Discover tort law, covering civil suits outside of contracts, focusing on negligence, intentional harm, and strict liability with examples and explanations.

A much-used method for setting damages in tort litigation has come under criticism for giving bigger payouts to white males, but a campaign to end the practice remains below the radar for most ...

A look at the application of New Jersey's choice-of-law framework —the "significant relationship" test—to the issue of punitive damages.

Counsel in a common law breach of contract action should understand the types of damages that may be available to a prevailing plaintiff and how the law or parties may limit the amount or type of ...

Damages in tort law are overwhelmingly linked to a plaintiff's right to redress injury, and it is therefore reasonable to suppose that clarity on what damages ought to be available to a defamation ...

Catherine Sharkey, Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, has been named by the Association of American Law ...

Information about the Law Professor Blogs Network.Mike Wells has posted to SSRN Compensatory Damages and Dignitary Harm in the Upcoming Restatement of Constitutional Torts. The abstract provides ...

Tesla attorneys argued in a 98-page motion that if the massive jury verdict is allowed to stand, "it will chill innovation" ...

The law doesn't limit how much plaintiffs can recover for economic damages, such as medical bills and lost wages ... up with another law that put caps on jury awards in other types of tort cases. In ...

Information about the Law Professor Blogs Network.Martha Chamallas has posted to SSRN Trauma Damages, a paper she delivered at Southwestern's Concluding the Restatement (Third) of Torts symposium ...