Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

In December 2014, Trey Salinas was driving an F-350 pickup with passengers Jennifer Blake and her three children in Odessa, Texas. A winter weather advisory was issued warning that ice could ...

In Westfield Ins. Group v. Pure Renovations, LLC, 2019-Ohio-4773, 2019 Ohio App. LEXIS 4829, the Court of Appeals of Ohio considered whether the lower court properly granted the defendant’s summary ...

The Appellate Division has reaffirmed trial courts' authority to require a legal malpractice plaintiff to present expert testimony to demonstrate proximate cause. The Appellate Division has reaffirmed ...

The initial step to a solution is correctly identifying the problem. If the true nature of a problem isn’t determined, any implemented solution will be ineffective. So obvious, it can precipitate a ...

(CN) - The Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed jury instructions on negligence that resulted in a judgment of more than $183,000 for a train engineer who permanently injured his hand while working for ...

In their Trial Practice column, Robert Kelner and Gail Kelner discuss a recent Court of Appeals decision that addressed the issue of whether a worker was the sole proximate cause of his own injury by ...

Yesterday’s argument in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez was, in a word, unsatisfying. The question of governmental liability for a law enforcement shooting of innocent individuals is extremely ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Joe Sternberg, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters/Tom Williams/Zuma Press/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP ...

My friend caused a vehicular accident and hit a 5-year-old boy who was then unsupervised by his parents. My question is simple: can we shift the liability to the parents of the boy, who were negligent ...