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Recent Leg Damage Awards, Doris Hauth Jan 1961

Recent Leg Damage Awards, Doris Hauth

Cleveland State Law Review

Injuries to the leg include fractures of the various bones of the leg (tibia, femur and fibula), fractures of the foot, ankle, knee or hip, and amputation of one, both, or a part of the leg. This article includes a digest of cases arising in the last five years involving leg injuries. The facts in each case are briefly stated and the damage award specified.


Book Review, Milton Oppenheim Jan 1961

Book Review, Milton Oppenheim

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing David W. Louisell and Harold Williams, Trial of Medical Malpractice Cases, Matthew Bender & Co., Inc., 1960


Admission Of Liability, Richard H. Burgess Jan 1961

Admission Of Liability, Richard H. Burgess

Cleveland State Law Review

There is a great amount of resistance to the admission of liability when the slightest defense is available. Many defendants' attorneys would prefer to take the long chance of hoping for an unexpected verdict rather than admit fault and leave only the issue of damages to the jury. Surprisingly, there have actually been cases in which liability was admitted and the jury returned a verdict of no cause of action. Generally speaking, though, an admission of liability will tend to keep the damage award reasonable, but it will take away the slight possibility of an unexpected defendant's verdict.


Recent Developments In Ohio's Charitable Immunity Law, Crawford Morris Jan 1961

Recent Developments In Ohio's Charitable Immunity Law, Crawford Morris

Cleveland State Law Review

It is now almost five years since our Supreme Court announced its decision in the Avellone case. During these five years, the two problems created by the Avellone decision have ,like "Mother Carrie's chickens" "come home to roost." Our Supreme Court has resolved each in turn, one in favor of charitable immunity for all charitable institutions except those that have the misfortune to run hospitals, the other further against hospitals for all acts of all servants.


Refusal Of Surgery In Mitigation Of Damages, Eileen Kelley Jan 1961

Refusal Of Surgery In Mitigation Of Damages, Eileen Kelley

Cleveland State Law Review

Generally where one has been injured by another's wrongful conduct he is required to exercise ordinary care and reasonable prudence to seek medical treatment so as to minimize the defendant's damages. Failure to do so may diminish the amount of damages the injured person may recover. This is a fundamental principle of the law of damages, and not of tort.


Fair Dealing In Personal Injury Cases, Philip J. Hermann Jan 1961

Fair Dealing In Personal Injury Cases, Philip J. Hermann

Cleveland State Law Review

It is submitted that where there is fair dealing on the part of plaintiff's attorney and insurance company, a great deal of needless expense to both will have been eliminated enabling insurance companies to handle their claims and lawsuits with fewer personnel and smaller defense fees. And plaintiff's attorneys on their part, will be able to bring to conclusion more work during the course of a year; and where a staff is required, they will be able to operate with fewer personnel. The result to the plaintiff's attorney will be an increase in net income and perhaps more time for …


Death Damages And Conflicts Of Laws, Marvin D. Silver Jan 1961

Death Damages And Conflicts Of Laws, Marvin D. Silver

Cleveland State Law Review

Since the adoption of the Fatal Accidents Act of 1846 in the United Kingdom, each of the fifty United States has created by statute a similar right of action which pertains to the survivors or to the estate of the decedent whose death resulted from the wrongful acts of another. During recent years, fourteen states have incorporated within their wrongful death statutes a maximum limitation on the amount of damages recoverable. These restrictions consistently trouble the courts when a wrongful death occurs in one of these limiting states and the suit is brought elsewhere. However, the courts have, with a …


Negligently Inflicted Psychic Injuries: A Return To Reason, Alvan Brody Jan 1961

Negligently Inflicted Psychic Injuries: A Return To Reason, Alvan Brody

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lung Cancer Liability Of Cigarette Manufacturers, Richard H. Burgess Jan 1961

