Monthly Archives: April 2011

The Pop Tort calls it for what it is. It’s not “tort reform”; it’s a license to do harm. Frank Pasquale with a great post showing how the “elite consensus” that we can’t afford Medicare and Medicaid should not be taken at face value. Although he does not post as regularly as some bloggers, Pasquale [...]

As Professor Pasquale notes over at the Concurring Opinions blog, the award of a Pulitzer prize to the ProPublica website for its series of stories on Wall Street corruption marked a historical first: the first time the Pulitzer committee ever awarded a Pulitzer for stories that never appeared in print. The ProPublica series, “The Wall [...]

We’ve all heard the old adage, “Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.” The maxim is actually attributed to a famous jurist – Jerome Frank – but I’ve always tended to write it off as overly cynical. Judges, at least here in Massachusetts, are among the most competent and conscientious of public servants. By [...]

New York state is going to eliminate parents’ right to sue doctors who injure their children. Professor Bernabe has the grotesque story here. The PopTort reports on a new Health Affairs study showing that medical errors are ten times more frequent than we thought and occur in one-third of hospital admissions. Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly runs [...]