Personal Injury Law

Personal Injury News Roundup

• Eric Turkewitz has a good guest post from a judge with advice for trial lawyers.
• John Bratt writes on the Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog about representing the hearing impaired.
• Brooks Schuelke writes about the law of unintended consequences: how Texas' budget crisis might lead to less car wrecks (Austin Personal Injury Lawyer Blog).
• Texas lawyer Bob Kraft writes about how Wisconsin is heading in the opposite direction of Maryland by decreasing its minimum insurance coverage limits. The plan would be to roll back minimum coverage from $100,000 to $25,000. Maryland just increased its limits for the first time since the Model T came out, going from $20,000 to $30,000. My bet, if you are betting this Vegas: cooler heads prevail and Wisconsin stays at $100,000. Honestly, I'm not even sure how you can argue the minimum coverage in Maryland should not be higher. Why have mandatory insurance at all? We protect everyone with a whiplash injury with minimum coverage but fail to protect those people who are seriously hurt.
• Limit on damages sparks legal filings (JS online.) Let me take back my confidence in the Wisconsin legislature. The bill limits noneconomic damages for medical malpractice in nursing homes to $750,000. Caps have failed to meet constitutional scrutiny in the past in Wisconsin and I doubt this bill will be any different.
• Malpractice leads off rewrite effort (Congress). I wrote about this yesterday.
• Tufts settles suit against doctor in girl?s death for $2.5M (The Boston Globe)

Full post as published by Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on January 25, 2011 (boomark / email).