Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice

  • March 05, 2025

    Willkie Farr Partner Gets $23K Fee In Suit Over Media Tip

    A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner has won the bulk of a $27,420 bid to recoup personal attorney fees after prevailing in a First Amendment feud with his former landlord's lawyer over a media leak, with a judge clipping just $3,550 for lack of a novel legal issue.

  • March 05, 2025

    Boy Band, Music Exec Hit With $3.4M Verdict In Fla. Trial

    A Florida state court jury has awarded an entertainment company $3.4 million in a lawsuit that accused a former California boy band manager of tortuously interfering with the contracts of individual band members, and also accused the members of defamation for remarks that they were abused and held hostage in their own homes.

  • March 05, 2025

    Airplane Parts Makers Say Fatal Crash Order Invites 'Chaos'

    A pair of airplane parts makers have urged the North Carolina Supreme Court to reverse the dismissal of their appeal in a fatal crash case, arguing that the lower appellate court "usurped" the justices' authority by tossing the appeal despite an active stay order from the high court.

  • March 05, 2025

    Four Firms Seek Top Roles In Pa. Warehouse Fire Litigation

    Lawyers from four plaintiffs firms across the country have asked a Philadelphia judge to name them class counsel in recently filed litigation over the effects of an aircraft parts warehouse fire and also requested that the court consolidate all related lawsuits in the city.

  • March 05, 2025

    Alex Jones Escapes Immediate Sandy Hook Payment Bid

    Bankrupt Infowars host Alex Jones has escaped a request to immediately pay more than $1 billion to the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims who sued him for defamation, the Connecticut Appellate Court has ruled.

  • March 05, 2025

    Combs Prosecutors Deny 'Outrageous' Race Bias Claim

    Prosecutors told a Manhattan federal judge that hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs' claims that no white defendant has ever faced a similar case in an effort to dismiss one of the criminal counts against him were "outrageous" and "illogical," and conveniently ignored the allegations of a yearslong pattern of violence and sexual coercion.

  • March 05, 2025

    Pa. Justices Hint Parents' Liability Waivers Aren't Binding

    Pennsylvania law may not allow parents to waive the right to a jury trial on their child's behalf when signing off on things like letting them use a trampoline park, the state Supreme Court suggested during arguments Wednesday.

  • March 05, 2025

    Karen Read Jury Poll Proposal Faces Skeptical Federal Judge

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday appeared hesitant to interview jurors from Karen Read's first murder trial in her bid to avoid a retrial, saying during a hearing it's not clear he has the ability to intervene in the state-court proceeding.

  • March 05, 2025

    Pot Co. Hit With Class Action Over Unwanted Mass Texts

    A California man is suing a dispensary and cannabis delivery service in federal court, alleging that it has violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by repeatedly sending unsolicited marketing text messages.

  • March 04, 2025

    Vail To Blame For Woman's Ski Resort Fall, Seattle Jury Told

    A mother who fell 20 feet at a Washington ski resort told a Seattle federal jury Tuesday that the Vail Corp. caused her injuries by failing to address a clear hazard on the mountain and relying on untrained alpine club parents to run chairlifts amid a 2022 staffing shortage.

  • March 04, 2025

    Justices Asked To Uphold Ruling Against Anti-Terror Law

    The Palestine Liberation Organization is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a ruling striking down a 2019 law nixing a jurisdictional hurdle for lawsuits stemming from terrorist attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories, arguing that the law "attempts an end-run around settled constitutional analysis."

  • March 04, 2025

    House Aviation Panel Weighs Air Traffic Control Fixes

    Aviation workers' unions and industry stakeholders told lawmakers on Tuesday that years of political inertia and more recent tumult related to the federal workforce firings are impacting efforts to hire more air traffic controllers and overhaul the nation's outdated and overburdened ATC system.

  • March 04, 2025

    Fla. Med Mal Damages Loophole Facing Lawmaker Scrutiny

    With the new legislative session now underway in the Florida Legislature, state lawmakers are once again considering doing away with a statute that plaintiffs attorneys say unfairly and arbitrarily limits pain-and-suffering damages in fatal medical malpractice cases, but healthcare providers are saying not so fast.

