Day on Torts

Ken Shigley has an interesting post listing some poll results that have been circulated in AAJ materials in recent days.  

Former Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Penny White, former Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Joe Riley and I are sponsoring our annual "Justice Programs" seminars again this Fall.  Here is the schedule  for this two-day, fifteen-hour program. First Day 8:00 – 8:30 Registration 8:30 – 10:15 Tort Law / Comparative Fault…

I have been in Chicago for the last four days, attending the Board meeting of the National Board of Trial Advocacy and spending time with my son , MIchael.  We saw the Cubs beat the Astros Saturday afternoon and took in a street fair in Chinatown yesterday.  It was a…

The highest court of New York has ruled that a "high-low" agreement must be disclosed to the judge and to non-settling defendants. This is what the Court said: To ensure that all parties to a litigation are treated fairly, we hold that whenever a plaintiff and a defendant enter into…

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has released an en banc  opinion in Murphy v. Internal  Revenue Service,  No. 05-5139 (July 3, 2007). The summary of the opinion as prepared by the Court:  "Marrita Murphy brought this suit to recover income taxes she paid on the compensatory damages for emotional…

Put this is the "You ain’t gonna believe this" department. A New Jersey firm admitted "that an associate — with two partners’ knowledge — asked a bank representative whether a client, Kennedy Funding Inc. of Hackensack, could purchase the personal mortgages of the attorney suing Kennedy Funding in four federal…

i wrote several weeks ago about the lawsuit Robert Bork filed against the Yale Club. I mentioned that the some issues I had with the suit, including the request for punitive damages. Eric Turkewitz wrote a much better post than I.  As a New York personal injury lawyer, he wrote…

You have undoubtedly heard about the lawsuit that was filed that claims that Starbursts are too chewy and caused an injury to a woman’s mouth.  The plaintiff’s lawyer is Brian Muawad from St. Clair Shores, Michigan.  He and his brother hold themselves out as competent in " Personal Injury, Auto…

You know the general rule: absent a special relationship, one person does not have a duty to come to the aid of another.  You can see someone drowning, calling out for help, and simply walk by listening to your Ipod and taking a another lick of your Maggie Moo’s ice cream…

Walk into any courtroom in the state in any given week and there is a one-day trial underway in a soft tissue injury case.  A defense lawyer is standing before the jury, waving a photograph of the plaintiff’s vehicle and saying "How can the plaintiff be hurt?  The rear bumper…