• Florida convict blames Verizon for letting him steal man’s identity [WFTV]
• Carving the carcass: class-action lawyers’ fee-ing frenzy [Boston Globe, Daniel Fisher]
• Allianz report on state of directors and officers’ liability insurance market;
• Disbarred “Master of Disaster” Stanley Chesley fights paying victims of fen-phen settlement fraud [James Pilcher, Cincinnati Enquirer]
• As we’ve discussed on many occasions, supposed “Winnebago cruise control lawsuit” tale is a great big urban legend, but plenty of others alas are quite true [Bob Dorigo Jones]
• Will liability reform in Illinois ever manage to get around Speaker Michael Madigan? [Daniel DiSalvo, City Journal]

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