Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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 ...

Tort reform, the oft-cited and controversial effort to limit certain types of liability against American industry, is on a course for self-destruction -- unless the terms and issues are defined. In ...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed two pieces of legislation that would limit lawsuits in the state. Kemp has made tort reform one of his main priorities for the spring legislative session, saying that ...

Tort law is an area of law which is meant to protect the people from any wrong-doing. The purpose of this law is to ensure that the wrong-doer has to pay damages to the victim. Physical injury falls ...

Under Florida law, negligence is the failure to use reasonable care. Negligence is the failure to use the care that a reasonable person would use under the same or similar circumstances or the doing ...

Most Americans would agree that "frivolous" lawsuits should be avoided, but how can the merits of a malpractice complaint be determined outside of the regular court system? What should be done to ...