Personal Injury Roundup No. 84 (10/15/10)

New Suits

• OH:  Woman badly burned in gynecological procedure sues hospital, doctor. (Justice News Flash)

Appeals

• Justice Sotomayor appears most sympathetic to state vaccine suit.  (ABA Journal); also Alberto Bernabe has the transcript.
• NY:  Brain damage from med mal at birth yields $56M verdict, including $22M for pain and suffering; will be resolved on appeal.  (Hochfelder/New York Injury Cases Blog)
• PA:  Lackawanna County doctor loses appeal after one of the largest med mal verdicts in northeast PA history.  (Scranton Times-Tribune)

Reform, Legislation, Policy

• Report:  Med mal costs expected to rise (Business Insurance)

Trials, Settlements and Other Ends

• PA:  2 teens receive $185K, lawyer receives $425K from school district in webcam spying settlement.  (ABA Journal)

Miscellaneous

• Podcast on med mal risk management (Bernabe)
• More Wacky Warnings (Frith/The California Civil Justice Blog, via Olson/Overlawyered)
• R.I.P. Richard Nagareda (TortsProf)

--CJR