IPO companies are sued more frequently than mature public companies for many reasons. In this week’s D&O Notebook, my colleague Walker Newell focuses on why “registration statement” or Section 11 ...

It is, by now, well known that not taking data protection seriously can prove costly for organizations. Since the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR") in 2018, ...

Comment k was intended to be a narrow exception to strict liability and only applied in cases where an otherwise useful product is "incapable of being made safe." On May 27, the Legal Intelligencer ...

A Pennsylvania judge has declined to impose strict liability on the owner of a cow that entered a Pennsylvania highway and was struck by a man's car, resulting in injury to a passenger, the driver's ...

Conservative advocacy group Right on Crime urged lawmakers to reform the “criminal mental state” requirement in federal criminal codes in a report published on Thursday. The report also criticized the ...

Last week we discussed what it takes to prove liability for an injury arising out of the conduct of emergency personnel providing medical services. Holiday shopping involves buying products. Today let ...

From the majority opinion in State v. Blake, by Justice Sheryl Gordon McCloud: Washington's strict liability drug possession statute, makes possession of a controlled substance a felony punishable by ...

You hear lawyers use the term “strict liability” when discussing certain types of injury to others or damage to property. It may never affect your life, but we all know that sometimes bad things ...