Last week we came through for our readers with a $200 discount to ACI’s Drug/Medical Device Conference.

This week, we’ve gotten Law Journal Press, the publisher of Bexis’ book – officially Beck & Vale, “Drug & Medical Device Product Liability Deskbook,” (LJP 2004) – to offer it to blog readers at a 40% discount. That’s a more than a $100 savings from its ordinary price of $259.

If you like heavily-cited posts like the Limits (more…)

Earlier in the week we got tagged by Amlaw for one of our posts about how boilerplate design and manufacturing defect claims recently got dismissed under Twombly/Iqbal.

That’s cool. Amlaw drives a lot of traffic to little blogs like ours when it says “you’re it.”

But we were a little surprised by the attention given that post. We’ve been writing about applying (more…)

Our first ever overseas guest post comes all the way from Thailand, where
law firm reports on new Thai laws on product liability and their possible impact on/creation of product liability claims involving drugs and medical devices.
Needless to say neither Bexis nor Herrmann had anything to do with the substance of this post, as neither of them knows much about
beyond liking the food.
Take it away Doug.
Damage awards in Thailand for defective (more…)

is a Counsel resident in the Philadelphia office of Dechert LLP. He is the author of, among other things, Drug and Medical Device Product Liability Handbook (2004) (with Anthony Vale). He can be reached at james.beck@dechert.com.
is a partner resident in the Chicago office of Jones Day. He is the author of, among other things,
(2006), and Statewide Coordinated Proceedings: State Court Analogues to the Federal MDL Process (2d rev. ed. 2004) (more…)