all - Opinion Summaries

Andrews v. Cervantes

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action alleging, inter alia, a cause of action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment premised on the danger of...

Allstate Ins. Co. v. Blount

Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an insurer's declaratory judgment suit seeking a determination that a homeowner's insurance policy it issued to defendant did not provide coverage...

White v. Howmedica, Inc.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a product liability suit involving a prosthetic knee manufactured by defendant and used in plaintiff's knee replacement, summary judgment for...

O'Casek v. The Childrens Home and Aid Soc'y of Illinois

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit for medical malpractice, dismissal of the complaint is reversed where Public Act 90-579 did not reenact the civil reform language regarding...

Delgado v. Interinsurance Exchange of the Auto Club of S. Cal.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In bad faith refusal to defend action arising from underlying personal injury action where settling defendant assigned his rights against his insurer,...

Nitco Holding Corp. v. Boujikian

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A party procedurally defaults a civil appeal, based on alleged insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, if it fails to file a...

Lott v. Pfizer, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law
In a purported class action against a pharmaceutical company alleging misrepresentation of health hazards associated with two drugs, award of...

Reis v. Walker

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute brought by former employee against the corporation's president and chief executive officer involving claims based on allegations that...

Berkley v. Dowds

Civil Procedure, Elder Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a wife's cross-action against respondent-physician who attended wife's deceased husband before the latter died after suffering brain damage in an...

Ermoian v. Desert Hosp.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In an action brought against a hospital and nurse after plaintiff-minor was born with brain abnormalities that left her severely mentally retarded and...