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Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice

  • April 17, 2025

    NC Justice Unsure Contractor Can Avoid Workers' Comp Payout

    A North Carolina Supreme Court justice seemed skeptical of a construction company's argument that a sheriff's department should cover the entire cost of a workers' compensation payout to a deputy injured while directing traffic on a bridge repair job, citing the court's precedent on the topic during an oral argument Thursday.

  • April 17, 2025

    Argentine Gunmaker Seeks Exit From Pistol Defect Suit

    An Argentine gun manufacturer asked a federal judge Wednesday to toss a Georgia man's lawsuit alleging a dangerous defect in the design of a 9mm pistol caused him to be shot when the gun accidentally discharged, arguing the court lacks jurisdiction over the case.

  • April 17, 2025

    Patient Drops Suit Over Scalpel Blade Left In Him For 5 Years

    A New York man who accused his surgeon of leaving a scalpel blade in his shoulder after a 2018 operation and then covering up the mistake for years has come to an agreement with that doctor and the surgery center he worked in to dismiss their dispute from Connecticut federal court.

  • April 17, 2025

    Frontier Slapped With Suit Over Cycling Accident

    Frontier Communications is liable for the serious injuries of a man who was thrown from his bicycle after he became caught in a loose cable that was hanging in the road, a lawsuit filed recently in Connecticut state court says.

  • April 17, 2025

    9th Circ. Revives Defect Suit Against CR Bard Over Clot Filter

    The Ninth Circuit on Thursday revived a patient's allegations that C.R. Bard's blood clot-preventing IVC filter was defective, ruling that a lower court was wrong to throw out the suit as untimely since there are factual disputes as to when the patient noticed the filter had malfunctioned.

  • April 17, 2025

    Co. Seeks 2nd Shot At Asbestos RICO Suit, Citing New Info

    New information supplied by confidential whistleblowers is cause for an Illinois federal court to allow a Los Angeles pipe manufacturer a second chance at pursuing a racketeering case against a Chicago area law firm, the company has argued in a motion to alter or amend the judgment.

  • April 17, 2025

    Yale Health System Faces Class Claims Over Data Breach

    Connecticut's largest healthcare system failed to properly secure patients' personal information ahead of a data breach in March that may have affected millions of people, according to three proposed class actions.

  • April 17, 2025

    Insurer Owes No Coverage For Fatal Facade Collapse

    An insurer has no duty to defend a roofing contractor in a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that two individuals died from the collapse of a building facade, an Illinois federal court ruled, finding a prior works exclusion applicable.

  • April 17, 2025

    NJ Says Discord Misled Public About Messaging App's Safety

    New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin alleged in a complaint Thursday that popular messaging app Discord has misled kids and parents for years about the app's safety, leaving children vulnerable to harassment, abuse and sexual exploitation.

  • April 16, 2025

    Bard Sickened Ga. Man With Medical Gas Pollution, Jury Told

    A C.R. Bard medical equipment sterilization plant secretly "poisoned" a resident of a Georgia town by emitting ethylene oxide for 50 years, a jury heard in opening statements Tuesday, while Bard told the jury it "overwhelmingly" demonstrated reasonable care with the powerful gas.

  • April 16, 2025

    Philly Housing Agency Seeks Out Of Suit Over Fatal Fire

    The Philadelphia Housing Authority on Wednesday urged a Pennsylvania federal court to free it from a lawsuit accusing it of responsibility for a fatal 2022 public housing fire that killed 12 residents, saying administrators of the decedents' estates failed to show that the agency directly caused the fire.

  • April 16, 2025

    Judge Pauses Md. Depositions In Bridge Collapse Suit

    A federal judge has paused an order forcing witnesses associated with Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine, which owned the cargo ship that struck Francis Scott Key Bridge, to be deposed in Maryland, finding it unclear whether they're employees who can't be forced to come to the United States and must be subpoenaed.

  • April 16, 2025

    Ex-Ga. Sheriff Sued Over 'Deplorable' Jail Conditions

    Former Clayton County, Georgia, Sheriff Victor Hill, who was convicted in 2022 of violating his detainees' civil rights by leaving them strapped to a chair for hours at a time, was sued by a detainee who says she faced "deplorable" conditions in the Clayton County Jail.

  • April 16, 2025

    Limits On Conn. Biz Law Stay In Effect In Sandy Hook Case

    A Connecticut appeals court's $150 million paring of a $1.44 billion judgment against Infowars host Alex Jones for defaming the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims' families was a shift away from a broader view of the state's most popular business litigation statute, several experts told Law360.

  • April 16, 2025

    Imerys Says Italian Unit In Danger From Talc Lawsuits

    Bankrupt talc producer Imerys Talc America on Wednesday defended its recent move to file a Chapter 11 case for its Italian subsidiary, saying the foreign unit is facing imminent financial danger should it be targeted in talc injury suits.

  • April 16, 2025

    Conn. Town Wants Murder Exoneree's $5.7M Jury Win Tossed

    A Connecticut town has asked a federal judge to either toss or zero out an exonerated murder defendant's $5.7 million jury trial win, saying one of its police officers did not, as a matter of law, assist a state police officer in fabricating a jailhouse informant's testimony.

  • April 16, 2025

    Orlando Health Hit With $45M Verdict Over Heart Attack Death

    Orlando Health Inc. was hit with a $45 million verdict after a Florida jury found the healthcare company acted with reckless disregard when treating a heart attack patient who died while waiting for a transfer to another Orlando Health facility by helicopter despite a competing hospital being available a few miles away.

