Champions League group stage draw | Spurs and Chelsea's tough tests Archer hit 'a blessing in disguise' | Marnus Labuschagne interview 'We can dent Irish confidence' | Warren Gatland 'surprised' by loss And finally... Extra spice to language | Before the Great British Bake Off and the surging popularity of veganism, phrases such as "soggy bottom" and "Veganuary" would have drawn blank stares from Britons. But Phoebe Southworth explains how they are now part of a dramatic transformation of our culinary lexicon. … [Read more...] about Friday morning news briefing: ‘Shut down the streets’
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How Lawyers Enabled The Meltdown
Ribstein, however, says he doesn’t think the credit meltdown, at its core, can be solved by either litigation or regulation. “It was a failure of judgment, a failure to recognize the obvious risk,” he says. “The fact that a lot of executives bet their companies, like at Lehman, on the proposition that real estate prices will always go up, seems to indicate a governance failure, and I’m not sure how we fix that.” … [Read more...] about How Lawyers Enabled The Meltdown
New York High Court Rejects Medical Monitoring Claims Absent Injury
The Court of Appeals held that without a physical injury, an increased risk of future harm does not suffice to support a separate claim in the tort context. Slip Op. at 4. The majority examined New York precedent, which had permitted consequential damages, including medical monitoring, but only where a physical harm had already been proven. Id. at 5-6. Although recognizing its authority to create (and potential policy reasons favoring) a medical monitoring claim, the Court expressed concerns that such a cause of action could flood the already overburdened courts, diverting funding from individuals with actual physical injuries. Id. at 11-13. The Court also noted that the state legislature is better-positioned to determine whether a new cause of action for medical monitoring should be established, including analysis of the costs of implementing and adjudicating such claims, and how medical monitoring regimes would be … [Read more...] about New York High Court Rejects Medical Monitoring Claims Absent Injury
New FDA Commissioner Hits the Ground Running
Broadly targeting opioids as a class of drugs also may cast too wide a net. A recent article in the journal Substance Abuse reported “[t]he US opioid epidemic has changed profoundly in the last 3 years” in that “[h]eroin and fentanyl have come to dominate an escalating epidemic of lethal opioid overdose, whereas opioids commonly obtained by prescription play a minor role, accounting for no more than 15% of reported deaths in 2015.” The article urged that the changing etiology of opioid overdose “require[s] substantial recalibration of the US policy response.” … [Read more...] about New FDA Commissioner Hits the Ground Running
