Nebraska Enacts COVID-19 Protections for Businesses On May 25, 2021, Gov. Pete Ricketts signed Nebraska’s COVID-19 liability protection bill. The law will protect businesses… Read More
June 3, 2021
The Spring 2021 edition of the ILR Research Review comes as COVID-19 is on the downswing in the United States, and it covers recent ILR research that… Read More
June 2, 2021
New York Enacts COVID-19 Protections for Businesses On May 5, 2021, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed New York’s COVID-19 liability protection bill. The law will… Read More
May 27, 2021
Washington Enacts COVID-19 Protections for Businesses On May 10, 2021, Gov. Jay Inslee signed Washington’s COVID-19 liability protection bill. The law will protect healthcare… Read More
May 21, 2021
South Carolina Enacts COVID-19 Liability Protections for Businesses On April 28, 2021, Gov. Henry McMaster signed South Carolina’s COVID-19 liability protection bill. The law will… Read More
May 12, 2021
North Dakota Enacts COVID-19 Liability Protections for Businesses and Healthcare Providers On April 23, 2021, Gov. Doug Burgum signed North Dakota’s COVID-19 liability protection bill. Read More
May 12, 2021
Indiana Supplements COVID-19 Liability Protections for Healthcare Providers On April 29, 2021, Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Indiana’s latest COVID-19 liability protection bill into law. The… Read More
May 12, 2021
California’s controversial Prop. 65 has created a cottage industry for plaintiffs’ lawyers looking to cash in by filing frivolous lawsuits. The law requires businesses to… Read More
May 10, 2021
More than 70 percent of Pelican State residents do not support diverting money from coastal erosion lawsuits away from efforts to restore Louisiana’s coastline. Unfortunately,… Read More
May 4, 2021
Congress established the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be the ultimate regulator over how drugs are made and sold in the U.S. But a… Read More
April 30, 2021
Louisiana might be known as “The Sportsman’s Paradise” but as anyone who’s driven down I-10 and seen those infamous trial lawyer billboards knows, the state’s… Read More
April 30, 2021
ILR’s latest research paper examines new developments in the long-running saga of lawyer-generated coastal erosion lawsuits against Louisiana energy companies. A recent, $100 million settlement… Read More
April 29, 2021
ILR’s Summit 2020: Future in Focus featured a panel discussion on ILR’s newest research paper, Tort Liability Costs for Small Businesses. The panel was turned… Read More
April 26, 2021
First posted on the AmCham Belgium website EU’s new Directive on Representative Actions would enable a consumer collective action systemThis could lead to an… Read More
April 22, 2021
COVID-19 has fundamentally disrupted the American legal system. The country’s state courts, where the majority of cases are heard, have largely been unable to continue… Read More
April 15, 2021
Washington, D.C.— Harold Kim, president of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, made the following statement on Gov. Jim Justice signing Senate Bill 275,… Read More
April 9, 2021
The phrase “resident after death” sounds like something out of a Walking Dead edition of House Hunters, but it’s a key question in the biggest… Read More
April 2, 2021
West Virginia is on the verge of making history. Yesterday, its House of Delegates passed Senate Bill 275, the West Virginia Appellate Reorganization Act. SB 275 will create an Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA)—a significant legal reform… Read More
March 31, 2021