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Federal court grants Sackler family immunity from all future opioid lawsuits

JURIST

Judge Drain stated added: “one cannot put a price on a human life or an injury such as opioid addiction. And yet, that’s what courts do with respect to personal injuries. The amount that courts reach is rarely, in terms of dollars, sufficient compensation. That is particularly the case where the wrongdoer is insolvent.”

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Are Red Flag Laws Better Suited To Prevent Suicides?

The Crime Report

Connecticut revamped its own red flag law in June. Connecticut’s new law allows family or household members or medical professionals to apply to courts for a risk protection order investigation if “they have a good faith belief that someone poses a risk of imminent personal injury to himself, herself, or another person.”

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Lawsuit: Connecticut Man Died After Hospital Ignored Him for 7 Hours

LegalReader

The victim's mother claims that Yale-New Haven Hospital staff ignored her 23-year-old-son, who'd been transported to the facility after accidentally ingesting a substance he believed may have been fentanyl.

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THE IMPORANTANCE OF DISCOVERY PART 1

Ramblings of a Connecticut Paralegal

Requesting and obtaining documents and facts is crucial to building any case, from personal injury to family. Personally, even when I "know" the rules, I find it helpful to review periodically. Other practice areas such as personal injury matters rely heavily on form requests in the Connecticut Practice Book.

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Serious Competition: Standing Out In A Crowded Market

LawTechnologyToday

Legal marketing is a field unto itself, but when your practice is focused on one of the more popular sectors—personal injury law, medical malpractice, or bankruptcy, for example—it can be especially hard to distinguish yourself from the competition. So, what can you do to stand out from the crowd? What does this look like in practice?

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New GPT-Based Chat App from LawDroid Is A Lawyer’s ‘Copilot’ for Research, Drafting, Brainstorming and More

LawSites

Connecticut. He thinks it will be particularly useful for lawyers practicing in areas such as personal injury or family law where lawyers need assistants but may not want to spend that extra money on hiring. In the example you see above of using Copilot for legal research, the lawyer asks for the leading U.S. case on privacy.

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In Bid to Disrupt PI, Legal Tech Company Pivots, Launches Legal Service to Compete with the Very Firms It Has Long Served

LawSites

For the last seven years, Mighty has been a legal technology company operating a portal that helps personal injury law firms interface more seamlessly with the lienholders, such as medical providers, who have claims against their clients’ recoveries. Tackling PI Law’s ‘Incentive Problem’.