On June 14, 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that changes the landscape of personal injury and workers’ compensation third-party cases. The Court declared a 1986 law which originally capped non-economic damages to $250,000 and actual damages to $1 million—unconstitutional.
From an early age, we learn through literature and movies that fantasy is attainable. A young woman living in obscurity and neglect can slip on glass shoes and ride a pumpkin to the castle to marry a prince. Is it any wonder that a claimant might expect a soft-tissue injury to generate a windfall?
Torrential downpours hammered South Jersey overnight, flooding highways, forcing the PATCO High Speed Line to halt suburban operations and triggering evacuations of residents along the Rancocas and Big Timber creeks.
Three weeks after a hail storm in Hollister, people are still dealing with damage to their homes. Homeowners are having to be patient as local contractors work busy schedules, dealing with messes that this spring’s wild weather has left behind.
Two semitrailer truck drivers have been killed in a multi-vehicle crash on I-41/94 in Racine County. All lanes of the highway were closed just after 11 a.m. Wednesday because of the crash. The southbound lanes lanes reopened at Ryan Road at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
It started in Australia, made its way to Europe, and has been growing in the United States. In fact, litigation funding has grown 414 percent in this country from 2013 to 2017, according to a 2017 report by Burford Capital. It’s now a multi-billion-dollar business.
Relief may be coming for some Florida property insurers in an escalating crisis surrounding assignment of benefits (AOB), and ISO is already developing revisions to our forms and rating factors to respond to a new law that addresses this costly issue for many in the industry and, indirectly, property insurance customers.
An American judge says an insurance company must extend liability coverage to a teenager who was convicted of criminally negligent homicide after a Wilmington, Delaware school bathroom attack captured on cellphone video that left a 16-year-old girl dead.
You’ve just wrecked your car and a Mobile police officer arranges for your vehicle to be towed, picking a towing company off a list kept by the department.
In September 2018, we assessed the impact of the headline-grabbing $289 million verdict delivered by a San Francisco jury in DeWayne Johnson v. Monsanto Company. Johnson, a former school groundskeeper, alleged that his occupational use of the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup caused him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).
As the impacts of climate change are increasingly felt in communities around the globe, the impact of climate change litigation will increasingly be felt in the courts.
The National Weather Service says four tornadoes touched down in North Texas Sunday afternoon. An EF-1 tornado touched down in North Arlington, not far from Globe Life Park.
If workers’ compensation were an aquarium, most states would be a small to medium sized fish. A couple would be guppies. Some would be dolphins. Illinois would be a shark. And California would be a whale.
