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The Brief is a quarterly magazine published by the American Bar Association (ABA) for lawyers practicing tort and insurance law. It is aimed at bringing together plaintiffs' attorneys, defense attorneys, and insurance and corporate counsel to exchange information and ideas. The magazine explores all aspects of tort and insurance law, with the goal of enhancing the quality of law delivered by its readers and stimulating thought, discussion, and action to improve the tort and insurance systems. The ideas expressed in the articles do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the ABA, and the magazine strives for balance and inclusivity by covering all sides of an issue. The magazine welcomes submissions and ideas from its readers. [Extracted from the article]

The article several alternatives with regards to the standard that should be applied to determine whether a liability insurer has breached its duty to make reasonable settlement decisions, and it mentions the disregard the limits (DTL) standard that is contained in section 24 of the American Law Institute's draft "Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance" treatise. An equal consideration (EC) standard is examined, along with judge-made law and duties to defend and settle.

This article uses empirical data to analyse the meaning of rule of law with Chinese characteristics. It compares rule of law data on China, Hong Kong and Singapore from the World justice Project and finds patterns of more limited protection of individual rights and fewer limits on governmental powers. It then uses Geert Hofstede's cultural dimensions to consider whether those patterns are related to common cultural characteristics. It finds low scores on the cultural value of individualism in those three jurisdictions are correlated with lower protection for individual rights, and that high scores on Hofstede's Power Distribution Index are inversely correlated with strong governmental powers. It concludes that rule of law with Chinese characteristics means a version of rule of law with more limited protections for individual rights and with strong governmental powers with fewer legal limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A novel nonlinear reduced-order-modeling technique for computational aerodynamics and aeroelasticity is presented. The method is based on a Taylor series expansion of a frequency-domain harmonic balance computational fluid dynamic solver residual. The first- and second-order gradient matrices and tensors of the Taylor series expansion are computed using automatic differentiation via FORTRAN 90/95 operator overloading. A Ritz-type expansion using proper orthogonal decomposition shapes is then used in the Taylor series expansion to create the nonlinear reduced-order model. The nonlinear reduced-order-modeling technique is applied to a viscous flow about an aeroelastic NLR 7301 airfoil model to determine limit cycle oscillations. Computational times are decreased from hours to seconds using the nonlinear reduced-order model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A summary is presented of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), passed by the U.S. Congress in 2002, and then, amended and extended for next seven years in 2007.

Examines the television program `The Practice.' Depiction of the rule of law in the program; Explanation on deconstruction and postmodernism; Significance of the program.

Looks at the application of a pragmatics paradigm from linguistics to the role of meaning in defamation law in the United States. Consistency of courts' application of common law defamation rules with pragmatics; How the constitutionalization of defamation law eroded the role of meaning and distorted the use of linguistic factors.

The Brief is the American Bar Association's (ABA's) magazine for lawyers practicing tort and insurance law. It is published quarterly by ABA Publishing for the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) of the ABA. TIPS brings together plaintiffs attorneys, defense attorneys, and insurance and corporate counsel for the exchange of information and ideas. [Extracted from the article]

The Brief is the American Bar Association's magazine for lawyers practicing tort and insurance law. It is published quarterly by ABA Publishing for the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) of the ABA. The ideas expressed in The Briefs articles do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section or the ABA and should not be so construed. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a case study of a 50 year old man with a medical history of hypertension and methamphetamine abuse. His condition deteriorated while being transported to a triage center by helicopter due to the development of flexor posturing, hypertension, and relative bradycardia. An emergent external ventricular drain (EVD) was placed which stopped functioning after two days. His neurologic examination was limited secondary to sedation and mechanical ventilation.