Friday, February 26, 2010
Personal Injury Roundup No. 68 (2/26/2010)
We finally got something like a winter storm this week in New England. But it's always sunny in the world of Torts. Or something.
Reform, Legislation, Policy
- Rep. Issa says health care reform must also include malpractice reform (Politico)
- Doctors think so too (CNN)
- ...and much of the discussion this week was on Twitter, where one can make sophisticated and complex arguments in 140 characters (fewer if you use a lot of emoticons) (WSJ Law Blog).
- Philip K. Howard on how to fix the legal system (TED.com
New Lawsuits
- IRS worker's widow sues widow of Joe Stack for wrongful death (Statesman.com)
- Lawsuit filed over hot dog injury (Deadspin)
- Drug & Device Law Blog isn't impressed by a qui tam action (Drug & Device Law Blog)
- The possibilities of litigation connected to Sea World trainer's death (Above the Law)
- On the Toyota litigation (NPR, Point of Law)
Trials, Settlements and Other Ends
- One jury awards $9.45 million in a PremPro trial (Law.com)
- ...while another awards nothing, finding no causation (Law.com)
Appeals
- Not torts-specific, but the Supreme Court's ruling on jurisdiction will obviously be important in tort litigation (SCOTUSblog)
- Florida $300M tobacco verdict reduced to $39M (Business Week)
Damages
- Former NFL player to pay over $1M to former daughter for abuse (First Coast News).
- Ex-prison guard ordered to pay $1.4M in rape case; collection looks unlikely (Standard.net)
Miscellaneous
- A new -- or at least newly-used -- theory for slip-and-fall cases in New York? (Turkewitz)
- I appear to have started blogging again about amusement park and carnival safety and litigation (MassTort.org).
--BC
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