Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice

  • October 21, 2025

    NTSB Member Urges DC Court To Nix Trump's 'Illegal' Firing

    A National Safety Transportation Board member challenging his firing in May by President Donald Trump is urging a D.C. federal court to reinstate him, saying the board's removal protections are constitutional.

  • October 21, 2025

    Purdue Touts Wide Support For Latest Ch. 11 Plan

    Pharmaceutical titan Purdue Pharma heralded Tuesday that its newest Chapter 11 plan has almost total support from voting creditors, saying the proposal could pave the way to creditors receiving more than $7 billion, after its well-publicized role in the opioid epidemic pushed the company into bankruptcy and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected its original plan.

  • October 21, 2025

    J&J Unit Seeks Sanctions Over Doc's Deleted Talc Emails

    A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary is asking a Virginia federal court to sanction a doctor who it alleges wrote a false article linking its talc products to mesothelioma, saying the only explanation for his policy of deleting all emails as soon as he sends or reads them is to destroy evidence.

  • October 21, 2025

    CORRECTED: Widower Wants Restaurant Sanctioned In Disney Allergy Death Suit

    A widower suing Disney over his wife's food allergy death at a Walt Disney World restaurant asked a Florida court on Monday to sanction the restaurant, claiming it ambushed him with brand new evidence in the middle of depositions, after months of discovery had already been conducted.

  • October 21, 2025

    11th Circ. Revives Fla. Slip-And-Fall Case Against Walmart

    The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday revived a Florida man's slip-and-fall lawsuit against Walmart, finding that the lower court wrongly drew inferences in Walmart's favor about whether store employees should have foreseen the puddle in the aisle that caused the man's back injuries.

  • October 21, 2025

    Pa. Justices Will Probe 'Ambiguous' Auto Policy Exclusion

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will consider whether insurance policy language blocking coverage for injuries "arising out of" the ownership or use of "autos" was unclear enough to be interpreted in favor of granting coverage for an accident involving a small terminal tractor truck.

  • October 21, 2025

    Calif. Court Backs Birth Battery Claim, Split On Gender Abuse

    A California appeals court has reinstated a medical battery lawsuit brought by a woman who accused her obstetrician of forcing an unwanted procedure on her during childbirth, but the court rejected her claim that the act constituted gender-based violence, prompting a sharp judicial dissent.

  • October 20, 2025

    Sandy Hook Families Oppose Reverting Equity To Alex Jones

    Families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims have pushed back against a bankruptcy trustee's attempt to relinquish equity interests in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Free Speech Systems LLC, telling a Texas bankruptcy court Friday that doing so would frustrate their collection of more than $1 billion in judgments.

  • October 20, 2025

    LA Angels Staffer Testifies He Didn't Suspect Drug Abuse

    The Los Angeles Angels' traveling secretary testified Monday in a trial over the overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, saying he never suspected that the colleague who provided narcotics to Skaggs was abusing drugs, but instead thought his abnormal workplace behavior was due to mental health issues.

  • October 20, 2025

    Judge Sides With Insurer Over Glass Door Injury Dispute

    A subcontractor's insurer owes no defense to the property management company for a BJ's Restaurant location in an ongoing lawsuit alleging that a glass door collapsed onto a patron, a New York federal court ruled, finding the management company is "at most" an additional insured.

  • October 20, 2025

    Colo. High Court Upholds $40M Award In Med Mal Cap Suit

    The Colorado Supreme Court Monday unanimously ruled that a jury retains its authority to award damages exceeding the state's $1 million cap on medical malpractice damages subject to certain court authority, upholding a nearly $40 million judgment against a state hospital.

  • October 20, 2025

    Zuckerberg Ordered To Testify At 1st Social Media Harm Trial

    A Los Angeles judge on Monday ordered Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify at an upcoming bellwether trial over major social media technology companies allegedly causing harm to young users' mental health, but put off deciding whether he must testify at future bellwether trials.

  • October 20, 2025

    Lack Of Police Funding 'Catastrophic' For SD Tribe, Suit Says

    A South Dakota tribe is asking for an order that would require the federal government to sufficiently fund its public safety resources, arguing that the United States' failure to treat law enforcement as a trust and treaty obligation continues to be catastrophic for it and its members.

  • October 20, 2025

    DOJ Says Shutdown Slowing Flint Water Case Progress

    U.S. Department of Justice attorneys told a Michigan federal judge on Monday that the government shutdown is "straining" resources and restricting their ability to timely produce requested information in litigation over the response to the Flint water crisis.

  • October 20, 2025

    Jack Nicklaus Wins $50M In Fla. Defamation Trial

    A Florida jury on Monday awarded Jack Nicklaus $50 million in his defamation lawsuit against the company named after him, finding it made false statements in a 2022 New York lawsuit over the golf legend's interest in a Saudi Arabian league and disseminated those claims to news organizations.

  • October 20, 2025

    Sterigenics Nears Win In Georgia Ethylene Oxide Litigation

    Sterigenics Inc. notched two significant wins in sprawling litigation over its alleged emissions of carcinogenic ethylene oxide at an Atlanta-area plant, as a Georgia state court judge tossed residents' specific causation claims and allegations that the plant's activities constituted a private nuisance.

  • October 20, 2025

    Funds Rip Boeing's 4th Circ. Bid To Decertify Max Fraud Class

    Institutional investors have told the Fourth Circuit that they've sufficiently laid out their damages theories to advance certified class claims alleging Boeing kept its stock price trading at inflated levels by repeatedly misrepresenting the safety of its 737 Max fleet after two crashes and a door-plug blowout.

  • October 20, 2025

    Tylenol Maker Tells FDA Not To Add Autism Warning

    Tylenol maker Kenvue on Friday told the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reject a call to add warnings about the risk of using acetaminophen during pregnancy, saying that "expansive" scientific evidence shows there is no proven link between the over-the-counter drug and autism.

