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The Legal Intelligencer

Changing Liability Issues in the Age of Autonomous Vehicles

We have entered an era where the roads will be shared by pedestrians, fully driver-operated vehicles, semi-autonomous vehicles and fully autonomous vehicles. As a result there will be a multitude of new issues regarding liability facing our legal system.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Court: Church Owed Duty to Patrons Crossing Street From Overflow Lot

A church owed a duty to protect its visitors crossing a busy street from a designated overflow parking lot, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled, clarifying the boundaries of a ruling from last year in which it held that a nightclub owed no such duty under similar circumstances.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Court Affirms Dismissal of Skiing Accident Lawsuit in First-Impression Case

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has rejected an appeal by a man injured at a ski resort in the Allegheny Mountains, ruling in a case of first impression that wheel ruts on a ski slope are an inherent risk associated with the activity of downhill skiing.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Children in Car When Father Killed Settle With Apartments for $6M

The policy-limit settlement came after the lawyer for the slain man's children filed a motion seeking sanctions against the property owner and management companies for destroying police reports and other evidence.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Domino's Deliveryman Who Had 400 Pounds of Cheese Fall on Him Gets $180,000

Mohammed Hassan injured his left ankle, left knee and back after a hand truck with about 400 pounds of cheese fell on him. He settled his workers' compensation claim for $180,000.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Bystander Partly to Blame for Bar Fight Injury

A jury decides a bystander was liable when his arm was cut by a broken champagne glass.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Worker's Fall Case Settles for $1 Million During Jury Deliberations in Hudson

Following an in-trial settlement in Lopez v. Dinallo, a Brooklyn man is to receive $1 million as compensation for injuries he sustained in a workplace accident.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Federal Judge Upholds $2.9 Million Verdict Against General Motors

A judge has ruled that GM's owner's manual about the possible dangers of letting children play in vehicles with keys was not sufficient. A $2.9 million jury verdict for a family that lost a child in a GM car stands.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Circuit Court Rejects Attempts to Overturn PetSmart Defense Win

A federal appeals court has rejected a New Jersey woman's attempts to reverse a defense verdict PetSmart won last year, finding that the woman's proposed retail expert had been correctly disqualified from testifying in the case.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Delivery Man Settles Fall on Ice Claim for $890,000

German Perez sustained neck injuries from a fall on a sheet of ice at a strip mall. This month he settled the case for $890,000.
3 minute read

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