Personal Injury Roundup No. 64 (1/29/10)

Reform, Legislation, Policy

• TN:  Med Mal claims report for 2008 (Day on Torts)
• As a matter of federal law, truck drivers may no longer text.  (Day on Torts)
• VA:  A proposal to streamline UIM recovery passes key subcommittee (VLW Blog)
  

New Lawsuits

• First “death by dentures” suit filed.  (Olson/Point of Law)
   

Trials, Settlements and Other Ends

• MD:  Defense verdict in Baltimore med mal suit.  (Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog)

Damages

• NY:  Traumatic Back Injury Results in $3.26M verdict (New York Injury Cases Blog)

Miscellaneous

• Detroit lawyer fined for chasing victims of Continental/Colgan flight 3407 crash near Buffalo. (Turkewitz)
• Dorfman on Explaining Tort Law (Solum/Legal Theory Blog)
• Larry Solum’s “Download of the Week:”  John Gardner’s “What is Tort Law for?  Part 1–The Place of Corrective Justice”  (Legal Theory Blog)

–CJR