not only do we have an obligation to evaluate plaintiffs’ complaints to develop affirmative defenses and form defense strategy, but we must also assess the viability of the claims on their face. In a...more
Georgia has enacted the most comprehensive tort reform legislation the state has seen in nearly 20 years. Passed during the 2025 Georgia legislative session, the legislation impacts multiple aspects of Georgia tort...more
In Angelyn A. Olson et al. v. The Consilio LLC, et al. filed in Tarrant County, Texas, plaintiff Angelyn Olson alleged that she was involved in other litigation during which an e-discovery service provider (Consilio) was...more
The start of 2024 marked the end of an insurance era in Oregon. On December 29, 2023—the last Friday before the new year—the Oregon Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Moody v. Oregon Community Credit Union,...more
Last month, we provided an overview of Florida Tort Reform HB 837 - a wide-ranging tort reform bill ratified on March 24, 2023. With the stated goal of stabilizing the state’s insurance market, the bill’s sweeping provisions...more
On August 25, 2022, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued an Order amending Rules 1006, 2130, 2156, and 2179 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, all of which pertain to venue in civil actions. The court’s...more
Emphasizing the concept of “notice pleading” under Mass. R. Civ. P. 8, Judge Salinger recently denied a gelatin factory’s motion to dismiss. In Baranofsky v. Rousselot Peabody, Inc., a proposed class of neighboring City of...more
In a products liability lawsuit against the manufacturer and seller, a plaintiff asserted claims of strict products liability, breach of warranty, negligence, gross negligence, and consumer fraud. One defendant filed a...more
This is the second in a series of posts evaluating the results of Exterro and Duke/EDRM’s 2019 survey of Federal district court and magistrate judges. With information from over 250 judges, the survey data offers a rich trove...more