Personal Injury Roundup No. 90 (1/14/11)

New Suits

•  Drivers in car collisions with moose in Newfoundland, Canada blame the province for failure to control the moose population. (BBC via Olson/Overlawyered) 
• Jilted bride sues groom for $100K for breach of promise to marry, IIED.  (Today Show via Olson/Overlawyered)

Appeals

• IL:  Court affirms summary judgment for a defendant in trampoline injury case and provides a helpful “suggested checklist for summary-judgment practice.”  Simmons v. Reichardt (PDF)
• WV:  A couple attempts to have the state’s med mal cap declared unconstitutional.  (J.D. Supra)

Reform, Legislation, Policy

•  New York’s Medicaid Trouble (The Pop Tort)
• A physician’s critique of MICRA (Capitol Weekly)

Damages

• NY:  Rotator cuff injury verdict:  $250K pain-and-suffering award; the case was complicated by legal malpractice and a preexisting shoulder injury.  (Hochfelder/New York Injury Cases Blog)

Miscellaneous

• Ron Miller at The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog has started his own roundup as part of a New Year’s Resolution.  Here’s a sample. 

Thanks to Gil Lenz for material this week.

–CJR