  • April 16, 2025

    Helicopter Co. Can't Block Testimony In Crash Suit, Family Says

    The family of a helicopter pilot who died fighting a wildfire has told a Montana federal judge that the manufacturer shouldn't be allowed to exclude their experts' testimony, since the company already had a chance to ask them about their theories.

  • April 16, 2025

    5th Circ. Says Late Settlement Notice Means No Coverage

    A healthcare company was rightfully denied coverage for a settlement over the erroneous approval of a Florida Medicaid recipient's out-of-state treatment, a Fifth Circuit panel ruled, finding the company breached its policy when it failed to inform its insurer of the agreement in advance.

  • April 16, 2025

    Chiropractor Sues Law Firm For Filing Delay After $3M Verdict

    A Florida chiropractor is suing his former law firm for malpractice after he says it failed to timely file an action against his liability insurer following a $3.7 million judgment against him.

  • April 16, 2025

    Gymnast's Estate Blames Connecticut For Fatal Injury

    The state of Connecticut is responsible for the wrongful death of a 20-year-old Southern Connecticut State University gymnast who was fatally injured during a 2019 training exercise, her estate said in a newly retooled lawsuit over the incident.

  • April 16, 2025

    Sheriff's Office, Town Want Forced Catheter Suit Tossed

    Current and former officials in Hollis and Harmon County, Oklahoma, are urging a federal court to throw out a suit from a man who alleges he was forcibly catheterized without his consent following a traffic incident in violation of his civil rights.

  • April 15, 2025

    Fla. Jury Awards $17M To Mother, Daughter Burned In Fire

    A Florida state court jury awarded a mother and daughter $17 million in damages for injuries they sustained in a 2022 apartment complex fire after a jury found the property manager and owner responsible for failing to locate an aerosol can that was left underneath an oven following renovations.

  • April 15, 2025

    DC Asks Judge To Narrow Nursing Home Ruling

    The District of Columbia urged a D.C. federal judge on Tuesday to narrow an injunction requiring it to do more to help disabled nursing home residents transition into the community, arguing the order reaches beyond the class of plaintiffs and is too vague.

  • April 15, 2025

    Novo Nordisk Seeks Toss Of Hospital's Insulin Pen Suit

    Novo Nordisk has told a Connecticut federal judge that a hospital in the state didn't show that the pharmaceutical company didn't warn nurses that its insulin pens are meant to be used with only one patient in a suit over a $1 million settlement the hospital paid to patients potentially exposed to blood-borne infections.

Expert Analysis

  • Calif. Bill, NTIA Report Illustrate Open-Model AI Safety Debate

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    The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s balanced recommendations for preventing misuse of open artificial intelligence models, contrasted with a more aggressive California bill, demonstrate an evolving regulatory debate about balancing democratic access to this powerful new technology against potential risks to the public, say Stuart Meyer and Fredrick Tsang at Fenwick.

  • Rise Of Transpo Contractors Brings Insurance Disputes

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    As more independent contractors are contracted and subcontracted in the delivery industry, companies must be prepared to defend claims from drivers who are injured on the job as they are often seeking to establish an employment relationship with one of the entities in the chain, says Nathan Milner at Goldberg Segalla.

  • 5 Credibility Lessons Trial Attys Can Learn From Harris' Run

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    In launching a late-stage campaign for president, Vice President Kamala Harris must seize upon fresh attention from voters to establish, or reestablish, credibility — a challenge that parallels and provides takeaways for trial attorneys, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.

  • Mich. Whistleblower Ruling Expands Retaliation Remedies

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    The Michigan Supreme Court's recent Occupational Health and Safety Act decision in Stegall v. Resource Technology is important because it increases the potential exposure for defendants in public policy retaliation cases, providing plaintiffs with additional claims, say Aaron Burrell and Timothy Howlett at Dickinson Wright.

  • Opinion

    3rd. Circ. Got It Right On Cancer Warning Claims Preemption

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    The Third Circuit's recent, eminently sensible ruling in a failure-to-warn case against Roundup manufacturer Monsanto, holding that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act preempts state law claims, provides a road map that other courts should adopt, says Lawrence Ebner at the Atlantic Legal Foundation.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • 5 Ways To Confront Courtroom Technology Challenges

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    Recent cybersecurity incidents highlight the vulnerabilities of our reliance on digital infrastructure, meaning attorneys must be prepared to navigate technological obstacles inside the courtroom, including those related to data security, presentation hardware, video playback and more, says Adam Bloomberg at IMS Legal Strategies.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • Strategies To Defend Against Healthcare Nuclear Verdicts

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    The healthcare industry is increasingly the target of megaclaims, particularly those alleging medical malpractice, but attorneys representing providers can use a few tools to push back on flimsy litigation and reduce the likelihood of a nuclear verdict, says LaMar Jost at Wheeler Trigg.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • When Trauma Colors Testimony: How To Help Witnesses

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    As stress-related mental health issues continue to rise, trial attorneys must become familiar with a few key trauma-informed strategies to help witnesses get back on track — leaning in to the counselor aspect of their vocations, say Ava Hernández and Steve Wood at Courtroom Sciences.

  • Series

    Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.

  • How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

  • When The Supreme Court Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade

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    Instead of grousing about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions overturning long-standing precedents, attorneys should look to history for examples of how enterprising legal minds molded difficult decisions to their advantage, and figure out how to work with the cards they’ve been dealt, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

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