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Showing posts with label personal injury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal injury. Show all posts
Saturday, February 17, 2024

Foul-ball injuries persist at baseball games

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Pixabay CC0 1.0 via Get Archive The American Museum of Tort Law (AMTL) hosted a Zoom panel Thursday on the problem of foul balls injuring...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Injured contractor finds no award in ruling spanning worker comp, premises liability, conflict of law

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Roof collapsed by snow (illustrative; not this case). Richard Allaway via Flickr CC BY 2.0 A worker hired to remedy a dangerous property co...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

'Marketplace' features book, film, Wisconsin law class on wild risks at shuttered N.J. water park

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Action Park fun in 1994 (Joe Shlabotnik CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) Marketplace today features a torts course about accident risk an...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Chicago Transit Authority seeks to hire tort lawyers

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The Chicago Transit Authority is looking for lawyers specifically to handle tort claims. This job is unusually specific to tort work. Here i...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Court: Even upon liability for mere negligence, insurer may refuse to cover statutory attorney-fee award

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Gerd Altmann licensed by Pixabay An insurer is not obliged to reimburse an insured for attorney fees awarded in a quasi-tort action under ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Police officer delivering lunch was off the job for immunity, injured fellow on the job for worker comp

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Pixabay by Ronald Plett ( license ) A personal injury claim against a police officer's automobile insurer highlights the different sco...
Monday, December 27, 2021

After dog bites postman, $375k jury award fits between floor and ceiling of high-low settlement agreement

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Pxhere CC0 In a dog-bites-postman case in Massachusetts, the Appeals Court in late October held that the parties' "high-low"...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Automatic-door failures fuel injuries, tort claims, but road to recovery in litigation can be bumpy

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Pixabay by djedj An Australian woman struck by a malfunctioning airport security door was denied recovery in April after failing to prove t...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

No recklessness, no liability, court affirms in case of head injury during softball batting practice

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mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Applying recklessness doctrine in a non-competitive context, the Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday affirmed...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Commonwealth wins two in tort: one, bad presentment; two, no duty to juvenile assaulted in contractor custody

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The Commonwealth prevailed in two tort suits under the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act at the end of February.  One case, a slip-and-fall, was...
Monday, November 11, 2019

For Veterans Day, let's push through Congress bipartisan Feres doctrine waiver for medmal claims

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Veterans Day Painting.   (Details at end of story.) The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) authorizes tort actions against the U.S. federal ...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

Gruesome bone-in-burger case: verdict remanded for reconsideration of 'reptile,' 'golden rule' arguments

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Willis Lam CC BY-SA 2.0 Reversing and remanding an order for new trial in a personal injury-product liability case over a $5 Wendy'...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Best friend of teen struck, killed by train may claim negligence without physical injury, appeals court rules

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On a "zone of danger" theory, the Massachusetts Appeals Court last week reinstated the claim of negligent infliction of emotional...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Appeals court rejects landowner liability for 'open and obvious' danger of backyard zipline

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The same day the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided the Boston Globe case this week, the Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgme...