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Connecticut Law Tribune

Supreme Court Overturns Appellate Court On Rear-End Collision Issue

Practically every personal injury attorney, or general practice lawyer for that matter, has had a client injured in a rear-end car accident. After a while, handling those kinds of cases becomes second nature.
6 minute read

The Recorder

F.P. v. Monier

By | January 10, 2014
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Divided Panel Dismisses Claim Over Chair Mishap

The case turned on whether the owner of Dan's Restaurant in Erie County, where the plaintiff had been injured when a chair collapsed under him, had either constructive or actual knowledge that the chair was defective.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Awards Family Of Decedent in Fatal Car Crash

By | December 31, 2013
A trial over a fatal accident on I-83 near York, Pa. - in which a car was thrust by a tractor-trailer over a Jersey barrier to be struck head-on by another speeding truck - has ended with a $3.8 million verdict in federal court for the family of the woman who died in the crash.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. Couple Sues Minn. Plant Over Hot Manhole Cover

By | December 27, 2013
A Georgia couple is suing Duluth, Minn.'s steam plant after they say their 2-year-old son received second-degree burns from a hot manhole cover.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Force Used to Move Woman From Court, Judge Finds

Excessive force was used to arrest a spectator in Bronx Supreme Court in 2010 after she did not comply with a court officer's order to stay seated, a Court of Claims judge determined.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

A Look Inside the $100 Million Tainted-Drug Settlement

A year into its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, New England Compounding Center agreed to a $100 million settlement for victims of its tainted steroids. Brown Rudnick's David Molton, who represents the creditors committee, discusses the deal and what's next.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

VerdictSearch: Teen Ejected in High-Speed Rollover Awarded $300,000

By | December 23, 2013
A teenage passenger who lacerated her spleen and liver in a 100-mph rollover was awarded $300,000 on Sept. 25. In 2011, Madeline Holland was in a car driven by Gary Eastep when he was speeding, lost control, went off the road and flipped over.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Settlement Reached Following Worker's Degloving Injury

By | December 17, 2013
An aluminum production factory worker who suffered a degloving and partial amputation of several fingers after his hand was sucked into a paint applicator machine has agreed to settle his claim with the machine's alleged manufacturer and installer for $800,000.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Discovery Opening in Coordinated Asiana Crash Litigation

Discovery is set to begin in nearly 50 lawsuits over last summer's Asiana Airlines Inc. crash after a judicial panel coordinated them for pretrial purposes before a federal judge in San Francisco.
3 minute read

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