Corporate and trial lawyers, corporate executives and government officials responsible for managing class action litigation are enjoined to attend a seminar featuring a series of lectures relative to ‘Innovative Strategies for Litigating Class Action Suits’ on May 11 & 12, 2006 at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Washington.
According the program organizers, this seminar brings together a national panel of leaders from the courts and both sides of the class action bar to explain the most recent and important developments in state and federal laws affecting class actions and class arbitrations. Legal experts will share innovative strategies to successfully litigate and meet the business and legal challenges of class actions.
With the French consumer associations pushing for the change, class action lawsuits will soon be introduced into France's legal system. A legislation was drafted by French Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry Thierry Breton during a weekly cabinet meeting November 8.
Currently, each claimant must be named individually in a lawsuit wherein the French consumers can be collectively represented by a legitimate association.
This time around, class actions still will only be brought by national consumer associations. If court decides to hear the initial claim, additional claimants can be added to the suit. The French version of class actions will be limited to goods or services valued less than 2000 euros ($2,550). Notably, the bill would exclude health-related issues.
This year’s edition of The Annual Aviation Health Conference will be held on 2nd to 3rd November 2006 at the Holiday Inn Regents Park in London, UK. The gathering will put a great deal on travel-related health issues, one of the biggest challenges facing the aviation industry today.
Participants, recognizing new threats to passenger safety constantly appearing, is expected to tackle an assortment of health research and regulations, and has drawn the most important issues that need to be discussed -- that of the transmission of infectious diseases in aircraft, DVT, cabin air quality and environment, cosmic radiation and in-flight medical incidents.