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Showing posts with label wrongful death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wrongful death. Show all posts
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Hospital's radiology contractor must answer negligence claim over patient death, per third-party doctrine

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Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Mass. Terageorge~commonswiki via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 A hospital's radiology contractor ma...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Possibility that 'Titan' victims died instantly works curious disadvantage in tort claims over disaster

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Still image of Titan wreckage from USCG video (below). Hearings over the Titan submersible disaster point to the problem of compensation fo...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Criminal verdict in Mich. school shooting suggests parent vulnerability to civil negligence claims

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2018 National School Walkout Public domain via Rawpixel The criminal conviction of gun-owning parent Jennifer Crumbley yesterday in the 2021...
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Monday, January 22, 2024

Recklessness claim in fatal Ford rollover accident allows plaintiff to push past Ga. statute of repose

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"Crash Overview Diagram" by defense expert Donald F. Tandy, Jr. (no. 103 filed Mar. 15, 2022) in Cosper v. Ford Motor Co. (N.D. Ga...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Lengthier U.S. limitations period allows claim over accidental deaths of medical students in Nevis

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The Massachusetts three-year statute of limitations rather than a foreign one-year statute of limitations permitted wrongful death suits in ...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Judge Jackson Media Law, Torts Tour: From Big Meat 'COOL' to 'A Love of Food' and 'Everlasting Life'

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[A revised version of this post is available to download as a paper on SSRN .] The Hon. KBJ ( Wikicago CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Profiles of U.S. Circ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Court affirms widow's $21m verdict vs. Big Tobacco, upholds punitive damages despite '98 settlement

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Marlboro Red Open Box by Sarah Johnson ( CC BY 2.0 ) The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today affirmed a $21m verdict against Phili...
Monday, June 28, 2021

No duty: Court clears homeowner of liability in fatal shooting that sparked town ban on Airbnb

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Not where the party was: historic Henfield House in Lynnfield, Mass. ( photo by John Phelan CC BY 3.0 ) A homeowner is not liable in the s...