  • March 04, 2025

    US Air Force Base's Faulty Wall Crushed Ga. Teen, Suit Says

    The parents of a Georgia teen who was killed in a wall collapse at Robins Air Force Base filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that the U.S. Air Force faultily constructed and failed to maintain the concrete structure that toppled over and crushed their child last summer.

  • March 04, 2025

    Pool-Maker Hit With $25M Defect Verdict In Child's Drowning

    A St. Louis federal jury has hit inflatables company Bestway USA Inc. with a $25 million verdict after finding its defectively designed above-ground pool was largely responsible for the drowning of a 2-year-old girl.

  • March 04, 2025

    Ruger Must Face Colorado Shooting Suits In Connecticut

    Connecticut-based gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc. must face two lawsuits in its home state over a 2021 mass shooting in a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket, a Connecticut judge has ruled, citing the state's interest in policing harms its businesses may cause in other jurisdictions.

  • March 04, 2025

    4th Circ. Finds No Harm In Facebook Ads For Young Renters

    The Fourth Circuit affirmed a Maryland federal court's dismissal of a would-be renter's proposed class action alleging age discrimination by the D.C. area's largest real estate firms Tuesday, finding that the plaintiff failed to show that she was harmed by the company's targeting of younger renters in Facebook ads.

  • March 04, 2025

    Pa. Justices Question 'Key' Witness Test For Forum Change

    Members of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court wondered Tuesday if a state appeals panel established an unfair test by requiring parties seeking a new forum to shoulder the difficult burden of proving, very early in litigation, that faraway witnesses would be "key" to their case.

  • March 04, 2025

    Rochester Diocese Ch. 11 Plan Heading For Creditor Vote

    A New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved a second vote on a Chapter 11 plan for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, a decision that could see a resolution of the more than 5-year-old case by the end of July.

  • March 04, 2025

    Insurer, Reinsurer Denied Early Wins In Reimbursement Row

    Both sides in an inter-insurer dispute over a reinsurer's share of a coverage settlement for environmental damage claims have adopted reasonable contractual interpretations, a New York federal court ruled, specifically finding ambiguities on whether the reinsurer must reimburse a plaintiff insurer with which it didn't directly do business.

  • March 04, 2025

    American Airlines Seeks Win In Suit Over In-Flight Death

    American Airlines on Monday told a Texas federal judge that a suit brought by a woman over her son's death from a medical emergency on a flight should be denied because the teenager's death was not caused by an accident.

  • March 04, 2025

    Pa. Justices Wary Of 'Limitless Liability' Without Damages Cap

    Pennsylvania's $250,000 damages limit on injury claims involving state entities is too low in cases involving catastrophic injuries, the lawyer for a woman hit by a bus told the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, drawing questions from the justices about the potential for state agencies to be crippled by "limitless liability."

  • March 04, 2025

    Ga. Atty Suspended 6 Months For Sharing Client Information

    A Georgia attorney received a six-month suspension from practicing law Tuesday from the Supreme Court of Georgia for his handling of a federal personal injury case, in which he was found to have disclosed client information and litigation strategy in a deliberate attempt to make defense counsel look disingenuous.

  • March 04, 2025

    Freezer Co. Drops Supplier Suit Over $15M Embryo Loss

    Freezer maker Chart Inc. has dropped its lawsuit alleging one of its suppliers should pay part of a $15 million verdict stemming from an implosion of Chart's cryopreservation tanks in 2018, which destroyed human eggs and embryos, according to an order Monday.

  • March 04, 2025

    Ga. Justices Reject Broadened 'Bad Faith' Claim In Injury Suit

    The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled Tuesday that a driver who rear-ended another could not be found as acting in bad faith — and thereby on the hook for attorney fees — merely because he may have been talking on his cellphone at the time of the crash.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    Section 230 Debates Will Continue, With Or Without TikTok

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    Regardless of whether TikTok is forced to shut down in the U.S. in the coming weeks, legal disputes will continue over social media platforms' responsibility under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for harms allegedly caused by content shared on their apps, says Carla Varriale-Barker at Segal McCambridge.

