NEWS TO END THE WEEK
In the ever contentious area of TORT REFORM, an Oklahoma senator aims to halve contingency fees (although his state’s current fee allows up to 50% ).
Billion-Dollar Verdicts are a thing of the past, according to Bloomberg News .
And the nation’s preeminent medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine , has announced a change in its policy regarding disclosure of its authors’ conflicts of interest, according to today’s NY Times .