United States: Personal Injury

The Seventh Circuit recently issued two decisions — one in mid-February 2026, one in early March — that together touch nearly every corner of civil practice. One is a cautionary tale about appellate...

The Seventh Circuit issued two landmark decisions in early 2026 that fundamentally reshape civil litigation practice. One establishes that strategic choices at summary judgment constitute waiver rather than forfeiture, foreclosing appellate review even when counsel changes hands. The other applies the Supreme Court's recent Hippocratic Medicine framework to organizational standing, potentially ending the diversion-of-resources theory that advocacy groups have relied upon for decades.

The rising popularity of AI-generative technology is often in the news these days, ranging from discussion of the enormous potential associated with said technologies to very real concerns about how the technologies...

As we previously reported, animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), sued the National Institutes of Health and Mental Health in federal court seeking to compel the defendants...

On March 4, 2026, Judge Chad F. Kenney of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed with prejudice a putative class action asserting claims against a global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and certain of its executives under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

On March 4, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, a case arising from a December 2017 highway collision in Illinois.

Courts often grapple with the timing of malicious prosecution claims in the context of triggering Coverage B under a liability policy when an exoneration takes place years or decades after the initial prosecution takes place.

On January 21, 2026, in Yeh v. Barrington Pacific, LLC, Case No. B337904, 2026 Cal. App. LEXIS 30 (Cal. App. Jan. 21, 2026), the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District held that plaintiffs have standing to sue under the ICRAA …

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently issued a decision, in Encore Industries, Inc. v. Travelers Property Casualty Company of America, reaffirming long‑established Ohio law...