Defense Counsel Journal

IADC Committee Newsletters - Volume 86, Number 3

February 12, 2020

Corporate Counsel
Insurance and Reinsurance
Trial Techniques and Tactics
Medical Defense and Health Law
Civil Justice Response
Employment Law
Drug, Device and Biotechnology
Product Liability
Professional Liability

The IADC boasts more than 25 Committees through which members network, expand and build skills, and further the objectives of the defense bar and business community. IADC Committees publish newsletters monthly, and below are the newsletters that were published from April 2019 to July 2019.

Civil Justice Response Committee

• Alert: Deceptive Plaintiff Lawyer Advertising is Harmful to Public Health...and States are Taking Action by Mark Behrens and Ashley Garry (June 2019)

Corporate Counsel Committee

• From Flagship to Lifeboat: Bankruptcy in American Corporate Law by Joseph F. Speelman (May 2019)

Drug, Device and Biotechnology Committee

• The Scoop on the FDA's Updated Approach to the Dietary Supplement Market by Elizabeth L. Taylor and Lindsey M. Saad (May 2019)
• Alert: Deceptive Plaintiff Lawyer Advertising is Harmful to Public Health...and States are Taking Action by Mark Behrens and Ashley Garry (June 2019)
• An Update on Efforts to Create a Set of Rules for Multidistrict Litigation by Albert G. Bixler and Immon Shafiei (July 2019)

Employment Law Committee

• Employing Foreigners in Turkey by Dr. Döne Yalcin and Sinan Abra (May 2019)

Insurance and Reinsurance Committee

• Eleventh Circuit to Become Latest Circuit to Consider Whether Social Engineering Scams are Covered under Computer Fraud Provisions of Crime Policies by Eric R. Mull and Eric Retter (May 2019)
• The Quixotic Quest for Ambiguity in Insurance Contracts: Revisiting the Pollution Exclusion Clause by Harmon C. Hayden (June 2019)
• Bad Faith Personal Liability of Claims Adjusters Arising Out of Claims-Handling Conduct by Bryan M. Weiss (July 2019)

Medical Defense and Health Law Committee

• Penalties, Punitives, and Granny Cams: The Escalating Lure of Elder Abuse Litigation by Constance A. Endelicato (June 2019)
• Overcoming Sticker Price: The Emergence of the Reasonable Value Approach by Tom Dawson, Rick Farlow, Tom Geroulo, and Tyler Robinson (July 2019)

Product Liability Committee

• Fear of Cancer: The State of a New Worrying Era in France by Sylvie Gallage-Alwis (April 2019)
• Recent Supreme Court Decision Rejects Bare-Metal Defense in Maritime Cases by Jessie Zeigler and Courtney Hunter (May 2019)
• Design Thinking for Litigators by Whitney Frazier Watt and Jennifer Henry Jackson (June 2019)

Professional Liability Committee

• "In-Concert Liability Claims": One of the More Difficult Pitfalls for Lawyers to See and Avoid when Representing a Client Who May Have a Legal Relationship with a Non-Client by Brian G. Boos and Kelvin J. Fisher (June 2019)

Trial Techniques and Tactics Committee

• Turning Trends into Tactics by W. M. Bains Fleming, III (May 2019)
• Summary Judgment Evidence by James A. King (June 2019)

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