Editor's page.

• Author: Sungaila, Mary-Christine

This issue of the Defense Counsel Journal focuses on three hot button areas: healthcare, punitive damages, and asbestos. On the healthcare front, Christopher Christensen and Allison Surcouf walk through company and insurers obligations under the Medicare reporting laws and Medicare Second Payer Act with regard to personal injury claims, while Tony Diab opines about what could happen to the U.S. Supreme Courts recent generic drug preemption decisions, were proposed FDA rules countermanding them to become law. Donna Burden and Ashlyn Mausolf survey the burgeoning landscape of punitive damage theories and claims against trucking companies, and propose strategic discovery and law and motion...