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Ronald Motley, of Motley Rice, one of the nation’s largest plaintiffs’ litigation firms, received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010 at the AAJ annual convention in...

Injury Board would like to Congratulate Gibson Vance for his recent appointment as President of the American Association for Justice. Vance will be one of six officers representing AAJ’s...

Two years after the Riegel decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, patients injured by medical devices still have no recourse in the court to hold the device maker accountable. The Riegel decision applies to medical devices that undergo FDA approval, many do not.

Patient safety was highly controversial on the House floor Saturday night when members shouted "trial lawyer" to one representative. But patient safety is generally agreed to be one key to bringing down health care costs and to save at least 98,000 deaths a year, as emphasized in this AAJ campaign.

Are there too many frivolous lawsuits? It's tough to find any backing to that claim that will be heard when health care debate begins later this week. But there is plenty of evidence that 100,000 to 200,000 Americans are dying every year from medical error - and most don't file lawsuits.

Tort reform is being challenged by injured patients or their spouses in Georgia and Indiana. Not allowing the jury to decide on a case's worth is unconstitutional said the judge in the Georgia case.

President Barack Obama Wednesday called for sweeping changes to the Bush administration directive of federal pre-emption that shields companies from lawsuits over their dangerous and defective products.