21. -- The high court refused to clear up a legal controversy about whether to stiffen rules limiting the use of expert testimony in personal injury cases and other lawsuits. 22. But they could not demand monetary damages, as they can, for example, in personal injury cases. 23. Cochran said the new firm would primarily handle standard personal injury cases, including medical malpractice and product liability cases. 24. Even Irwin Kosover, a lawyer who represents the insurance companies that pay out the awards in personal injury cases, offered his sympathies. 25. Ford has resolved an unknown number of personal injury cases, often on the condition that the records be sealed. 26. Ford has resolved an unknown number of personal injury cases, often on the condition that the records in those cases be sealed. 27. He instructed the judges to adjudicate only minor injury cases. 28. His firm, Greenberg Traurig, is not the sort that typically handles personal injury cases, much less sex abuse cases against a powerful institution. 29. Judge Joseph Greenaway ruled that RICO did not apply to personal injury cases. 30. Less frivolously, courts have nailed automakers with multimillion-dollar damages in injury cases with the intent of forcing them to build safer cars. |