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Anesthesia awareness is a condition that causes patients to “accidentally” wake up during surgery and in many cases, causes patients to see and feel things they shouldn’t while under the knife.

Do you ever see a selfie and wonder what the person had to go through in order to capture the picture?

There has been much written about several cases from the United States Supreme Court which appear to narrow the “liberality” afforded Plaintiffs in products liability cases who claim exposure to products manufactured by out-of-state Defendants, or sold ‘into’ the state by out-of-state distributors.

Several Connecticut schools in 2017 discovered asbestos that required removal.

In Turcotte, et al. v. 3M Company, et al., the Court (Gibney, J.) issued its ruling in response to the motions to apply foreign law filed by several defendants in this lawsuit.

The mini-media firestorm over the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”)’s decision to no longer assess ‘in place’ asbestos may have more to do with President Trump’s historical comments about asbestos than with the effect of the actual decision.In 1987, developer Donald Trump said it was “100 percent safe” once installed, and that the effort to regulate asbestos and hold manufacturers liable was part of a conspiracy inspired by what he called mob-controlled abatement contractors.

In New Jersey, absent negligent construction or repair, a land-owner does not owe a duty of care to a pedestrian injured as a result of the condition of the sidewalk abutting the landowner’s property.

Let’s face it: Everything, including your car, will be fully automated within the next decade or two. Full automation will likely increase productivity and reduce the stress of daily life.

Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the April 4, 2017 judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Vanessa L. Bryant, J.) after finding the arguments raised on appeal to be without merit.

The “bare-metal defense” generally maintains that a product manufacturer is not liable for asbestos-related injuries if the original product was “bare metal” and asbestos materials were later added to the product.