  • How Trial Attys Can Wield Amended Federal Evidence Rules

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    Trial lawyers should assess recent amendments to four Federal Rules of Evidence and a newly enacted rule on illustrative aids to determine how to best use the rules to enhance pretrial discovery and trial strategy, says Stewart Edelstein, former litigation chair at Cohen & Wolf.

  • Series

    Exercising On My Peloton Bike Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While I originally came to the Peloton bike for exercise, one cycling instructor’s teachings have come to serve as a road map for practicing law thoughtfully and mindfully, which has opened opportunities for growth and change in my career, says Andrea Kirshenbaum at Littler.

  • 5 Drug And Device Developments That Shaped 2024

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    The last year saw significant legal developments affecting drug and device manufacturers, with landmark decisions and regulatory changes that require vigilance and agility from the industry, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

  • Opinion

    Aviation Watch: How Court Nixed Boeing Plea Deal Over DEI

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    A Texas federal court's rejection of the plea agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Boeing over the 737 Max aircraft gratuitously injected the court's views on diversity, equity and inclusion into a case that shouldn't have been a criminal matter in the first place, says Alan Hoffman, a retired attorney and aviation expert.

  • Mich. Ruling Offers View On 'Occurrence' Coverage Definition

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    As demonstrated by a Michigan state court in its recent decision finding per-wound insurance coverage for a school shooting, the amount of coverage available under occurrence-based policies often depends on how courts interpret "occurrence," say attorneys at Hunton.

  • Exploring Venue Strategy For Trump-Era Regulatory Litigation

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    Litigation will likely play a prominent role in shaping policy outcomes during the second Trump administration, and stakeholders have several tools at their disposal to steer regulatory litigation toward more favorable venues, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Consultants Should Be Aware Of DOJ's Potential New Reach

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's recent first-of-its-kind settlement with McKinsey & Co. indicates not only the DOJ's more aggressive stance toward businesses' potential criminal wrongdoings, but also the benefits of self-disclosure and cooperation when wrongdoing becomes apparent, says Dom Caamano at Kibler Fowler.

  • Product Safety Issues In 2024 Highlight Need For Vigilance

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    A look at some of the medications and foods that led to significant class actions last year demonstrates the need for robust regulatory systems and proactive measures to protect consumers from defective and harmful products, says Jennifer Taylor at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin.

  • Series

    Playing Esports Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Competing in a global esports tournament at Wimbledon last year not only fulfilled my childhood dream, but also sharpened skills that are essential to my day job, including strategic thinking, confidence and networking, says AJ Schuyler at Jackson Lewis.

  • Identifying Deepfakes During Evidence Collection, Discovery

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    Attorneys must familiarize themselves with the tools used to create and detect deepfakes — media manipulated by artificial intelligence to convincingly mimic real people and events — as well as best practices for keeping this fabricated evidence out of court, says Bijan Ghom at Saxton & Stump.

  • An Associate's Guide To Career Development In 2025

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    As the new year begins, associates at all levels should consider establishing career metrics, fostering key relationships and employing other specific strategies to help move through the complexities of the legal profession with confidence and emerge as trailblazers, say EJ Stern and Amanda George at Fractional Law Firm.

  • Series

    Fixing Up Cars Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    From problem-solving to patience and adaptability to organization, the skills developed working under the hood of a car directly translate to being a more effective lawyer, says Christopher Mdeway at Kaufman Dolowich.

  • 2024's Most Notable FTC Actions Against Dark Patterns And AI

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    In 2024 the Federal Trade Commission ramped up enforcement actions related to dark patterns, loudly signaling its concern that advertisers will use AI to manipulate consumer habits and its intention to curb businesses' use and marketing of AI to prevent alleged consumer deception, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • Making The Pitch To Grow Your Company's Legal Team

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    In a compressed economy, convincing the C-suite to invest in additional legal talent can be a herculean task, but a convincing pitch — supported by metrics and cost analyses — may help in-house counsel justify the growth of their team, say Elizabeth Smith and Roger Garceau at Major Lindsey.

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