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Court Affirms Labor Law § 240(1) Liability Despite Lack of Witnesses and Plaintiff’s Potential Comparative Negligence

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Mederos v. 147 Amsterdam (2025 NY Slip OP 01895 (237 AD3d 410) - The plaintiff was injured when he fell off a scaffold. However, there were no witnesses who saw him fall. Other workers heard a sound and then found the...more

Carlton Fields

Seventh Circuit Affirms Broad Reading of CGL Policy’s “Radioactive Matter Exclusion” to Include EMF Radiation

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On July 9, 2025, in Hammond Power Solutions Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance Co., the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s decision granting summary judgment to the insurer and finding, under...more

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Calculating Past Medicals in California

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The Third District Court of Appeal in California recently addressed the standard in proving the reasonableness of charges for past medical services within the context of the Hospital Lien Act’s definition of emergency and...more

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Taming the Wolf: Florida’s Fifth DCA Holds the Line on Tort Reform

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The Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal recently issued a significant decision in Wolf v. Williams, clarifying that a critical aspect of Florida’s momentous tort reform effort, Section 768.0427, is not retroactive. This...more

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Mass and Toxic Tort Case Update - Asbestos

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Maffei v. A.O. Smith Water Prods. Co. (In re N.Y.C. Asbestos Litigation), 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 1425 (N.Y. App. Div. 2025) - Valuing asbestos cases can sometimes be complicated but on March 13th, 2025, the NY Appellate Court...more

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Going to the Dogs: New York Court of Appeals Opens Door to Animal Negligence Claims

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New York’s Court of Appeals has overturned decades-old precedent and permitted victims of animal-related injuries to recover damages against an animal’s owner. An injured person can now pursue claims against an animal’s owner...more

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Supreme Court Expands the Scope of Injuries under RICO

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On April 2, 2025, the Supreme Court significantly expanded the scope of injuries entitled to treble damages under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”).  The Supreme Court held in Medical Marijuana,...more

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The Supreme Court Update - April 2, 2025

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued two decisions today: FDA v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C., No. 23-1038: This case concerns the validity of the FDA’s denial of electronic cigarette manufacturers’...more

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Redefining the Rules: How Audish v. Macias Reshaped Future Medical Expense Claims in California Personal Injury Cases

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In Audish v. Macias (2024) 102 Cal.App.5th 740, the California Court of Appeal decided a key issue concerning the admissibility of a plaintiff’s future Medicare eligibility in calculating damages for future medical expense...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

D.C. Court Finds A Piggyback Statute Of Limitations In Segway-Crash Case

According to court filings, on October 11, 2019, a Segway struck Marilyn Kubichek and Dorothy Baldwin as they strolled along a D.C. sidewalk....more

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Barking Up the Wrong Policy

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This case is an eye-opener for every policyholder as it explains the importance of treating an insurance policy as a specialized contract. Insurance contracts have special features, but they are still contracts to which the...more

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New Mexico Tribal Courts Have Jurisdiction Over Casino Patron Tort Claims

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In a recent decision, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled in the case of Sipp v. Buffalo Thunder Inc. that state courts do not have the authority to adjudicate tort claims filed by casino visitors. The unanimous decision...more

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Florida Nursing Home Negligence Update: Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal quashes denial of motion to dismiss nursing home...

On August 9, 2023, in Preston v. The Estate of Romanoff, No. 4D23-282 (Fla. 4th DCA August 9, 2023), Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal granted a petition for writ of certiorari and quashed the trial court’s order...more

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Ask Not for Whom the Blue Bell Tolls

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Fifth Circuit Ruling Against Blue Bell’s Corporate Directors and Officers May Limit Availability of Insurance Coverage in Shareholder Derivative Actions - In a recent ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the...more

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Florida Appellate Court Rules That Slip and Fall Safety Report is Privileged under Patient Safety Act

The plaintiff in this negligence suit against Shands Teaching Hospital in Florida was visiting a patient when she slipped and fell on some clear liquid while walking through a hallway. As part of her lawsuit seeking damages...more

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Top Developments - September 2022

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Pepsi-Cola Metro. Bottling Co. v. Emp’rs Ins. Co., 2022 Wisc. App. LEXIS 598 (Wisc. Ct. App. July 8, 2022) - Wisconsin Court of Appeals (in a divided decision) holds that a “post-loss” assignment of rights under a...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Supreme Court Clarifies the Scope of Liability in Negligence for Public Authorities Making “Core Policy Decisions”

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In Nelson (City) v Marchi, 2021 SCC 41, the Supreme Court of Canada held that public authorities may only be shielded from liability in negligence when making decisions that engage public policy considerations, such as...more

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Insurance Update - May 2021

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We bring you our May Insurance Update. In this month’s update: •The Minnesota Supreme Court considers an issue of first impression over the reasonableness of settlement agreements that fail to allocate between covered and...more

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Product Liability 2019 Year in Review

Massachusetts state and federal courts issued a number of important product liability decisions in 2019. The Product Liability practice group at Nutter recently reviewed these cases. Highlighted below are some of the key...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Clever Trial Tactic Meets Resistance at the South Carolina Court of Appeals

In a matter of first impression, the South Carolina Court of Appeals recently put the brakes on a successful trial strategy increasingly employed by the plaintiff’s bar. In the case of Gary Nestler and Julie Nestler v. Joseph...more

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Rehearing Sought of Sixth Circuit’s Montreal Convention Holding on Recoverability of Mental Injuries

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Defendant-appellee Etihad Airways recently petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc of Doe v. Etihad Airways, P.J.S.C., a decision by a panel of that court that...more

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Wisconsin Supreme Court 2013-2014 Term Summary Part 3: Recap of Cases Affecting Wisconsin Businesses

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This post is the third in a series of posts analyzing the 2013-14 term of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This post provides in a nutshell what businesses need to know about the cases from last year’s term of the...more

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