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Personal Injury Roundup No. 68 (2/26/2010)

By Christopher Robinette

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