In their Trial Practice column, Robert S. Kelner and Gail S. Kelner of Kelner & Kelner write that although comparative negligence, no matter how extreme, is not a defense to liability under Labor Law ...

In Westfield Ins. Group v. Pure Renovations, LLC, 2019-Ohio-4773, 2019 Ohio App. LEXIS 4829, the Court of Appeals of Ohio considered whether the lower court properly granted the defendant’s summary ...

At law school, we learned about "proximate cause," one of the few valuable concepts you can take from three years of drudgery. It's about who and what caused the injury and who pays for it. The ...

In this article, Laura B. Dowgin and Thomas J. Maroney discuss the 'Burlington Insurance v. NYC Transit Authority' case and how case law regarding the duty to defend has been affected since the ...

Under Washington law, juries are instructed that a plaintiff must prove that a defendant’s asbestos-containing product was a “substantial factor” in the plaintiff’s development of their alleged ...

(CN) - The Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed jury instructions on negligence that resulted in a judgment of more than $183,000 for a train engineer who permanently injured his hand while working for ...

Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad is unquestionably the most famous case in American tort (which includes personal injury) law, at least as far as lawyers and law students are concerned. It deals with ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...