Lung Cancer Liability Of Cigarette Manufacturers, Richard H. Burgess

Cleveland State Law Review

The medical evidence is quite strong as to tobacco causation of lung cancer. However, this leaves several legal questions to be answered before a plaintiff can recover from a cigarette manufacturer. The primary question at hand is: Do cigarette manufacturers impliedly warrant that their product is not dangerous to health; or, if not, do they have a duty to warn the public or the consumers in some direct way of the probable dangers to health in smoking. To phrase it differently, recovery will most likely lie in either implied warranty or in negligence, until statutory provisions are made to help …


Unilateral Mistake Of Fact In Personal Injury Releases, Paul D. Malina Jan 1961

Unilateral Mistake Of Fact In Personal Injury Releases, Paul D. Malina

Cleveland State Law Review

Many personal injury cases that appear on court calendars, as well as many not filed, are settled before trial. Settlements usually involve payment by the alleged wrongdoer in consideration of a release executed by the injured party. As for the alleged wrongdoer, this act settles the conflict in that the releasor has bargained away his legal remedy. As for the releasor, compensation for the injury was his objective. Sparse authority to the contrary, a release constitutes a contract, the validity of which can be affected by fraud, duress or mistake. Generally, one need not go into equity and pray for …


Recent Head Damage Awards, Eileen Kelley Jan 1961

Recent Head Damage Awards, Eileen Kelley

Cleveland State Law Review

Head trauma is responsible for more litigation than any other single bodily mechanical damage. Belli ranks brain injuries second only to the back and spine in producing permanent and crippling disabilities.


Recent Eye Damage Awards, Margaret Mazza Jan 1961

Recent Eye Damage Awards, Margaret Mazza

Cleveland State Law Review

Impairment of vision may be either temporary or permanent and may be caused by direct trauma, burns, or any other injury to the face near the area of the eyes. Vision may be impaired or completely lost due to injury to the brain or associated nerves. The list of cases below gives descriptions and awards in some recent eye injury suits.


Recent Back Damage Awards, Carl H. Miller Jan 1961

Recent Back Damage Awards, Carl H. Miller

Cleveland State Law Review

Injuries to the human back have long perplexed the legal world. This is especially true of the soft tissue area of the back, where objective medical tests give way to the vagueness of a "sprained" muscle, and the court finds itself torn between the desire to adequately compensate an injured plaintiff and the caution that must prevail where objective tests are inadequate. Generally speaking, we will be concerned with that portion of the back that is not skeletal in nature,and though the interaction of the spine with the muscular structure permits little latitude in separating them, we will do so …


Blood Transfusion Liability, James A. Thomas Jan 1961

Blood Transfusion Liability, James A. Thomas

Cleveland State Law Review

This paper is concerned with the causes of action available to the recipients of blood transfusions causing injury or death. Its scope is limited to cases where injury or death is caused by the blood itself, as where a transfusion is given with blood which is of the wrong type, or which is infected, or which is given to the wrong person.


Recent Whiplash Damage Awards, Esther Weissman Jan 1961

Recent Whiplash Damage Awards, Esther Weissman

Cleveland State Law Review

In viewing more than 100 recent appellate cases concerning whiplash, one is struck by the lack of any definite standard or pattern of awards.


Torts - Strict Liability - Landowner Is Liable For Damage Done To Property Of Others By Crop Spraying, Robert J. Jackson Jan 1961

Torts - Strict Liability - Landowner Is Liable For Damage Done To Property Of Others By Crop Spraying, Robert J. Jackson

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Conflict Of Laws - Wrongful Death Statute - Refusal To Apply Damage Limitation Of Foreign Wrongful Death Statute, Ned W. Manashil Jan 1961

Conflict Of Laws - Wrongful Death Statute - Refusal To Apply Damage Limitation Of Foreign Wrongful Death Statute, Ned W. Manashil

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Libel And Slander - Disparagement Of Product - Expanding Protection Against Trade Libel, James G. Lepis Jan 1961

Libel And Slander - Disparagement Of Product - Expanding Protection Against Trade Libel, James G. Lepis

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Basis Of Strict Products Liability, Reed Dickerson Jan 1961

The Basis Of Strict Products Liability, Reed Dickerson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This paper was presented before the Division of Food Drug Cosmetic Law, Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law of the American Bar Association at the Annual Meeting in St. Louis, August 9. It Is a companion paper to "Restatement or Reformation?" by William J. Condon, which appeared in the August, 1961 issue of this magazine. Mr. Dickerson Is Professor of Law at Indiana University and author of Products Liability and the Food Consumer.


