Personal Injury Roundup No. 40 (6/19/09)

I hope you are enjoying the opportunity to focus exclusively on scholarship as much as I am.  Without further ado...

Reform, Legislation, Policy

• Obama open to med mal reform, but not damage caps.  (ABA Journal)
• States reform med mal for ER docs. (Point of Law)  On this issue, AZ bill advances. (AZCapitolTimes)  I prefer a different approach.

Trials, Settlement and Other Ends

• In NC:  a $500,000 alienation of affections and criminal conversation award.  (Overlawyered)  Again, I prefer a different approach.  (I'm feeling contrary.) 
• Jury awards $1.8M in MI med mal death case.  (Morning Sun)

Damages

• Will Exxon now pay for the Valdez spill?  (The Pop Tort)  (See also Legal Newsline.com)

Appeals    

• A decision that was to clarify PA products law has been dismissed as improvidently granted.  (Drug & Device Law)

Miscellaneous

• VA law firm Williams Mullen has started a new business tort blog, Unfair Business Practices.  (Day on Torts)

--CJR