Personal Injury Law

Personal Links: July 4th Weekend Edition

If you have any suggestions for links, send me an email, I'm all ears. Maryland specific links are at the bottom:

• The New York Times reports that General Motors will continue to have responsibility for products liability lawsuits filed against it after bankruptcy. Lawsuits filed against General Motors before the bankruptcy will be dealt with in bankruptcy court. In other words, clients whose product liability lawyers that had their act together and filed suit are going to have a slim chance of being paid. Slackers (or products? liability lawyers who saw this coming) who delayed moving forward in filing their lawsuits will be rewarded. It is what it is and product liability lawyers with lawsuits to be filed have to be pleased that their claims will not be terminated by the bankruptcy proceedings. But still.
• The Washington City Paper (via Overlawyered) has this great quote for a guy starting a website for lawyers seeking clients for the D.C. metro train crash: "What else can you do, a young guy like me? I don't want to do porn [websites]." Dare I suggest this is a false choice? There has to be a third option after porn and train wreck chasing, right?
• This gets a nod just for the title: ?Michael Jackson: The Mother of All Malpractice Suits.? I always thought that had Tiger Woods? surgeon committed malpractice on Tiger Woods during his Lasix surgery, that would have been the mother of all malpractice suits. It would have been a billion dollar medical malpractice claim. Speaking of Michael Jackson, the National Law Journal says that Jackson?s history of lawsuits will not end after his death. Which is pretty much exactly what you would expect.
• Lawyer?s PowerPoint presentation that his speeding ticket should be excused because he could not feel the speed in his BMW fails, defying the Vegas odds.
• Joe Jureviciusiles files a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Cleveland Browns team doctors (and the team). Given the number of infections the Cleveland Browns have had, it is hard to be surprised that someone would bring a lawsuit, particularly a recently cut player.
• Military medical malpractice lawsuits could be on the horizon. Why shouldn't the military compensate soldier victims?
• Roche withdraws Accutane. The Drug and Medical Device Blog says that there is no ?scientific evidence? that Accutane causes IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) yet juries keep awarding millions of dollars. How does one logically explain this theory? American juries just keep getting fooled over and over again? Is this just a crazy mathematical fluke or are people just pretty stupid? Do we need smart people to decide complex cases? How about voting for president? That seems like a complex issue too, right? If Sarah Palin wasn?t so reflexively choosing business interests at every turn, I know she would have my back on this one.
• Is being the first to file a lawsuit the smartest approach? John Bratt offers his thoughts.
• The Maryland Court of Special Appeals rules in an uninsured motorist pedestrian accident case.
• Lord & Whip lawsuit to proceed. What a messy breakup.

Full post as published by Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on June 30, 2009 (boomark / email).