Vol. 70 No. 4, October 2003
Index
- Be a defense lawyer: help your clients minimize losses.
- Chapter XI: Appendix of forms.
- Exercise independent judgment.
- Frequently asked questions.
- Introduction.
- Loyalty and clienthood go together.
- Obedience.
- Partial bibliography.
- Preface and acknowledgments.
- Settlement issues.
- Special problems: handling an uncooperative insured.
- Start out right: identify your client or clients.
- The duty to give information and the duty of confidentiality.
- The rebirth of the IADC.
- U.S. Postal Service statement of ownership, management and circulation.
- Calendar of legal organization meetings.
- International Association of Defense Counsel tenets of professionalism.
- The case for a preservation safe harbor in requests for e-discovery: despite the courts' increased attention to dragnet requests for production of electronic materials, the scope of preservation should be addressed.
- The puzzle of defining "bodily injury" under the Warsaw Convention: laxity of courts in requiring an objective, palpable bodily injury will lead to a flood of insignificant claims for hurt feelings.
- The U.S. Supreme Court and punitive damages: on the road to reform: after years of developing its jurisprudence, the Supreme Court in State Farm signals that the days of runaway, irrational punitive damages may be ending.
- Extraterritoriality and punitive damages: is there a workable system? The U.S. Supreme should speak more definitively on the extent to which conduct in other instances and net worth may be used against defendants.
- When insurers go belly up: implications for insurers, policyholders and guaranty funds: it's not only the insured who suffers when there is an insurer insolvency; the ripples may cause damage to several other parties as well.
- Law firm in-house attorney-client privilege vis-a-vis current clients: courts should reconsider and limit the rule that in-house communications are not protected against current clients.
- Qui tam and the False Claims Act: criminal punishment in civil disguise: the qui tam provisions of the FCA are a serious threat to American industry, and they are subject to constitutional challenges on several grounds.
- Fear of future cancer part of pain and suffering.
- How much is an ounce of prevention worth?
- Ghostbusting prejudicial evidence: no haunting the manufacturer.
- Lost punitive damages as compensatory loss.