tort
Example Sentences
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They moved beyond their bread-and-butter fare of personal injury, adding departments for mass torts — cases that involves thousands of people suing over the same thing — and housing law.
From Los Angeles Times
Growth areas included private credit, bankruptcy and restructuring, large mergers and acquisitions, and mass torts litigation.
Over the last five years, experts say, the practice of funding big mass tort cases has boomed in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times
Now a new Federal Rule of Civil Procedure adopted by the Judicial Conference of the U.S. will discourage some of the litigation abuse that mars mass torts.
Plaintiffs have likewise objected, saying he is trying to wipe out those liabilities and buy it back on the cheap, free and clear of tort liabilities.
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