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Tag Archives: Tort
Rethinking Tort Liability for Suicides
Alex B. Long, Abolishing the Suicide Rule, 113 N. W. U. L.Rev.767 (2019). Mark Geistfeld Suicide has become an important public-health problem, leading Alex Long to revisit the unduly neglected question of whether tort law should recognize wrongful-death actions for … Continue reading
Court Exorcises Tort
Photo credit: Kevin P. Siu [CC BY-SA 4.0] Tech sector employers take notice: harassment is not a tort. At least, for now.Torts are wrongful acts that attract liability in civil courts. Torts such as defamation and wrongful termination and familiar … Continue reading
No Tort of Harassment for You!
The common law in Ontario has proven relatively adept at developing new torts, in particular in the area of privacy law, to change and adapt to relatively stagnant or unsatisfactory statutory developments. Although the tort of intimidation has long been … Continue reading
The Myths and Reality of Tort Reform
Charles Silver, David A. Hyman, & Bernard Black, Fictions and Facts: Medical Malpractice Litigation, Physician Supply, and Health Care Spending in Texas Before and After HB 4, __ Tex. Tech. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN. David Orentlicher It … Continue reading