/personal-injury-medical-malpractice?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice Copyright 2025 saąúĽĘ´«Ă˝. en-US Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:23:38 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386526?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386526 A representative of the estate of a passenger who died in a 2024 South Korean plane crash sued The Boeing Co. in Illinois state court Monday, saying the aerospace giant was negligent in selling a "defective and unreasonably dangerous" aircraft. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:56:11 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386580?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386580 The estate of a teenager who was killed by a 35-year-old man she matched with on Grindr LLC's dating platform is urging a Florida federal court not to send the case to arbitration or Los Angeles, saying federal law blocks arbitration, and Florida law require that the suit be heard in the state where she was killed. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:39:41 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386419?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386419 The Eleventh Circuit said Tuesday that it will not revisit a three-judge panel's decision ending a pair of defamation suits filed by golfer Patrick Reed over coverage of his affiliation with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament and allegations that he cheated on the course. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:58:03 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386665?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386665 Medical equipment company Henry Schein Inc. and its related entities have settled claims by Virginia counties brought against it in the sprawling national opioid litigation, according to a notice filed Wednesday. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:48:26 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386251?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386251 A Texas federal judge on Tuesday handed Black & Decker a win in a man's suit alleging that he was hurt by using an angle grinder since he never read the instruction manual that warned of the potential for injuries. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:40:35 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386548?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386548 The North Carolina Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with whether two seconds was enough time for a town utility worker to both register and react to the fact that he was about to hit a pedestrian with his work truck. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:27:05 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2380743?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2380743 Though law school may not have specifically taught us how to use generative artificial intelligence to help with our daily legal tasks, it did provide us the mental building blocks necessary for adapting to this new technology — and the judgment to discern what shouldn’t be automated, says Pamela Dorian at Cozen O'Connor. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:14:21 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2385985?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2385985 The company behind artificial sweetener Splenda is urging a North Carolina federal court to deny a scientist's bid to amend her counterclaims in a suit over whether Splenda contains cancer-causing chemicals, saying her claims are either outside the statute of limitations or retreads of claims she already dropped. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:11:43 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2385647?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2385647 A recent Texas bankruptcy court decision that a postconfirmation litigation trust has no obligations to repay a completely drawn down $2 million litigation funding agreement serves as a warning for estate administrators and funders to properly disclose the intended financing, say attorneys at Kleinberg Kaplan. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:09:05 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386000?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386000 A California judge overseeing a trial in a rape victim's lawsuit against Uber declined Tuesday to allow the woman's lawyer to introduce evidence that an Uber communications executive once joked with a colleague via Slack that he "trashed rape victims" in talks with a reporter. Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:40:24 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386161?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386161 A 72-year-old Minnesota man is accused of once again threatening to kill a federal judge, according to an announcement made Tuesday by prosecutors who said that, this time, he penned a 236-page manifesto titled "How To Kill a Federal Judge" and showed it to staff at a local library. Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:30:20 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386215?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386215 California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department over the "inhumane" and "uninhabitable" conditions at county jails, pointing to an increase in in-custody deaths and facilities that allegedly lack adequate plumbing, sanitation and temperature control. Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:27:18 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386056?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386056 The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday partially revived a civil rights lawsuit brought by an incarcerated person in Michigan, finding that his First Amendment rights were violated and he was retaliated against for complaining about an industrial fan that blew excessively cold air into his cell. Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:22:07 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2385977?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2385977 A Washington state appeals court declined Tuesday to renew two concert attendees' personal injury suit against Phish and Live Nation after they were injured by rocks during a 2018 show, finding they failed to show the band and venue manager could have foreseen the "random attacks." Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:19:35 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386216?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386216 The accuser in New Jersey's first clergy sex abuse trial avoided a mistrial Tuesday after his counsel used "rape" in opening argument, but got a warning to refrain from using the word to describe the oral sex he was allegedly subjected to by a priest at a Catholic prep school in the 1970s. Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:18:57 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386153?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386153 The NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell have urged the Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to keep out of arbitration a lawsuit filed by former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden accusing the league of character assassination, arguing that the current ruling "would have destabilizing consequences" for contract negotiations in a number of industries. Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:53:18 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386241?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386241 The latest wildfire damage trial against PacifiCorp began Tuesday with the stories of 10 Oregon property owners who, a jury was told, didn't "lose" their property but had it "taken" by an irresponsible utility. Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:44:48 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2385574?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2385574 The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that the state's $1 million cap on medical malpractice damages doesn't encompass certain interest awards when the so-called good cause exception applies, in a suit accusing a doctor of causing a baby's severe brain injury. Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:29:44 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386210?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386210 A truck driver whose wife was allegedly injured after her skin was punctured by a mattress in his tractor-trailer's sleeping cabin told an Atlanta jury Tuesday that he believed she never would have been injured if the mattress had coil springs that were not defective. Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:18:17 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386023?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2386023 A Pennsylvania Superior Court on Tuesday refused to throw out a suit by an elderly couple alleging a physical therapist and her employer negligently infected them with COVID-19, finding the claims are not blocked by federal health emergency laws.