Personal Injury Links
Posted On: August 24, 2011
- Eric Turkewitz talks about sanctions for frivolous suits.
- Is Johnson & Johnson trying to get hip-implant patients to sign away their legal rights before they fully understand them?
- Match.com will now screen for sex offenders, after a lawsuit by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by a convicted repeat sex offender. This is a sad case. Should Match.com have this obligation? I really don't know.
- This isn't a large verdict, but it sure is interesting: a Tennessee woman was awarded $200,000 last week in compensation for being shackled while she was in labor.
- A New York appellate court has upheld a $24 million medical malpractice verdict.
- Ditto, except this one's a Pennsylvania court upholding a $5.2 million verdict.
- The weirdness of keeping information about insurance from a jury.
- Bad faith claim against Nationwide for not providing coverage goes nowhere in West Virginia.
