General

Limiting Liability in the Greenhouse
Emitters of greenhouse gases externalize the true costs of their contribution to climate change. Efforts to recover these costs, which manifest both t...

AIRROC Matters -- Spring 2008
AIRROC is the Association of Insurance and Reinsurance Run-off Companies. Their Spring 2008 issue provides an excellent article on "Improvi...

2007 State Liability Systems Ranking Study
The 2007 State Liability Systems Ranking Study was conducted for the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform by Harris Interactive, Inc. amo...

Recent Court Decisions

Worker Compensation Carriers Granted Vacation From Future Benefit Payments

On October 11, 2007, the Court of Appeals affirmed the Third Department's decision in the matter of Burns v. Varriale holding that when a perso...

NJ Law Review Update
On February 1, 2007 the NJ Appellate Division, in the case of Kranz v. Tiger et al, held that the plaintiff in a prior negligence action submitted suf...

Court Reverses MCS-90 Lower Court Decision
The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 requires carriers to demonstrate that they are insured against damages they cause. They can fulfill this responsib...

Hurricane Katrina Coverage Under Homeowners Policies
Judge Stanwood R. Duvall, Jr. of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has issued a ruling which could have a dramatic im...

U.S. Fifth Circuit Rules that Water Damage Exclusion Not Ambiguous
On August 2, 2007, the United States Fifth Circuit reversed the Eastern District of Louisiana's Judge Stanwood Duval, who had previously ruled that th...