Personal Injury

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News & Analysis as of May 19, 2013

City May Not Use “Anti-SLAPP” Motion to Dismiss Claim That City Employee Falsely Told Potential Tenants That Property Owner Was...

by Jon E. Goetz, Jeffrey L. Massey | Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard on 4/24/2013

Property owners often bristle at statements that local government staff make to prospective tenants or purchasers of their property, concerned that they will be scared away by overly harsh or inaccurate speech. When those...more

Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Update: January 2013 - Plaintiffs Bear the Burden of Establishing Causation by Competent Expert...

by Sean Patterson | Sedgwick LLP on 1/7/2013

Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently ended 16 years of toxic tort litigation relating to fugitive hexavalent chromium (C6) exposure involving the City of Willits and...more

Can The Neighbors Sue the Family Farm Across the Street?

by Sedgwick LLP on 9/12/2012

Our preview of the September term of the Illinois Supreme Court continues with Toftoy v. Rosenwinkel. We all learned about it in law school, and few of us have probably thought of the phrase since: “coming to a...more

Illinois Court Considers Liability in Mall Slip and Fall

by Howard Ankin on 4/3/2012

When someone slips and falls in a public place in Illinois such as a mall, in order to prevail in a personal injury lawsuit, the person who fell must establish that the owner of the property was somehow responsible for the...more

California Court Addresses Payment of Self-Insured Retention

by Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP on 1/13/2012

In its recent decision in National Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford v. Federal Ins. Co., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 641 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 4, 2012), the United States District Court for the Northern District of California had occasion to...more

Texas Insurance Law Newsbrief: Special Report: Texas Wildfires & Valued Policy Claims

by Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom, LLP on 9/19/2011

In this Special Report, the TILN looks at valued policy law in Texas and "liquidated" claims for policy proceeds. We anticipate that the claims arising from the fires will bring these issues to the forefront for insurers and...more

Commercial Betterment: Why client money shouldn´t grow on trees.

by Adrian Reyes on 7/20/2011

Conventional Damages analyses are further complicated in cases of commercial loss where the compensation of the loss may result in a net gain to the Plaintiff. The law in Ontario as laid out by the Court of Appeal in James...more