When an independent contractor is called into remediate a particular situation and an employee of that contractor is injured by that situation, the general contractor is not going to be liable for that injury.
Admissibility of Plaintiff’s prior medical history for impeachment purposes. Admissible if you can show a possibility that the prior injuries are the real cause of the symptoms. (Unfair to allow Plaintiff to be painted as a hail and healthy individual when, in fact, she’d had prior neck injuries.)
The Supreme Court overrode a Court of Appeals decision with the Supreme Court going with a more liberal reading of the immunity provided to governmental entities that offer enhanced emergency communication systems.
Lots of medical malpractice cases.
Transitory symptoms are insufficient to constitute a physical impact sufficient to support a negligent infliction of emotional distress claim in a case where passengers sued an airline after it allegedly took insufficient measures to rein in a nutjob fellow passenger that was making everybody nervous.
Fiancee can’t sue for negligent infliction of emotional distress as a bystander the same way a spouse can.
Requirement that the Plaintiff pay up to $1,000 of Defendant’s attorney’s fees after rejected Qualified Settlement Offer and lesser verdict than offer is still valid even where an insurer pays the attorney’s fees.
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