Personal Injury Roundup No. 67 (2/19/10)

Okay.  I admit it’s been a very busy week for me, and I haven’t spent as much time on the Roundup as usual.  However, that being said, I have trolled all my typical sources of information.  It just seems to be a slow week.  Perhaps the Olympics are to blame.  In any event, I’m outsourcing this week’s Roundup.  If you have information to contribute, send it in.  I’ll get the word out about your interesting new suit, appeal, settlement, etc.

Reform, Legislation, Policy

• New RAND Publication: The U.S. Experience with No-Fault Automobile Insurance: A Retrospective
• The IL Supreme Court struck down caps on med mal awards last week.  Will awards climb as a result?  (Medill Reports)
  

New Lawsuits

Trials, Settlements and Other Ends

• $4.1 M settlement for malicious prosecution leading to a decade of imprisonment.  (CNN)

Appeals

• Dismissal of suit for floor hockey gym class injury upheld on appeal (New York Injury Cases Blog)

Damages

• Police car strikes bicyclist, breaking both of his legs; Appeals court upholds additur from $100,000 pain-and-suffering verdict to $750,000.  (New York Injury Cases Blog)

Miscellaneous

• Ron Miller on Personal Injury Leads Cold Calls (The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog)
• Monday’s Guest Blogger, Anita Bernstein, on “Tort Law, Distributive Justice, and Sociolegal Scholarship.”  (Via Solum/Legal Theory Blog)

Thanks to Mark Behrens for material this week.

–CJR