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On this edition, Dr. Frederick A. Raffa of Raffa Consulting Economists discusses the different types of damages arising from the Gulf oil spill including business and personal losses inside and outside the spill area, how claimants need to demonstrate their losses, the amount of litigation to this point and how long we might expect to experience fallout from the spill. Copyright© 2010 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit www.lexisnexis.com/community/tortslaw.

On this edition, a review of recent news stories as reported by the editors of LexisNexis Mealey Publications including the FDA's restriction on the use of Avandia and a Texas jury's $27.5 million award for mesothelioma claims. Copyright© 2010 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit www.lexisnexis.com/community/tortslaw.

On this edition, a review of recent news stories as reported by the editors of LexisNexis® Mealey's™, including a Pennylvania jury's finding that Prempro did not cause breast cancer in two women and the 6th Circuit's reversal of preemption-based dismissal of diet drug negligence claims. Copyright© 2010 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit www.lexisnexis.com/community/tortslaw.

On this edition, a review of recent news stories as reported by the editors of LexisNexis® Mealey's™, including reinstatement of a negligent design claim on appeal in a diet drug death case and the 3rd Circuit's finding that defect and warranty claims for a vagus nerve stimulator are preempted. Copyright© 2010 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit www.lexisnexis.com/community/tortslaw.

On this edition, a review of recent news stories as reported by the editors of LexisNexis® Mealey's™, including the FDA advisers' recommendation that Avandia stay on the market and a jury ordering a nursing home chain to pay $671 million for staffing violations. Copyright© 2010 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit www.law.lexisnexis.com/community/tortslaw.

On this edition, a review of recent news stories as reported by the editors of LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Publications. Copyright© 2010 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit www.law.lexisnexis.com/community/tortslaw.

On this edition, a review of recent news stories as reported by the editors of LexisNexis Mealey Publications. Copyright© 2010 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit www.law.lexisnexis.com/community/tortslaw.

On this edition, Bruce L. Simon of Pearson Simon Warshaw & Penny LLP, and co-author of the Matthew Bender Practice Guide: California Unfair Competition and Business Torts, discusses California's Unfair Competition Law, recent changes and the state Supreme Court Tobacco II cases. Copyright© 2010 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit www.law.lexisnexis.com/community.

A federal jury in Cleveland finds defendants in a welding fume case, and, $16.5 million is awarded in a fentanyl pain patch death lawsuit. These and other stories from the news desk of the Lexisnexis Product Liability & Toxic Torts Practice center. Copyright© 2008 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit www.law.lexisnexis.com/practiceareas/torts.