Personal Injury Roundup No. 73 (4/2/10)

Happy Passover!  Happy Easter!  In torts…

Reform, Legislation, Policy

• The health care bill’s medical liability language.  (Wood/Point of Law)
• Two by Cathy Sharkey:  On Punies, On Preemption.

New Lawsuits

• Man sues neighbor over alleged deleterious effects of her use of electronic devices.  (ABA Journal)

Appeals

• Palestinian Authority loses another round in NY Appellate Division over $116M terror verdict.  (Turkewitz)
• NY:  $50,000 pain-and-suffering verdict for 90 days of back pain upheld on appeal.  (Hochfelder)

Trials, Settlements and Other Ends

• OR:  At least $1.3M dram shop settlement in the deaths of two women (KATU.com)
• NJ:  AstraZeneca wins first Seroquel case.  (Abnormal Use, via Olson/Point of Law)

Miscellaneous

• Panel on “Pluralism in Tort Law and Litigation” at the 13th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.  (Stier/Mass Tort Profs)

–CJR