The Expanding Risks Of Products Liability, Reed Dickerson Jan 1961

The Expanding Risks Of Products Liability, Reed Dickerson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Stason, Estep And Pierce: Atoms And The Law, Harry Kalven, Jr. Jan 1961

Stason, Estep And Pierce: Atoms And The Law, Harry Kalven, Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Atoms and the Law. By E. Blythe Stason, Samuel D. Estep and William J. Pierce. [Parts I and II* Pp. 1-846]


Damages--Propriety Of Per Diem Valuation Of Pain And Suffering By Counsel In Closing Argument, Jackson W. White Jan 1961

Damages--Propriety Of Per Diem Valuation Of Pain And Suffering By Counsel In Closing Argument, Jackson W. White

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Torts--Infants--Right Of Action In Negligence Permitted By Unemancipated Infant Against His Unemancipated Brother, Philip Taliaferro Iii Jan 1961

Torts--Infants--Right Of Action In Negligence Permitted By Unemancipated Infant Against His Unemancipated Brother, Philip Taliaferro Iii

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Torts--Conclusive Presumption That Attractive Nuisance Doctrine Is Of No Benefit At Age Fourteen, Howard Downing Jan 1961

Torts--Conclusive Presumption That Attractive Nuisance Doctrine Is Of No Benefit At Age Fourteen, Howard Downing

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Torts--Federal Tort Claims Act--Negligent Appraisal By Agent Of Federal Housing Commissioner, H. Jefferson Herbert Jr. Jan 1961

Torts--Federal Tort Claims Act--Negligent Appraisal By Agent Of Federal Housing Commissioner, H. Jefferson Herbert Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Torts--Nuisance--Interference With The Flow Of Surface Water, Thomas H. Burnett Jan 1961

Torts--Nuisance--Interference With The Flow Of Surface Water, Thomas H. Burnett

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Loss Of Consortium To Wife Caused By Negligence Of Third Party, William M. Dishman Jr. Jan 1961

Loss Of Consortium To Wife Caused By Negligence Of Third Party, William M. Dishman Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Sales - Privity - Disclaimer Of Implied Warranty, Richard W. Odgers Jan 1961

Sales - Privity - Disclaimer Of Implied Warranty, Richard W. Odgers

Michigan Law Review

Husband purchased a new automobile from a dealer. The contract of sale contained on its reverse side an express warranty from the manufacturer to the "original purchaser" providing for the replacement of any parts which were returned to the manufacturer and were in its judgment defective. The warranty was " ... expressly in lieu of all other warranties expressed or implied .... " The dealer warranty was substantially identical to that extended by the manufacturer; both adhered to the form prescribed by the Automobile Manufacturer's Association. Shortly after the delivery of the automobile, wife was injured in a collision caused …


Sales - Implied Warranty - Privity Of Contract As A Prerequisite To Recovery From Manufacturer, John L. Peschel S. Ed. Jan 1961

Sales - Implied Warranty - Privity Of Contract As A Prerequisite To Recovery From Manufacturer, John L. Peschel S. Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff sustained injuries in the course of his employment when a defective abrasive wheel, while being used in its intended manner, exploded in his face. The abrasive wheel was purchased by plaintiff's employer directly from the manufacturer. Plaintiff sought recovery from the manufacturer on two grounds: negligence in the manufacture of the abrasive wheel and breach of implied warranty for fitness of purpose. The negligence issue was submitted to the jury, which returned a verdict adverse to the plaintiff. The manufacturer's demurrer to the cause of action based upon implied warranty was sustained by the trial court. On appeal from …