Restatement of the Law Third,

Torts: Concluding Provisions

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 Portions of the Restatement Second have been superseded by the Restatement Third of Torts: Products Liability, Apportionment of Liability, Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, and Liability for Economic Harm.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 topics not covered in another part of the Restatement Third of Torts that either require updating since publication of the Restatement Second or were not previously addressed but should be covered in a modern torts Restatement. These topics will include medical liability, vicarious liability, wrongful death and survival actions, among others.

Status Details

At its meeting on February 25, 2021, the Council approved a revised draft of Illustrations 5-8 in § 2 of Chapter 11 (Liability of Medical Professionals and Institutions). The revisions are included in the Reporters’ Memorandum dated February 5, 2021, posted here.

In addition, the Council approved the following material from Council Draft No. 1: § 48 A (Loss of Spousal Consortium); § 48 B (Loss of Child Consortium); § 48 C (Loss of Parental Consortium); § 48 D (Alienation of Affections Abolished); and § 48 E (Criminal Conversation Abolished).

At its meetings on October 13 and October 22-23, 2020, the Council approved §§ 1-3 of Chapter 11, Liability of Medical Professionals and Institutions, in Council Draft No. 1, excluding Illustrations 5-8 in § 2. The Reporters may revise the excluded Illustrations in a future draft. There was insufficient time to discuss the remainder of the Council Draft.

The Council approved the initiation of this project in January 2019. ALI members may join the Members Consultative Group.

All draft approvals are subject to the discussion at the meeting and usual editorial prerogative.

Reporters

Nora Freeman Engstrom Stanford Law School
Stanford, CA

Michael D. Green Wake Forest University School of Law
Winston Salem, NC

Associate Reporters

Mark A. Hall Wake Forest University School of Law
Winston Salem, NC

Tanya D. Marsh Wake Forest University School of Law
Winston Salem, NC

Guy Miller Struve Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (Retired)
New York, NY

Advisers

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 McGuireWoods LLP
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

Norman L. Epstein California Court of Appeal, 2nd Appellate District, Division Four
Los Angeles, CA

Elizabeth Faiella Faiella & Gulden, P.S.
Winter Park, FL

Gary S. Feinerman U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Chicago, IL

Richard H. Friedman Friedman Rubin
Bremerton, WA

Mark Geistfeld New York University School of Law
New York, NY

Myriam Gilles Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
New York, NY

Abbe R. Gluck Yale Law School (on Leave From Council)
New Haven, CT

Steve Gold Rutgers Law School - Newark
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, Irvine School of Law
Irvine, 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 Drake Speciale LLC
Philadelphia, PA

Nina A. Kohn Syracuse University College of Law
Syracuse, NY

Joshua D. Koskoff Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder
Bridgeport, CT

Alexandra D. Lahav University of Connecticut School of Law
Hartford, CT

Beverly B. Martin U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Atlanta, GA

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

Frank M. McClellan Temple University Beasley School of Law
Philadelphia, PA

Jessica Miller Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Washington, DC

Kenneth Murphy Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Philadelphia, PA

Leonard Jack Nelson Samford University School of Law
Birmingham, AL

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, Jr. 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 John Robinette Southwestern Law School
Los Angeles, CA

William M. Sage New York University School of Law
New York, NY

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

Amy J. St. Eve U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
Chicago, IL

Larry S. Stewart Stewart Tilghman Fox Bianchi & Cain, P.A. (Retired)
Miami, FL

Guy Miller Struve Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (Retired)
New York, NY

David Studdert Stanford Law School
Palo Alto, CA

Stephen D. Sugarman University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley, 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

Liaison

Patrick Bailey American College of Surgeons
Washington, DC

Leonard A. Nelson American Medical Association Office of the General Cousel
Chicago, IL

David Sousa Curi
Raleigh, NC

Members Consultative Group

Marc T. Amy Jones Walker LLP
Lafayette, LA

José F. Anderson University of Baltimore School of Law
Baltimore, MD

Christopher Edward Appel Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Washington, DC

Ronald G. Aronovsky Southwestern Law School
Los Angeles, CA

Michael F. Aylward Morrison Mahoney LLP
Boston, MA

Tom Baker University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law
Philadelphia, PA

