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The Edge - October 2007
  • Global Warming – A Convenient Nobel Prize
  • Florida Home Insurance: Adam Smith’s Worst Nightmare
  • The Subprime Slime Continues to Spread
The Edge Archives
November 2006
  • Pandemic Risk Roundtable
  • Tainted Spinach
  • Business Interruption Exposures Often Surpass Damage Exposures
  • To Settle or Not to Settle
April 2006
  • Tighten Your Seatbelts
  • Effect of Medicare Set Aside Regulations on Workers’ Compensation Claims
  • Deceptive Trade Practices - A Multi-Billion Dollar Threat
  • How Katrina Rocked the Surety Market
May 2005
  • Live Test - Lessons Learned from 2004 Hurricanes
  • Suits and Scandals - Professional Liability Implications
  • You Give Me Fever - Wildlife Center Rabies Claim
  • Terminal Collapse - All the Ingredients for Lengthy and Expensive Litigation
  • Hog Heaven - Livestock Risk Protection
October 2004
  • Tort Reform in the United States
  • Naked Short Selling
  • The Wal-Mart Wave: Will the Wal-Mart decision signal an increase in sex
    discrimination class actions filed against large corporations?
  • Exposed to Silica: The Next Asbestos?
  • Does Sarbanes-Oxley Really Matter?

Contrast - April 2008
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Advanced Strategies for Defending Complex Brain and Spinal Cord Cases - Part 2 of 3
  • Innovations in Jury Trial Practices are Abundant, But Do They Make Case Evaluation and Choice of Venue More Complicated?
Contrast Archives
October 2007
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Tort Reform: Is the Pendulum Swinging Back?
  • Advanced Strategies for Defending Complex Brain and Spinal Cord Cases - Part 1 of 3
August 2006
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Maximize the Benefits of Outcome Disclosure with Early Mediation
  • Several Recent Developments in Pre and Neo-Natal Care Might Lower
  • Risk of Lawsuits for Hospitals
September 2005
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Defending Against Claims of Medical Negligence
  • Interpreting a Decision Tree Analysis of a Lawsuit
March 2005
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Attacking Damages - (Without Adversely Affecting Your Liability Defenses in the New Litigation Environment): Part II
  • Tilting the Playing Field - Special Weapons and Tactics in Jury Selection: Part I
September 2004
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Defense Mediation Videos for Catastrophic Injury Cases
  • 20 Questions - An interview with Theresa Zagnoli, CEO, Zagnoli, McEvoy Foley LLC
  • Determining Present Cash Value of Claimed Future Economic Losses
July 2004
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Loss of Life Expectancy - A New Element of Damages?
  • Consumer Protection for Structured Settlements
  • 20 Questions - Installment Number 3 with John D. Gilleland, PhD, of Browne DecisionQuest, Chicago, Illinois
October 2003
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Punitive Damages Russian Roulette - Implications of the Campbell
  • Decision for Healthcare Defendants
  • Why Juries Turn Against Doctors
  • 20 Questions - Interview with Dr. Richard Waites, Attorney & Chief Trial Psychologist for The Advocates
June 2003
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Billion Dollar Awards
  • 20 Questions - Litigation Insights From Leading Trial Scientists