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Calculating the Damages

Debra Sydnor & Shirlethia Franklin

While some courts have allowed the use of race- and socio-economic-based statistical evidence when computing damages in tort actions, others have expressly rejected the use of such statistical evidence, questioning the appropriateness, reliability, and fairness of this evidence when used in this way.

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Beware New 'E-Prescriptions'

Tresa Baldas

Electronic prescriptions may be the cure for a doctor's bad handwriting, but they also carry an unhealthy dose of legal risks for the ill-prepared. That's what health-care-law attorneys are advising the medical profession as it embraces "e-prescribing" ' a rapidly growing practice whereby doctors are ditching pen and paper to order prescriptions through cyberspace.

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How to Handle Therapist Liability Cases for the Plaintiff

Joshua D. Koskoff

Under certain circumstances mental-health professionals ' whether psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers or others ' have a duty to protect innocent third parties from their dangerous patients. A look at <i>Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California</i>, and what it means in today's litigation.

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Suits Roll in over Recalled Drugs

Amanda Bronstad

Plaintiffs' attorneys have filed several lawsuits in recent months involving two recalled drugs, the generic blood thinner heparin, and prescription medication Digitek, that could signal a clean break from past actions that were far less successful against drugs Vioxx and Paxil.

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