In the past, relatives and patients appeared to accept that pressure ulcers were an inevitable result of chronic conditions and reduced mobility. Now they are viewed as evidence of a failure to provide a reasonable standard of care and action can be brought against those responsible, for compensation.

One of the greatest challenges facing patent holders is the enforcement of their rights against foreign (non-US) infringers. Jurisdictional rules can prevent patent holders from filing patent infringement suits where they have the greatest likelihood of success in enforcement, such as where the infringer is located, has its seat, or holds its assets. Instead, patent holders must file lawsuits i...

IN THE PAST DECADE, SEVERAL WIDELY USED PRESCRIPTION medications have been observed to cause lifethreatening adverse effects, and some have been removed from the market. When an approved medication is found to be unsafe, the courts are sometimes called on to determine fault and allocate remedies for injured parties. But in modern prescription drug cases, litigation has taken on additional signi...

Your former employee recently joined a competitor. Email records confirm that he transferred technology or customer files to his home computer before his abrupt resignation. Other evidence suggests actual–or the threat of–trade secret misappropriation. No company wishes the distraction, expense, and uncertainty that typically accompany litigation. But litigation may be the most effective means–...

1 the tobacco control community cheered. The jury had calculated that only one in 28 000 Californians who have suffered from tobacco caused disease ever sues, so to make Philip Morris confront the real cost of its misbehaviour, they multiplied a typical $1 million compensatory damage award (for medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering) by 28 000. Right on! Even though the trial judge s...

Introduction The Physicians advocacy institute (Pai) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(6) advocacy organization established in 2006 with funds from settlement agreements in the multidistrict litigation (mDl) class action against major national for-profit health insurers. Pai’s board of Directors is comprised of Ceos of medical societies involved in the mDl and a physician who was a named plaintiff in ...

Scholars have long celebrated the importance of norms in corporate law. Indeed, norms likely guide corporate actors more than the omnipresent threat of shareholder suits. This Article divides corporate norms into two distinct groups: aspirational norms and arbiter norms. Aspirational norms announce socially desirable objectives for corporate managers and encourage certain disclosure practices; ...

BACKGROUND Adverse events are frequent in clinical practice, but only a few studies in Saudi Arabia have addressed them. The current study was designed to review the lawsuits against healthcare professionals by analyzing records of the cases dealt with by the Medico-legal Committees (MLC) in various provinces in Saudi Arabia, in order to determine the pattern of medical errors and litigations i...

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2003;16:359–361 Over the past 13 years, one constant in the field of health care liability claims has been litigation over medical devices and products. The 1990s began with the silicone gel breast implant litigation. The balance of the 1990s was devoted to litigation on Norplant and the diet drug combination fenfluramine-phentermine (fen-phen); these cases are still ongoing. T...