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A Game to 'Get Out of Trial:' Med-Mal Plaintiff Seeks Rule Change After Defendants Wait Out Statute of Limitations Before Pressing Defective Service Arguments

"Why did you extend all this legal work to the financial detriment of your client?" Ohio Justice Melody J. Stewart asked.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Waterbury Jury Returns $10 Million Verdict in Wrongful-Death Case

Based on the number of docket entries and lack of an offer, one of the plaintiff's lawyers claimed the defense "seemed to think very little of the [plaintiff's] case."
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Appeals Court Asked to Decide Jurisdiction in Fatal Shooting at Work

The panel will have to sort out arguments for the matter to go to trial or through the workers' comp process.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Little-Known Law Leads to $3M South Florida Settlement

"That pressure led them to decide that they should resolve the case for their insurance policy limits," said Robert Fiore, an attorney for the estate.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Workers Deserve Reform to 1847 Wrongful-Death Law—History Tells Us Why

New York State legislators have twice passed the Grieving Families Act to reform the state's outdated wrongful death statute-Yet Gov. Kathy Hochul has bowed to the special interest groups who want to keep the status quo, the president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association writes.
3 minute read

Law.com

NASCAR Subject to Wrongful-Death Suit After Engineer's Electrocution

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide. Sign up today and be first to know about new suits in your region, practice area or client sector.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Panel, Affirming $25M Default Judgment, Rules Absent Defendants Must Prove Apportionment

None of the defendants named in either wrongful-death action showed up at trial, but both groups appealed the multimillion-dollar judgments against them.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Good News for Plaintiffs: Open Path for Overcoming Immunity?

"It's a problem that is common and just recently coming to light," plaintiff's counsel Joaquin Madry said.
4 minute read

Law.com

Wrongful Death Suit Accuses NCAA of Failing to Combat Concussion Injury Dangers

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Corporate Structure Is Key to Affirmance of $22M Motocross Wrongful-Death Verdict

"This is a novel issue that doesn't come up a lot in appellate law, so we're really pleased that the Court of Appeals saw it the way we saw it," said plaintiff-appellee counsel Render Freeman of Andersen Tate & Carr.
5 minute read

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