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Decedent’s personal injury settlement did not become wrongful death proceeds after his death.

Day on Torts

Before his death, decedent filed suit for personal injury and loss of consortium in West Virginia. The Court explained: Here, Decedent brought suit in West Virginia for personal injury and loss of consortium. M2021-00081-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. internal citation omitted).

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“Corners Were Being Cut”: Baldwin Shooting Already Has The Makings of a Blockbuster Tort Action

JonathanTurley

The fatal shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch already has the makings of a blockbuster tort action. ” The question is not whether but when the first torts lawsuit will be filed. (b) What is clear is that there is an abundance of evidence to support a tort action even at this early stage.

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That's gonna hurt

Legal Research is Easy

Good thing that there was a law librarian nearby who could witness her acrobatics and then blog at out it to the world. As it turns out, South Carolina, where Young Lady happened to trip and tear up her knees, has it's own Torts Claim Act called, not surprisingly, the South Carolina Tort Claims Act under § 15-78-10.

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The New Zealand Court of Appeal on the cross-border application of New Zealand consumer and fair trading legislation

Conflict of Laws

More generally, the judgment provides a useful analysis of the interrelationship between statutory interpretation and choice of law, and lends weight to the proposition that product liability is properly governed by the law of the place of supply (or injury).

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Starting a Paralegal Career Without a Paralegal Certificate

Paralegal Bootcamp

She was a personal injury attorney and they were looking for a receptionist for their small law firm. What I did learn was how to look up statutes and cases. So we did get kind of a field trip and we got to go to the law library and look up statutes and codes and case law. And I handled the phones.

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$1.5M Verdict Affirmed in Tennessee Car Wreck Case.

Day on Torts

The only issue in this personal injury case was damages. Plaintiff and his experts also testified that plaintiff suffered a traumatic brain injury in the accident. The sole issue on appeal was “whether the jury’s verdict [was] contrary to the law or evidence.” W2020-00430-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 353697 (Tenn.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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