Friday, December 3, 2010
Personal Injury Roundup No. 87 (12/3/10)
New Suits
- Maryland bed bug liability suits (WaPo)
Appeals
- MD: Court of Appeals reinstates a wrongful death suit under FELA, finding the trial judge erred in failing to give an instruction on the inapplicability of assumption of risk. (Miller/The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog)
- More on the negligent-golfing case on appeal in NY (Olson/Overlawyered)
- Washington Supreme Court abandons economic loss rule (Jackson on Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts via Olson/Overlawyered)
Reform, Legislation, Policy
- Hospital safety: No improvement seen--Is malpractice litigation at fault? (Conk/Otherwise)
- Malpractice Premiums and Caps (Miller/Accident and Injury Lawyer Blog)
- Alberto Bernabe on med mal waivers (Torts)
- PA: Rendell vetoes "stand your ground" (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Trials, Settlements and Other Ends
- "Extenze" class action settlement (Frank/Point of Law)
Miscellaneous
- More on toxicogenomics (Couch/Abnormal Use)
- Stella Liebeck: The Movie (Turkewitz/New York Personal Injury Law Blog)
- NHTSA report indicates a rise in drug-related auto driver fatalities in the last 5 years (Day on Torts)
--CJR
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