Day on Torts

Each one of us deals with it almost every day – subrogation or reimbursement. Many of those plans are covered by ERISA. This post by John Wood on our ERISA blog may be of assistance to you.

Have you ever got the feeling that the insurance company trying to sell you life insurance did not want you to tell the truth? Have you ever had an agent say “you don’t have to put that down?” The questions on many applications are very difficult to understand. For instance,…

Colin Farrell does not want Nicole Narain, a former Playboy Miss January, to distribute a 15-minute video tape showing the two of them engaged in sexual activity. They entered into an oral agreement to keep it private. He alleges that she was about to market the tape, so he filed…

Boston Scientific makes stents. “Stents are tiny wire-mesh tubes used to prop open heart arteries after fatty deposits have been cleared away. The devices are inserted through blood vessels and deployed by a tiny balloon that is inflated, pushing the stent in place.” The company has had a problem with…

Three teenage girls turned into the driveway of Mr. William Cherry around midnight because they were lost and low on gas. The driver says she turned into a driveway at the suggestion of the 911 dispatcher that she had called for help. Cherry, fearing that the occupants had come to…

I wrote last week about Mike Price’s lawsuit against Sport’s Illustrated for defamation, which arose after an article that stated that he engaged in sexual conduct with several women in a hotel in Florida. Price was fired from his job. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the defendant…

Guidant has shared more information about problems with some of its pacemakers. A news article reports that “the Indianapolis-based company, which last month recalled almost 109,000 defibrillators, released a warning that said a sealing component in the pacemakers had degraded in some cases, resulting in higher-than-normal moisture in the devices…

Here is an update on the first Vioxx trial, as reported by the New York Times.

OK, I know that it is off topic but I can’t help myself. First, the President said that he would “take care” of anyone who violated the law concerning leaking information about a CIA agent. Yesterday, the President said he would fire anyone convicted of a crime concerning the matter.…

A bill has been introduced in Congress to fund pilot projects in several states to test the idea of special “health courts.” An article on the bill says that “[t]he bill would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to award up to 10 demonstration grants to states…