Torts roundup - Overlawyered

Tasteless lawyer TV ads, yet another helping with some new to us [Above the Law, more, Daily Caller]
“Study Says N.Y. ‘Scaffold Law’ Drives Up Construction Costs, Causes Injuries” [Insurance Journal, study, Cornell] Foes of NY’s liability-friendly Scaffold Law have videos on YouTube [sponsor]
What can we conclude about the efficiency of liability rules in markets where nearly every provider tries to disclaim liability? [Bryan Caplan] “Regulation through Boilerplate: An Apologia” [Omri Ben-Shahar, SSRN]
Stephen Yeazell on the declining political salience of the tort reform issue [SSRN]
The “record of the elite defense bar with regard to the law of expert testimony… not a happy history” [David Bernstein, more] “The Misbegotten Judicial Resistance to the Daubert Revolution” [same] Acronym new to me: “SWAG,” short for “Scientific Wild-A**ed Guessing” [Paul Barrett, Business Week]
“Turning litigation into a business is corrosive” [Philip K. Howard on lawsuit finance and champerty]
Will health insurers be the ones to pull back the curtain on the asbestos bankruptcy trusts? [Daniel Fisher]