Personal Injury Roundup No. 28 (3/13/09)

Last week was Chris’s spring break edition of the Roundup.  This week it’s mine; I am, depending on when you read this, either en route or at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.  Any central Texas readers who want to get together, send an e-mail.

Reform, Legislation, Policy

• Turkewitz on NY’s no-fault law (Turkewitz)
• Still more on CPSIA fallout (Overlawyered)
• Loser pays gone in Georgia (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
• “Sorry Works” having an audio conference on its results at the University of Illinois Medical Center (Sorry Works)

New Lawsuits

• Suit filed in Denver crash (9news.com)
• Suit seeks to force disclosure of cleaning product ingredients (NYT blog)

Trials, Settlements & Other Ends

• A defamation claim with a plaintiff’s verdict but no damages (NY Injury Cases Blog)
• Maine strip search case settles for $290K (Bangor Daily News)

Appeals

• Liptak on Levine v. Wyeth (NYT)

Miscellaneous

• Parody and defamation (TortsProf)
• WR Grace criminal trial continues (Grace Case Blog)

–BC