Monthly Archives: December 2020
3 Tips to Protect Yourself Against Product Liability Lawsuits
You might think that you have nothing in common with the companies that paid out product liability settlements after their products caused catastrophic damage. Your product is not Thalidomide, Roundup, those Toyota brakes that made the cars keep accelerating, or the prescription painkillers that helped fuel the opioid epidemic. Even if it seems to… Read More »
Force Majeure in Business Disputes in the Age of COVID-19
One of the six flags that has flown over Texas was that of France, from 1685 to 1690. Another brief period of French history that has made an impression on the history of Texas was the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 19th century. Napoleon’s legal reforms, with their emphasis on a clearly… Read More »
The Daubert Standard Is a Defendant’s Best Friend in Product Liability Lawsuits
If you had a penny for every time you had ever seen that clickbait headline that “gut doctors” allegedly tell you to avoid, you would have enough money to pay a six-figure judgment to every dissatisfied customer who had ever done business with your company. Misinformation, especially about medicine and science, has a way… Read More »
The Standard of Evidence for Lawsuits Involving Insurance Companies
There are many types of lawsuits, but what they all have in common is that the judge or jury bases their decision on evidence. Before the case makes it to trial (if it ever does; most cases do not go to trial), the parties in the lawsuit engage in discovery, where they send each… Read More »