Sunday, January 26, 2020

Alabama Supreme Court to decide whether suicide is a superseding cause

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Long time readers of this blog know that I have posted many stories on issues related to claims of injuries related to suicide; and one of t...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Judge Determines Johnson & Johnson Should Be Required to Pay $6.8M in Punitive Damage For Failing to Warn About Risperdal Risks

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In a ruling issued last week, the judge presiding over a product liability action against Johnson & Johnson, reduced the award of puniti...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Should a public defender be protected by a state torts immunity act?

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Just a few days ago, the New Jersey Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that should be called Chaparro Nieves v. Office of the Publ...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

More than 100 families of fallen members of the military sue defense contractors alleging they funded the Taliban, which resulted in the deaths of their relatives

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In a very interesting development, NPR is reporting that more than 100 families are suing several major defense contractors alleging they m...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Senate approves Defense Authorization Bill which includes provision to provide compensation to military personnel injured by negligence of military doctors

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In Feres v US , the US Supreme Court expanded the interpretation of one of the exception to the Federal Torts Claims Act resulting in a ban ...

Arizona Appeals Court suggests it is time to starting thinking of suicide as any other intervening cause

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As in many other jurisdictions, a decedent's conduct in committing suicide is considered a superseding cause, presumably based on the no...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Auto accidents no longer the leading cause of traumatic brain injury deaths in the US

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This is a truly sad and alarming bit of news: According to researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suici...
Friday, November 22, 2019

News about vaping products keep piling up

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Here are a few bits of news related to vaping: The American Medical Association has called for an immediate ban on all electronic cigarett...

Another sports story: Mary Cain's claims against Alberto Salazar and Nike

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Yesterday I wrote about the possibility of supporting a claim related to a fight on the football field.  Today I want to point out another s...

Can Mason Rudolph (Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback) support a claim for battery against Myles Garrett?

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If you are a football fan, and maybe even if you are not, you probably heard about or saw the video of a fight at the end of the game betwe...