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Daily Business Review

Fatal Key West Jet Ski Collision Results in $2.88M Settlement

The French tourist who crashed into another Jet Ski renter did not understand the safety instructions because they were given in English, plaintiffs lawyers argued.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Walgreens, CVS on the Hook for $21,000 Discovery Bill, Third DCA Rules

A Miami-Dade judge refused to shift the costs to a man who filed a wrongful-death case claiming the drugstore chains served as his late daughter's narcotics pill mills.
3 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Ex-Governors Aim to Avert Discovery in Lawsuit Over Prison Riot Death

Attorneys for former Govs. Jack Markell and Ruth Ann Minner this week sought to avert discovery in a case brought by the family of a correction officer killed in the Feb. 1 takeover of a Smyrna prison, stressing precedent from a similar case over the rape more than a decade ago of a counselor at the same jail.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Failing to Protect Our Elderly: Blame for All After Hollywood Deaths

Former Florida Bar president Eugene Pettis points the finger of blame for the post-hurricane deaths of Hollywood nursing home patients at Tallahassee.
1 minute read

Daily Report Online

Fulton Jury Awards $7.7M in Motorcyclist's Fatal Wreck

The original verdict was $8.6 million, but was reduced by 10 percent to reflect liability on the part of the motorcyclist.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Matter of 91st St. Crane Collapse Litig.

Jury Awards in 2008 Crane Collapse Case Must Be Reduced; Veil's Pierce Was Proper
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Horst v. Union Carbide Corp., PICS Case No. 17-1384 (C.P. Lackawanna June 30, 2017) Nealon, J. (15 pages).

In this asbestos litigation, plaintiffs' wrongful death claim was time-barred because they failed to amend the complaint to include such a claim within two years of the date on which one of the plaintiffs was diagnosed with mesothelioma.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Widow Can't Sue UPenn Over Scientist's Brain Cancer

The widow of a University of Pennsylvania scientist who studied the effects of radiation and died of brain cancer allegedly derived from exposure to radiation cannot sue the university for his death.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

New Suit Lands Over Fatal Tom Cruise Movie Plane Crash

A 2015 plane crash in Colombia during the filming of the Tom Cruise movie "American Made," already the subject of at least five lawsuits in California and Georgia, has spawned more litigation in federal court in Atlanta.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyers Spar Over Civil Liability in Fatal Apartment Fire

Lawyers squared off before the New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday over whether a Paterson electrical inspector should be afforded absolute immunity against claims that he failed to inform his superiors about a dangerous condition in an apartment house that ultimately burned in a fatal fire.
7 minute read

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