Gov. JB Pritzker should sign a bill that permits a person filing a case in an Illinois court to include out-of-state ...

If you file a civil lawsuit for breach of contract or because a tort is committed, the goal is to recover compensation for damages. But there are different kinds of damages. General damages are ...

Plaintiff's attorney, Christopher Brown, of Geiger Legal, said that he normally prefers to put the plaintiff on the stand ...

1 Title Remedying wrongful interferences in the making of gifts, whether outright or in trust: Equity’s venerable unjust enrichment jurisprudence, not tort law, is where to start.

Torts are civil acts that generally call for a remedy of money damages — car accidents, trip and fall, malpractice, food poisoning, are all common examples of torts.

Greater Georgia, a voter registration group founded by former U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler, is on a tour to educate the public about tort reform.

Most civil and common law regimes rest on the principle of equivalence between the prejudice and the amount of damages allocated to the victim. This rule of compensation is particularly strict in ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 837 into law this morning with the effective date of upon its signing. Known as the “tort reform” bill, the new law makes numerous changes to ...

Geoffrey Carpenter argued that the existing torts were sufficient and the publicity of this case alone has led to judges awarding higher damages in similar cases. He also urged the court that the ...