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Personal Injury and Article 4(3) of Rome II Regulation

Conflict of Laws

Cross border relations is bound to generate non-contractual disputes such as personal injury cases. Article 4 of Rome II applies to general torts/delicts such as personal injury cases. 2] the English High Court was faced with the issue of applying Article 4 of Rome II to a personal injury case. Introduction.

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National Staffing Organization Opens MediSums, Medical Records Summarizing

The Estrin Report

The launch comes at a critical time as the COVID-19 global pandemic adds pressure with personal injury, med/mal, products liability, mass tort, healthcare, workers comp cases and insurance claims on the rise.

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Number of Tort Trials in Tennessee for the Year Ending June 30, 2020, Including Data By County

Day on Torts

Today we follow up on our previous post about the number of civil trials in Tennessee and we concentrate on the number of trials in Tennessee personal injury, wrongful death and other tort cases. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, there were 108 jury trials and 121 non-jury trials in Tennessee tort cases.

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Missouri Governor Mike Parson pardons gun-wielding lawyer couple

JURIST

Videos and photographs from June 2020 showed Mark McCloskey holding an AR-15-style rifle and Patricia McCloskey holding a semiautomatic pistol. The McCloskeys, both personal injury attorneys, originally faced felony firearm charges before pleading guilty. Louis last year.

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First plaintiff in Zantac litigation drops suit against drug manufacturers

JURIST

Bayer was one of approximately 3,000 plaintiffs who filed personal injury cases against Zantac drug manufacturers, including GSK. Bayer’s attorney Alexandra Walsh told Reuters her client was unable to proceed for “personal health reasons,” but retained the right to refile his case within a year.

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Dealing with Emotional Clients: 9 Strategies for Paralegals

Paralegal Bootcamp

Despite these issues, many paralegal training programs seem to overlook important paralegal soft skills , like navigating the emotions of clients from personal injury to family law and everything in between. Personal Injury Paralegal. Often, they will become hostile toward the process and turn everything into an argument.

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Case Management Company Filevine Raises $108M Series D to Fuel Expansion

LawSites

Filevine , a Utah-based case management company founded in 2014 with an initial focus on litigation and personal injury law, has raised $108 million in a Series D funding round that it says will help fuel its expansion more deeply into big law, insurance defense, corporate, governmental, and nonprofit legal counsel teams.