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Year in Review: Health Care Law

The medical malpractice landscape changed for litigants in the wake of tort reform, and again in Texas West Oaks v. Williams, when the Texas Supreme Court allowed claims by certain non-patients as health care liability claims (HCLCs) under Chapter 74, spurring litigation over whether non-patient injuries that occurred at a health care facility are HCLCs.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Insured Gets Four Times Underlying Damages in Bad-Faith Suit

A federal jury in the Middle District of Pennsylvania awarded $100,000 to the victim of a car accident who sued his insurer for bad faith after five years of litigating the underlying suit.
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Corporate Counsel

Judge: GM Outside Counsel Won't Have to Hand Over Internal Notes

By | December 02, 2015
General Motors Co.'s outside counsel will not be forced to hand over internal notes and memos related to the automaker's deadly ignition-switch defect, a judge has ruled.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Verdicts: $12,500 Verdict in Rear-Ender Case

By | December 02, 2015
On Oct. 11, 2011, plaintiff Theresa Cox was driving south on Haddon Avenue in Haddonfield. While stopped in traffic, she was rear-ended. She claimed a permanent neck injury.
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The Recorder

Ramos v. Westlake Services LLC

By | November 25, 2015
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Corporate Counsel

Volkswagen Saga Continues With Whistleblower Immunity

It must be no fun working at the legal and compliance departments at Volkswagen AG right now. The revelation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the automaker cheated on its emissions tests has set off an explosion of lawsuits, investigations, financial losses and a new report of duping regulators on environmental issues.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Verdicts: No-Cause Verdict in Rear-Ender

By | November 13, 2015
On Sept. 1, 2010, plaintiff Marie Miller, 41, an office manager, was traveling south on Route 322 in Monroe Township. After stopping for a traffic light at the intersection with Corkery Lane, Miller was rear-ended. She claimed injuries to her neck and right arm.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Petrosky v. Allstate Fire and Cas. Ins., PICS Case No. 15-1652 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 30, 2015) Davis, J. (27 pages).

By | November 10, 2015
Police officer who was struck by a motorist when he responded to the scene of a motor-vehicle accident was not injured when "in, on, getting into or out of" his patrol car.
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Corporate Counsel

Scandal-Plagued VW, GM and Deutsche Bank Take Big Hits to Bottom Line

Crime doesn't pay, the saying goes, and at least three major companies are seeing some truth in that adage. Deutsche Bank AG, General Motors Co. and Volkswagen Group all saw their bottom lines take a big hit in the third quarter due to their misconduct.
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Corporate Counsel

Never Mind: Ford's Leitch to Serve as Bank of America's GC

It was a short retirement. Ford Motor Co. general counsel David Leitch, who just announced he was retiring on Jan. 1, is expected to be named Bank of America Corp.'s new general counsel.
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