Restatement of the Law Third,
This project is part of ALI’s ongoing revision of the Restatement Second of Torts. Portions of the Restatement Second have been superseded by the Restatement Third of Torts: Products Liability, Apportionment of Liability, Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, and Liability for Economic Harm.
This Restatement addresses medical liability.
At the 2024 Annual Meeting, the membership voted to approve Tentative Draft No. 2, marking the completion of the drafting process. The Reporters will prepare the final text.
This project was initially part of Torts: Miscellaneous Provisions but was produced separately beginning with the Tentative Draft for the 2023 Annual Meeting.
Nora Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA
Michael D. Green
Washington University School of Law, Saint Louis, MO
Mark A. Hall
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC
Kenneth S. Abraham
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
Brent R. Appel
Supreme Court of Iowa, Des Moines, IA
Shawn J. Bayern
Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, FL
Cheri L. Beasley
Raleigh, NC
J. Brett Busby
Supreme Court of Texas, Austin, TX
David G. Campbell
U.S. District Court, Phoenix, AZ
W. Jonathan Cardi
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC
Edward H. Cooper
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Amy J. St. Eve
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, Chicago, IL
Elizabeth Faiella
Faiella & Gulden, P.S., Winter Park, FL
Gary Feinerman
Latham & Watkins LLP, Chicago, IL
Richard H. Friedman
Friedman Rubin, Bremerton, WA
Mark Geistfeld
New York University School of Law, New York, NY
Myriam E. Gilles
Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY
Abbe R. Gluck
Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
Steve C. Gold
Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ
Charles E. Griffin
Butler Snow LLP, Ridgeland, MS
Heather Hansen
O'Brien & Ryan, LLP, Plymouth Meeting, PA
Richard L. Hasen
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
Stephen A. Higginson
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, New Orleans, LA
Jill R. Horwitz
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
Ralph A. Jacobs
Westport Island, ME
Nina A. Kohn
Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY
Joshua D. Koskoff
Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, Bridgeport, CT
Alexandra D. Lahav
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY
Beverly B. Martin
Center on Civil Justice, New York University School of Law, New York, NY
Margaret Penny Mason
Barclay Damon LLP, New Haven, CT
Dayna Bowen Matthew
George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
Leigh Martin May
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Jessica Miller
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, DC
Kenneth Murphy
Philadelphia, PA
Leonard Jack Nelson
Samford University School of Law, Birmingham, AL
Devin O'Brien
The Doctors Company, Napa, CA
David Orentlicher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, Las Vegas, NV
Jim M. Perdue
Perdue & Kidd, Houston, TX
Philip G. Peters
University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, MO
Robert L. Rabin
Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA
Christina C. Reiss
U.S. District Court, District of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Ellen Relkin
Weitz & Luxenberg, PC, New York, NY
Julius N. Richardson
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Columbia, SC
Christopher T. Robertson
Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA
Christopher John Robinette
Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA
William M. Sage
Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX
Nadia N. Sawicki
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL
Victor E. Schwartz
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Washington, DC
Marc M. Seltzer
Susman Godfrey LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Joanna Shepherd
Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA
Laura Sigman
Children's National Health System, Washington, DC
Larry S. Stewart
Stewart Tilghman Fox Bianchi & Cain, P.A. (Retired), West Palm Beach, FL
David Studdert
Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA
Thomas D. Waterman
Supreme Court of Iowa, Des Moines, IA
Malcolm E. Wheeler
Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP, Denver, CO
John Witt
Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
Jennifer Wriggins
University of Maine School of Law, Portland, ME
Allison Zieve
Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC
Benjamin C. Zipursky
Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY
Patrick Bailey
American College of Surgeons, Washington, DC
Laura A. Foggan
Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC
Kyle Palazzolo
American Medical Association Office of the General Counsel, Chicago, IL
Marc T. Amy
Jones Walker LLP, Lafayette, LA
José F. Anderson
University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD
James M. Anderson
RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
Christopher Edward Appel
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Washington, DC
Ronald G. Aronovsky
Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA
Michael F. Aylward
Morrison Mahoney LLP (Retired), Boston, MA
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, PA
Steven K. Balman
Shook & Johnson, Tulsa, OK
Jennifer S. Bard
University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, OH
William T. Barker
Dentons US LLP (Retired), Chicago, IL
James M. Beck
Reed Smith LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Charles L. Becker
Kline & Specter, PC, Philadelphia, PA
Neal S. Berinhout
AT&T (Retired), Atlanta, GA
Arthur H. Bryant
Clarkson Law Firm, Malibu, CA
Ellen M. Bublick
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Phoenix, AZ
John P. Burton
Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A., Santa Fe, NM
Karen K. Caldwell
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Stephen Calkins
Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, MI
Elena A. Cappella
Philadelphia, PA
Stephen Yee Chow
Stephen Y. Chow, PC, Boston, MA
George W. Conk
Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY
Christine Nero Coughlin
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC
Christopher Scott D'Angelo
Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Keith L. Davidson
Law Offices of Keith L. Davidson, Crystal Lake, IL
Deborah A. DeMott
Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC
Arthur R. Derse
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
John L. Diamond
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Anthony M. DiLeo
Anthony M. DiLeo, APC, New Orleans, LA
James B. Dolan
Bager, Dolan, Parker & Cohen, Boston, MA
Carla C. van Dongen
State Farm Insurance Companies (Retired), Bloomington, IL
John Fitzgerald Duffy
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
Holly A. Dyer
Foulston Siefkin LLP, Wichita, KS
Jordan Elias
Girard Sharp LLP, San Francisco, CA
Richard G. Feder
Philadelphia, PA
Jay M. Feinman
Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ
Arthur Norman Field
Field Consulting Services LLC, New York, NY
John F. Fischer
Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, Tulsa, OK
Paul J. Fraidenburgh
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Diego, CA
David R. Geiger
Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA
Sharon Stern Gerstman
Magavern Magavern Grimm LLP, Buffalo, NY
Elizabeth Barrowman Gibson
Toyota Motor North America, Inc., Plano, TX
Philip S. Goldberg
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Washington, DC
James Goudkamp
Oxford University, Oxford
Valerie P. Hans
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY
Paul T. Hayden
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Richard Conrad Henke
Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, MI
Stephen J. Herman
Fishman Haygood L.L.P, New Orleans, LA
Daniel Earle Hinde
Dan Hinde PLLC, Houston, TX
Sharona Hoffman
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, OH
Roger F. Holmes
Biss & Holmes, Anchorage, AK
Kevin D. Jewell
Court of Appeals, Fourteenth District of Texas, Houston, TX
Vincent R. Johnson
St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, TX
Allan Kanner
Kanner & Whiteley, LLC, New Orleans, LA
Leslie Carolyn Kendrick
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL
Harold H. Kim
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC
Erik Knutsen
Queen's University School of Law, Kingston
Ronald J. Krotoszynski
University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, AL
Peter B Kutner
University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, OK
Joseph H. Lang
Carlton Fields P.A., Tampa, FL
John P. Lavelle
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Douglas Laycock
University of Virginia School of Law (Retired), Charlottesville, VA
Lawrence C. Levine
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA
Michael E. Levine
Stewart Tilghman Fox Bianchi & Cain, P.A., Miami, FL
William Parker Lightfoot
Lightfoot Law, Washington, DC
Kyle D. Logue
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
William Cullen MacDonald
Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP, Bethesda, MD
Solangel Maldonado
Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ
Patrick A. Malone
Patrick Malone & Associates, PC, Washington, DC
D. Price Marshall
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
Thomas Wm. Mayo
Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law, Dallas, TX
James C. McKay
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Stephanie A. Middleton
The American Law Institute (Retired), Greenbrae, CA
Jim A. Moseley
Gray Reed & McGraw, LLP, Dallas, TX
Luther T. Munford
Butler Snow LLP, Ridgeland, MS
Valerie M. Nannery
American Constitution Society, Washington, DC
Donal Nolan
University of Oxford, Worcester College, Oxford
James M. Oleske
Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR
Ken Oliphant
University of Bristol Law School, Bristol
Robert S. Peck
Center for Constitutional Litigation, PC, Washington, DC
E. Farish Percy
University of Mississippi Law School, Oxford, MS
Jeffrey M. Pollock
Pollock Law, LLC, Princeton, NJ
Marlon A. Primes
Brennan, Manna & Diamond, Cleveland, OH
Ellen S. Pryor
UNT Dallas College of Law, Dallas, TX
Stuart A. Raphael
Court of Appeals of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Clifford A. Rieders
Rieders, Travis, Dohrmann, Mowrey, Humphrey & Waters, Williamsport, PA
Armand James Robertson
Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco (Retired), San Francisco, CA
Michael Lindsay Robinson
North Carolina Business Court, Winston Salem, NC
Daniel B. Rodriguez
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL
Joseph Sanders
University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX
Nathan A. Schachtman
Center for Truth in Science, Haddonfield, NJ
Milton R. Schroeder
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Paradise Valley, AZ
Robert P. Schuster
Robert P. Schuster, P.C., Jackson, WY
Myra C. Selby
Ice Miller LLP, Indianapolis, IN
Susan Sharko
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Florham Park, NJ
Richard A. Silver
Silver Golub & Teitell LLP, Stamford, CT
Kenneth W. Simons
University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA
Steven R. Smith
California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA
Douglas G. Smith
Alpheus LLC, Chicago, IL
Carl A. Solano
Superior Court of Pennsylvania (Retired), Philadelphia, PA
Shanin Specter
Kline & Specter, PC, Philadelphia, PA
Victor P. Stabile
Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Jane Stapleton
The University of Sydney Law School, Sydney
Michael K. Steenson
Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, MN
Evan B. Stephenson
Spencer Fane LLP, Denver, CO
James Y. Stern
William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA
H. Mark Stichel
RKW Law Group, Baltimore, MD
Laura Denvir Stith
Supreme Court of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
Guy Miller Struve
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (Retired), New York, NY
Catherine T. Struve
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, PA
John D. Taurman
Vinson & Elkins LLP (Retired), Washington, DC
David K. Thomson
New Mexico Supreme Court, Santa Fe, NM
Daniel Mack Traynor
U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND
Victor D. Vital
Haynes and Boone, LLP, Dallas, TX
Elizabeth Weeks
University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA
Merle Weiner
University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR
Steven O. Weise
Proskauer Rose LLP, Los Angeles, CA
W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY
Nicholas J. Wittner
Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI
Douglas P. Woodlock
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Richard W. Wright
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Evanston, IL
Eric H. Zagrans
Zagrans Law Firm LLC, Columbus, OH