Personal Injury Law

Personal Injury Links for the Week

These are some personal injury related links from around the country this week:

The Burlington Times News has an article about North Carolina?s decision to require North Carolina doctors to report all medical malpractice payments greater than $25,000.00. These results will be released to the public. The article notes that only 4% of the doctors in North Carolina in the last seven years have made malpractice payments.

Legal Newsline.com has an article on how medical malpractice damage caps in Texas have decreased malpractice premiums. As I have written before, in spite of what a lot of medical malpractice lawyers have argued, this cause-and-effect relationship is textbook economics. I think it is also true that the quality of patient care in Texas is falling dramatically because there are no repercussions when a doctor seriously harms a patient.

The Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog has a post on John Bratt?s recent auto accident trial in Montgomery County.

Pharalot reports that the FDA will now be compile quarterly a list of drugs that have been identified as having potential safety concerns. Can anyone argue this is a bad idea?

The new Maryland Accident Lawyer Blog has a post on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals? recent ruling in a wrongful death car accident case that took the lives of a man and his three children.

The Illinois Trial Practice Weblog has a post about the top 10 rules of evidence every lawyer must know. (Top 10 lists are irresistible.) The same blog also has a good post on videotaping your opponent?s deposition.

Does Sarah Palin support the idea of jury nullification?

The Baltimore Sun reports that the FDA may not be properly screening drugs for the potentiality of the medications inducing suicide. Plaintiffs? product liability lawyers who have been looking at these issues for the last 20 years are Captain Renault-like stunned to learn that the FDA (and the drug companies) has not properly focused on the risk of drugs ? particularly antidepressants ? and suicidal thoughts and ideations.

Finally, the Torts Prof Blog continues to put together a comprehensive list of personal injury links from around the country.

Full post as published by Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).