Personal Injury Law

Personal Injury Roundup of Links

• Wisconsin Supreme Court begins to lean to the right, notwithstanding last week?s informed consent holding.
• $11 million malpractice settlement in Chicago (Dallas Fort Worth Injury Lawyer)
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• Advice on coordinating PIP and workers? compensation in third party car accident cases
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• The argument that early settlements in medical malpractice cases ? even before a lawsuit is filed ? would make more economic sense for malpractice insurance companies. Obviously, I like the idea but I wonder whether this study factored in the ?deterrent effect.? One reason why every medical malpractice case is a war is to send a clear message to medical malpractice lawyers: every malpractice case you file is going to be a war that is going to cost you money. An annoying practice to be sure but is it a good business model? I have no idea.
• Eric Turkewitz on trying to solve the ambulance chaser problem in New York. I don?t think we have a lot of this in Maryland but we certainly do in the District of Columbia.
• Neurontin lawsuit ends bizarrely
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• Thoughts on handling personal injury claims against State Farm
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• Yaz/Yasmin Lawsuits are consolidated in an MDL.
• TortsProf (roundup of personal injury links)
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• Risk of texting while driving from the Maryland Accident Lawyer Blog and the Reeves Law Group Blog. I really don?t think the risk is 23 times greater. That is an insane number. But the larger point should not be obscured: Crowley and Gates go much better together than texting and driving.
• Robert Kreisman writes in his Chicago Personal Injury Lawyer Blog advice for all of us on another means to decrease medical malpractice lawsuits: the insistence on clear communication with your doctor. I think bad automobile drivers get in more accidents that are not their fault than good drivers; good drivers see other drivers' negligence but are paying careful enough attention to avoid the accident. The same is true for medical malpractice: bad patients are more at risk for malpractice than good patients.
• Palm Beach focuses on the problem of teen driving. The LaBovick Injury Law Blog underscores the tragic facts: there is a 40% higher risk of fatalities for drivers age 16-19. What exactly do we do about this? Set the driving age at 20? This seems impractical, to be sure. But so is losing 5,000 teenagers a year to fatal car accidents. I wish I had the answer.
• O.J. Simpson wants to be released pending his appeal because he poses no flight risk. The problem is that it is safe to assume that every justice on the Nevada Supreme Court watched the Bronco chase live, even with a riveting Knicks-Pacers game on as competition. So I suggest betting against a release in your office pool.
• Overlawyered (August 3rd roundup)
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• New York Personal Injury Law Blog (roundup of personal injury links)
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• Scott Greenfield?s Blawg Review
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Full post as published by Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).