Louisiana’s Traumatic Head Injury or Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund provides services to Louisiana citizens who survive traumatic head or traumatic spinal cord injuries, and who have exhausted all other governmental and private resources. Individual services are limited to $15,000 per year, with a cap of $50,000 over the individual’s…
So much for the medical malpractice crisis in Louisiana. Louisiana doctors will receive a 10% dividend this year from Louisiana’s largest medical malpractice insurer bringing the total amount of insurance premiums returned by the malpractice insurer to health care providers since 2008 to $20,500,000. Thomas H. Grimstad, M.D., President /…
Esteemed LSU Law Pofessor Emeritus, Saul Litvinoff, died the morning of January 5, 2010 at the age of 84. Professor Litvinoff, a former Boyd Professor, joined the LSU Law Center in 1965 and became director of the Center for Civil Law Studies in 1976. He retired in 2009. Professor Litvinoff…
On January 4, 2010, and 18 wheeler being operated by a Jonesboro, Louisiana man traveling northbound on U.S. Highway 167 near the Jackson Parish and Winn Parish line crossed the center line and struck an oncoming car being operated by a Winnfield, Louisiana woman. Both drivers were killed. While Louisiana…
Two men supposedly cooking fish were rushed to Springhill Medical Center and then to LSU Medical Center’s Burn Unit in Shreveport, Louisiana, with serious burn injuries following an explosion at their Sarepta, Louisiana home on December 29, 2009. Webster Parish Deputies are investigating the true cause of the explosion. According…
Around 3:05 a.m. on Friday, January 1, 2010, an Eros man was killed when the driver of the truck he was occupying lost control and struck a tree in Jackson Parish, Louisiana. Both occupants were ejected since neither was wearing a seat belt. Under Louisiana law, the doctrine of comparative…
On December 22, 2009, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that approximately 8,500 Polaris All-Terrain Vehicles (Sportsman ATVs) manufactured between January and August 2009 and sold between February 2009 through November 2009 were voluntarily recalled by Polaris Industries, Inc. . Polaris has received 19 reports of incidents involving the loss…
Dollar Tree Stores, Inc., in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, voluntarily recalled approximately 204,000 Tool Bench Utility Knives sold at Dollar Tree, Dollar Bill$, Greenbacks and Deal$ stores nationwide between April 2009 and October 2009. While Dollar Tree has only received one complaint of injury, the utility knife’s…
The Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal, in an opinion not designated for publication, reaffirmed that once a party has been dismissed from the litigation by a summary judgment, that former party cannot be named on the verdict form and cannot have any percentage of fault attributed thereto.Quinn v. State…
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Watts Regulator Company voluntary recalled about 900 one inch 140X-9 Temperature and Pressure Relief Valves sold through distributors nationwide from October 2006 through July 2009 for between $250 and $280. The valves were typically sold as replacement parts for large water heaters used…