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The Milberg Weiss Indictment and H.R. 5491
By Ted Frank
Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Testimony before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises on issues surrounding the Milberg Weiss indictment and H.R. 5491.
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Faulty Studies from Center for Justice & Democracy Are Stunting the Medical-Malpractice Debate
By Ted Frank, Martin F. Grace
Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006
How has the national debate over medical-malpractice and medical liability reform been affected by a set of faulty studies?
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Making the FAIR Act Fair
By Ted Frank
Posted: Friday, March 3, 2006
The inaugural Liability Outlook joins AEI's series of Outlook publications.
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The Vioxx Litigation
Part II
By Ted Frank
Posted: Thursday, December 15, 2005
This installment looks at the problems presented by the Vioxx cases for the litigation system as a whole.
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The Vioxx Litigation
Part I
By Ted Frank
Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2005
This paper looks at the history of Vioxx and asks questions about potential over-deterrence.
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Costly U.S. Tort System Doesn't Improve Safety
By Kevin A. Hassett
Posted: Monday, October 17, 2005
The U.S. tort system, which consumes more than 2 percent of GDP and is the world's most expensive, isn't making Americans any safer. In fact, the opposite is probably true.
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Tort Reform Saves Lives
By Paul H. Rubin
Posted: Thursday, October 13, 2005
Tort reform may save lives.
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Ernst v. Merck--One More View
By Ted Frank
Posted: Monday, September 12, 2005
Too bad we won't be able to sue the trial lawyers when the inevitable deaths happen.
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Junk Science Reigns
By John E. Calfee
Posted: Thursday, September 1, 2005
The recent verdict in a case involving the pain reliever Vioxx demonstrates how junk science can corrupt drug litigation.
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Unable Danger
Liable to Sue? No Way to Run a War
By Ted Frank
Posted: Friday, August 26, 2005
A liability concern may have left the FBI ignorant of Atta’s al Qaeda cell’s operations in the U.S., resulting in a missed opportunity to prevent the terrible events of September 11.
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Liability Outlook No. 2, 2007 - The Class Action Fairness Act Two Years Later
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| In the second Liability Outlook of 2007, Ted Frank gives an assessment of how CAFA has fared in its first two years and what challenges remain in the context of mass torts. |
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Liability Outlook No. 1, 2007 - Rollover Economics
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| In this first Liability Outlook of 2007, Ted Frank examines a nine-figure verdict against Ford for alleged "defective design" in its SUVs and analyzes the legal problems that led to it. |
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