Personal Injury Roundup No. 77 (5/21/10)

New Suits

• Kirkland & Ellis will represent BP in oil-spill cases.  (ABA Journal)
• A DE physician is facing hundreds of tort and criminal actions based on molesting his patients.  Widener Law Dean Linda Ammons wrote a report to the governor detailing the incidents.  (Delaware OnlineBernabe/Torts)
• Family of MI child killed in raid sues police.  (CNN.com)

Appeals

• 4th Cir:  Trial judge erred in cutting a p.i. lawyer’s fee from $6M to $600,000.  (ABA Journal)
• NY:  Med mal failure to monitor for lupus award vacated; new trial ordered.  (Hochfelder)
• Federal Circuit affirms dismissal of vaccine-autism claims.  (Copland/Point of Law)

Damages 

• NY:  $5M pain-and-suffering verdict for AA back injury modified to $800,000.  (Hochfelder)

Trials, Settlements and Other Ends

• Fort Worth agrees to pay $2M in damages for Taser death.  (WFAA.com)
• Judge rules against plaintiffs in “backyard smoking” case.  (KDAT.com)

Miscellaneous

• VT disputes report critical of its response time in 2007 shootings.  (CNN.com)

–CJR