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Conference Papers from external events can be found here.
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The Vioxx Litigation
By Ted Frank
Posted: Wednesday, April 4, 2007
What had been a trickle of litigation over Vioxx became a flood.
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The Class Action Fairness Act Two Years Later
By Ted Frank
Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Has the Class Action Fairness Act curbed abusive class actions, and will it do so in the future?
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Rollover Economics
Arbitrary and Capricious Product Liability Regimes
By Ted Frank
Posted: Thursday, January 4, 2007
Noneconomic damages should be capped and objective safety standards established in order to provide a safe harbor for manufacturers from unfair liability.
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"Exploding" Pinto: One More Tall Tale from Plaintiffs Bar
Letter to the Editor
By Ted Frank
Posted: Thursday, January 4, 2007
Plaintiffs lawyers have lost the public opinion war, but it is because their abuses have led them to lose the public policy debate on the merits.
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Rule of Law
Follow the Money
By Ted Frank
Posted: Monday, October 30, 2006
The trial lawyers have now enlisted themselves in the war against terror.
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Big Tobacco and the Supreme Court
Double Jeopardy, Civil-Style?
By Ted Frank
Posted: Thursday, October 26, 2006
What will the Supreme Court decide in the upcoming Philip Morris v. Williams case?
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End Open-Ended Litigation
By Ted Frank
Posted: Thursday, September 7, 2006
We need laws that improve certainty, thus reducing business risk, lowering prices and creating jobs. That would do more for consumers than any class action lawsuit.
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A Taxonomy of Obesity Litigation
By Ted Frank
Posted: Friday, August 25, 2006
Only through abuse of the class action mechanism can obesity litigation be feasibly used by plaintiffs’ attorneys. The risk of that abuse, however, is very real.
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All Wet
By Ted Frank
Posted: Thursday, August 24, 2006
Taxpayers may be “soaked” by the eventual government costs of flood insurance, but that is because their elected officials have made the decision to provide the giveaway of subsidized insurance at a cost far below the risks the government assumes in offering it.
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Justice Scams
By Ted Frank
Posted: Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Drug safety is important, but so are the health costs from vaccines and drugs not marketed because of liability risks.
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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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