  • October 20, 2025

    Samsung Must Face Vape Battery Injury Suit, Minn. Court Says

    A Minnesota state appeals court has ruled that a subsidiary of Samsung must face a lawsuit regarding a vape pen battery that exploded in a man's pocket, saying the company was likely aware that some of the nearly 3 million batteries it shipped to the state were being used in e-cigarettes.

  • October 20, 2025

    Conn. Firm, Former Client End Cybersecurity Dispute

    A Connecticut personal injury firm and its former client have reached a joint stipulation of dismissal in a federal court dispute over the firm's hacked email system and a fraudulent email that resulted in the wiring of nearly $730,000 in closing costs on a residential property.

  • October 20, 2025

    Tire-Maker Can't Thwart Asbestos Suits, NC Justices Are Told

    More than a dozen plaintiffs locked in a long-running battle for workers' compensation tied to alleged asbestos exposure at a Continental Tire factory are urging North Carolina's top court to let stand a lower appeals court decision reviving their cases.

  • October 20, 2025

    Law Firm Aims To Escape Pa. Suit Over Massage Envy Action

    South Carolina-based McGowan Hood Felder & Phillips LLC wants a malpractice lawsuit filed against the personal injury firm dismissed, telling a Pennsylvania federal court Monday the suit's underlying actions involving a botched sexual assault case against Massage Envy occurred in North Carolina.

  • October 20, 2025

    LA Reid's Former Attys Face Sanctions Bid In Sex Assault Suit

    Attorneys for a producer accusing music executive Antonio "L.A." Reid of sexual assault asked a New York federal judge to sanction his former lawyers for allegedly causing unreasonable delays to the proceedings, most recently preventing a trial from proceeding as scheduled in September.

  • October 20, 2025

    Conn. Court Won't Disturb Motorcyclist's $45M Crash Verdict

    A Connecticut state judge declined to set aside or reduce a $45 million award to a Marine Corps reservist who was paralyzed in a motorcycle crash, turning away a towing company's argument that the court improperly admitted evidence and the jury was unduly influenced by sympathy for the victim.

  • October 20, 2025

    Mich. Equine Law Shields Ford Museum In Carriage Crash

    A Michigan appellate panel said in a published opinion that the Henry Ford museum is immune from a woman's negligence suit over a horse-drawn carriage accident, determining riding in a horse-drawn carriage falls under a state law shielding sponsors of equine activity from liability.

Expert Analysis

  • What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech

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    Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.

  • How Okla. High Court Ruling Will Alter Workers' Comp. Cases

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    The Oklahoma Supreme Court's recent decision in OBI Holding Company v. Schultz-Butzbach confirms that workers' compensation claims should move through the system without needless delay, which means attorneys on both sides will need to adjust how they handle such claims, says Steven Hanna at Gilson Daub.

  • Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes

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    Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Demystifying Generative AI For The Modern Juror

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    In cases alleging that the training of artificial intelligence tools violated copyright laws, successful outcomes may hinge in part on the litigator's ability to clearly present AI concepts through a persuasive narrative that connects with ordinary jurors, say Liz Babbitt at IMS Legal Strategies and Devon Madon at GlobalLogic.

  • 3rd Circ. Clarifies Ch. 11 3rd-Party Liability Scope Post-Purdue

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    A recent Third Circuit decision that tort claims against the purchaser of a debtor's business belong to the debtor's bankruptcy estate reinvigorates the use of Chapter 11 for the resolution of nondebtor liability in mass tort bankruptcies following last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Purdue Pharma, say attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell.

  • Series

    Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve

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    Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.

  • Series

    Playing Softball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My time on the softball field has taught me lessons that also apply to success in legal work — on effective preparation, flexibility, communication and teamwork, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.

  • How New Rule On Illustrative Aids Is Faring In Federal Courts

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    In the 10 months since new standards were codified for illustrative aids in federal trials, courts have already begun to clarify the rule's application in different contexts and the rule's boundaries, say attorneys at Bernstein Litowitz.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management

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    Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.

  • How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities

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    A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.

  • How Justices' Ruling Upends Personal Jurisdiction Defense

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Fuld v. Palestinian Liberation Organization, holding that the Fifth Amendment's due process clause does not require a defendant to have minimum contacts with a forum, may thwart foreign defendants' reliance on personal jurisdiction to evade federal claims in U.S. courts, say attorneys at Axinn.

  • Strategies To Get The Most Out Of A Mock Jury Exercise

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    A Florida federal jury’s recent $329 million verdict against Tesla over a fatal crash demonstrates how jurors’ perceptions of nuanced facts can make or break a case, and why attorneys must maximize the potential of their mock jury exercises to pinpoint the best trial strategy, says Jennifer Catero at Snell & Wilmer.

  • Series

    Writing Musicals Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My experiences with writing musicals and practicing law have shown that the building blocks for both endeavors are one and the same, because drama is necessary for the law to exist, says Addison O’Donnell at LOIS Law.

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    Adapting To Private Practice: From Va. AUSA To Mid-Law

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    Returning to the firm where I began my career after seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia has been complex, nuanced and rewarding, and I’ve learned that the pursuit of justice remains the constant, even as the mindset and client change, says Kristin Johnson at Woods Rogers.

  • Conn. Ruling May Help Prevent Abuse Of Anti-SLAPP Statute

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    If the decision in Aguilar v. Eick, where the Connecticut Appellate Court held that the state's anti-SLAPP statute does not authorize the court to conduct an evidentiary hearing, is reconsidered by the state Supreme Court, it could provide an important mechanism for defendants to prevent plaintiffs from pleading around the reach of the statute, say attorneys at McCarter & English.

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