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National Staffing Organization Opens MediSums, Medical Records Summarizing

The Estrin Report

The launch comes at a critical time as the COVID-19 global pandemic adds pressure with personal injury, med/mal, products liability, mass tort, healthcare, workers comp cases and insurance claims on the rise. The best Plan B's are different, but.

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Can Tech Advances Fuel a Medical Malpractice Crisis?

LawTechnologyToday

Over the last five decades, we have witnessed three medical malpractice crises which have each led to soaring insurance premiums, an avalanche of new legal claims, and insurers calling it quits in many of the affected states. Before the change, juries had granted six- and seven-digit personal injury awards in some medical malpractice cases.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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Australian Federal Court dismisses the novel duty of care previously found in Sharma: what does it mean for future climate litigation in Australia?

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The Court found that the relationship relied on between the youth plaintiffs and the Minister lacked the closeness and directness that the common law demands before finding an applicant is entitled to a legal remedy against a party whose conduct has caused or may cause them harm. Background on the claim.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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Managing Risk of Liability Stemming from Biometric Tech and Privacy Laws

InHouseOps

This insurance applies to “personal injury,” which typically is defined as “injury, other than ‘bodily injury,’ arising out of … [o]ral or written publication of material that violates a person’s right of privacy.”. Krishna Schaumburg Tan , 2020 IL App (1st) 191834, appeal allowed, 154 N.E.3d 3d 804 (Ill.

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Justices put Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan on hold

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday put a bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the highly addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin, on hold while it reviews a challenge to the legality of the plan, which would shield the Sackler family, the owners of the drug company, from lawsuits.