Jennifer S. Bard University of Cincinnati College of Law
Cincinnati, OH

William T. Barker Dentons US LLP
Chicago, IL

James M. Beck Reed Smith LLP
Philadelphia, PA

Charles L. Becker Kline & Specter, PC
Philadelphia, PA

Neal S. Berinhout AT&T (Retired)
Dallas, TX, USA

Ellen M. Bublick University of Arizona, James E. Rogers 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, USA

Stephen Yee Chow Hsuanyeh Law Group, 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

Deborah A. DeMott Duke University School of Law
Durham, NC

Anthony M. DiLeo Anthony M. DiLeo, APC
New Orleans, LA

James B. Dolan, Jr. Bager, Dolan, Parker & Cohen
Boston, MA

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

David R. Geiger Foley Hoag LLP
Boston, MA

Alex C. Geisinger Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Philadelphia, PA

Sharon Stern Gerstman Magavern Magavern Grimm LLP
Buffalo, NY

Donald G. Gifford University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law
Baltimore, MD

Philip S. Goldberg Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Washington, DC

James Goudkamp Oxford University
Oxford, England

Paul T. Hayden Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Daniel Earle Hinde Schiffer Hicks Johnson PLLC
Houston, TX

Sharona Hoffman Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Cleveland, OH

Roger F. Holmes Biss & Holmes
Anchorage, AK

Vincent R. Johnson St. Mary's University School of Law
San Antonio, TX

Allan Kanner Kanner & Whiteley, LLC
New Orleans, LA

Harold H. Kim U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Washington, DC

Nancy S. Kim Chicago-Kent College of Law
Chicago, IL

Erik Knutsen Queen's University School of Law
Kingston, Canada

Peter B Kutner University of Oklahoma College of Law
Norman, OK

Joseph H. Lang, Jr. Carlton Fields P.A.
Tampa, FL

John P. Lavelle, Jr. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Philadelphia, PA

Douglas Laycock University of Virginia School of Law
Charlottesville, VA

Kyle D. Logue University of Michigan Law School
Ann Arbor, MI

Solangel Maldonado Seton Hall University School of Law
Newark, NJ

Patrick A. Malone Patrick Malone & Associates, PC
Washington, DC

D. Price Marshall, Jr. U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas
Little Rock, AR

James C. McKay, Jr. Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
Washington, DC

Jim A. Moseley Gray Reed & McGraw, LLP
Dallas, TX

Luther T. Munford Butler Snow LLP
Ridgeland, MS

Donal Nolan University of Oxford, Worcester College
Oxford, England

Robert S. Peck Center for Constitutional Litigation, PC
Washington, DC

Jeffrey M. Pollock Fox Rothschild LLP
Lawrenceville, NJ

Marlon A. Primes Office of U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Ohio
Cleveland, OH

Ellen S. Pryor UNT Dallas College of Law
Dallas, TX

Clifford A. Rieders Rieders, Travis, Humphrey, Waters & Dohrmann
Williamsport, PA

Armand James Robertson, II Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco (Retired)
San Francisco, CA, USA

Joseph Sanders University of Houston Law Center
Houston, TX

Nathan A. Schachtman New York, NY, USA

Milton R. Schroeder Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Phoenix, AZ

Robert P. Schuster Robert P. Schuster, P.C.
Jackson, WY

Kenneth W. Simons University of California, Irvine School of Law
Irvine, CA

Douglas G. Smith Chicago, IL, USA

Carl A. Solano Superior Court of Pennsylvania (Retired)
Philadelphia, PA

Shanin Specter Kline & Specter, PC
Philadelphia, PA

Jane Stapleton Christ's College, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England

Michael K. Steenson Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Saint Paul, MN

Evan B. Stephenson Spencer Fane, LLP
Denver, CO

H. Mark Stichel Astrachan Gunst Thomas, P.C.
Baltimore, MD

Laura D. Stith Supreme Court of Missouri (Senior Judge)
Jefferson City, MO

Andrew H. Struve Buchalter APC
Irvine, CA

Catherine T. Struve University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law
Philadelphia, PA

Daniel Mack Traynor U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota
Bismarck, ND

Carla C. van Dongen State Farm Insurance Companies
Bloomington, IL

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

Torts: Concluding Provisions

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.

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