• House Judiciary passes measure (FACT Act) promoting transparency of asbestos trusts, could preserve assets for honest claimants by curbing n-tuple dippers [Harold Kim/US Chamber, Ted Frank] “$48 million jackpot justice asbestos award for 86-year-old” [Frank]
• Canadian court: car crash caused chronic cough [Magraken]
• Push in Connecticut legislature to ease expert testimony threshold, thus enabling more med-mal suits [Zachary Janowski, Raising Hale]
• Georgia court: residents on notice of wild alligators, golf club not liable for elderly woman’s demise [Daily Report]
• “NYT is inconceivably shocked that NYC defends itself in lawsuits instead of blindly writing multimillion $ checks.” [@tedfrank]
• Arizona court declines Third Restatement’s invitation to gut duty prerequisite in tort law [David Oliver]
• Vintage insurance fraud: “The Slip-and-fall Queen” [Brendan Koerner via @petewarden]
• Relaxation of fault in auto cases: “Richard Nixon’s Torts Note” [Robinette, TortsProf] “Reforming the Reform: No-Fault Auto Insurance” [same]

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