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Connecticut Law Tribune

Rising Star Attorney Secures Major Settlements in 2 Months

"Slip-and-fall cases are difficult to try on both ends," Megan Boorsma said. "A case like this with a fracture is high risk. There's a big risk of us getting a defense verdict in a slip-and-fall case, but with an injury like this, there's definitely a risk that they would get a verdict. People always say like you never leave a mediation happy, neither side."
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The Legal Intelligencer

Landlord Agrees to $6M Settlement With Woman Assaulted in Phila. Office Building

"The reality is, but for the negligent security, the attacker couldn't have done what he did. Had proper security been in place, he wouldn't have gotten that far," Kline & Specter partner Lorraine Donnelly said.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

More Than $2M Settlement Resolves Suit Over Injuries Linked to Broken Streetlights

It's unclear why all the lights in the area were out, but it's possible that a prior accident caused a short circuit, said plaintiffs lawyer Guillermo Gonzalez.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Man, 88, on the Hook for $7.5M Over Allegations That He Molested His Grandchild

"The long and short of it is we're going to be looking into any sources of funding, including for fraudulent conveyances to intentionally make himself destitute," said the attorney who represented the plaintiff.
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New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey Supreme Court Finds E-Scooter Riders Are Not 'Pedestrians,' Not Entitled to PIP Benefits

"Expanding the definition of 'pedestrian' to include LSES operators would advance the medical coverage goal but undermine the goal of curbing the rise of insurance costs," Justice Lee A. Solomon said. "The legislature may certainly choose to expand the availability of PIP coverage to LSES operators, as they did with motorcycles, but that policy decision and its insurance cost implications, if any, is properly for the legislature, not the court."
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Daily Report Online

Not Too Much: Court of Appeals Upholds $1M Nominal Damages Award in Walmart Slip-and-Fall

"Even if the evidence presented at trial would authorize a greater or lesser award than that actually made, we will not disturb the award 'unless it is so flagrant as to shock the conscience,'" the court opined.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

'It Is Not Zealous Advocacy. It Is Fraud': PI Firm Sued for Racketeering in Asbestos Cases

Simmons Hanly Conroy, based in the St. Louis metropolitan area, allegedly filed sham lawsuits and scripted witness testimony, according to plastic pipe manufacturer J-M Manufacturing.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Kristen Gibbons Feden: Former Prosecutor Turned Civil Litigator, Verdict Generator

"I get a lot of happiness in this job by getting to call my clients and say, 'Hey, this is what you got,'" Feden said in an interview. "I got to call seven different people to let them know about the awards. It's satisfying from a career perspective and emotional perspective as well."
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Thomas Kline: Re-Energizing the Roundup Litigation

"Lawyering in cases like this is a team sport, and you have to have more than one person who can score and defend," Kline, a basketball fan, said.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Decision of the Day: Court Awards $3M to Plaintiff in Revenge Porn Suit

This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors. 
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