Posts tagged tort reform

• Philadelphia Not Guilty Of “Judicial Hellhole” Charge - Op-Ed

  Scott Cooper | May 03, 2012 8:14 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Philadelphia Inquirer today May 3, 2012 published the following editorial from David Ward of Keystone Progress. He explains why the criticims of the Philadelphia civil courts are not...

• Study Exonerates Philadelphia Civil Court System

  Scott Cooper | April 03, 2012 7:27 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The performance of Philadelphia’s courts has been the subject of debate for some time now. Some have hailed Philadelphia’s courts as a model for other large urban courts around the...

• Free Showing Of Award Winning “Hot Coffee” Movie At Central Pennsylvania Law School

  Scott Cooper | February 24, 2012 7:41 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  (2/24/2012) – The Student Bar Association of Widener University’s School of Law Harrisburg Campus is holding a free showing of the film Hot Coffee next week. For the full...

• What Are The Real Facts Behind The Unreliable American Tort Reform Association Reports?

  Scott Cooper | January 10, 2012 7:40 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Below is a letter from Mike Morrill, Executive Director of Keystone Progress which explains just some of the reasons to doubt the unreliable study published last month by the American...

• Pennsylvania Several Liability in Hypothetical Action

  Joe Chapman | August 12, 2011 9:21 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Attorneys who do not practice specifically in the personal injury field have asked that I provide a paragraph which gives a hypothetical situation in which the new limitations on joint liability...

• Underinsured Motorists Adjusters Keen to "Several" Liability in Pennsylvania

  Joe Chapman | August 12, 2011 8:29 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Pennsylvania's drastic changes to joint and several liability this summer are coming home to roost in ways the legislature never expected. I had a conversation with an adjuster on an auto case...

• Documentary “HOT COFFEE” Spills the Beans on Tort Reform

  Michael Schafle | June 30, 2011 6:49 PM | 0 CommentsCentral Pennsylvania, PA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The tort reform movement in the United States was finally unmasked on a large stage courtesy of the documentary film “Hot Coffee.” The film aired Monday night on HBO as part of the...

• Hot Coffee: An eye-opening documentary premiers Monday on HBO

  Jamie Sheller | June 24, 2011 5:20 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  What you haven't heard about Stella Liebeck may shock you. Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who spilled scalding hot McDonald's coffee on herself and sued, has been mocked, lampooned and unfairly...