Personal Injury and Tort Law
Air Safe.com
www.airsafe.com
Use this site to search for airplane fatalities by airline, location or type of aircraft, or simply go to a list of all airline fatalities since 1970. Information on airline service complaints, overbooked flights and flight delays. Provides advice on travel safety and help in overcoming fears about flying.
American Bar Association - Tort and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS)
www.abanet.org/tips/home.html
This site provides general information on membership, committee structures and coming events, as well as a book store. Also offers publications and a newsletter.
Automobile Recall Database
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/recalls/index.cfm
Office of Defects Investigation, this database allows searches of automobile recalls by year, make and model. The result of a search is a complete report on the recall. It details the number of units affected, dates of manufacture and provides a descriptive summary of the reasons for the recall and any actions that should follow from it.
Consumer Law Page
http://consumerlawpage.com
Offers an encyclopedia collection of articles and brochures of interest to PI lawyers and consumers. Topics include automobiles, insurance, product liability, toxic torts, and traumatic brain injuries. Also offers a link to the National consumer Complaint Center which provides a method of communicating consumer complaints to agencies that that are interested in investigating and taking action.
Crashtest.com
www.crashtest.com
This site draws together vehicle crash test data from several sources, it compiles assessments of new and used cars generated by federal and insurance sources.
Defense Research Institute
www.dri.org
National Bar Association which members consist of more than 21,000 defense, insurance and corporate counsel. Through this site, members can access more than two dozen DRI committees and topical e-mail discussion lists. Also offers DRI publications, committee newsletters, various in-depth articles and a searchable expert witness database.
Fatality Analysis Reporting System
www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov
FARS provides data on all motor vehicle crashes in the U.S. that occur on public roads and result in fatality whether to a vehicle occupant or someone else. Covers the fifty states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, includes fatalities that occur within thirty days of the crash.
Find Law - Legal Subjects
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
scripts/lc.pl?entry=TORT+LAW&sites=findlaw.com
Provides thousands of legal sites, cases, codes, forms, articles, resources,law reviews, and much more.
Health Administration Responsibility Project
www.harp.org
This site focuses on the liability of managed care organizations for the consequences of their decisions. Organized as a hypertext outline, it sets out theories of liability, sources of law and obstacles to trial. Also sponsors a listserv for discussion of these issues.
Hieros Gamos
http://www.hg.org/torts.html
A large and comprehensive legal site with links to federal and state agencies, organizations, cases, laws, regulation codes, publications, resources and much more.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
www.hwysafety.org
Find crash test readings from forty mph frontal offset crash tests conducted by the IIHS Vehicle Research Center, as well as results of low-speed bumper tests. Also has a library which includes reports on related issues, motor vehicle laws and fatality reports, injury, collision and theft information.
LII - Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/torts.html
Cornell University's library center summarizes the body of tort law, discussing its agencies and sharing laws, cases, news and links.
Product Liability Law
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/products_liability.html
Cornell University's library center summarizes the body of product liability law, discussing its agencies and sharing laws, cases, news and links.
The National Aviation Safety Data Analysis Center
http://www.faa.gov/safety/
Replaces the former NASDAC, provides the public with access to several of the principal aviation safety data and information sources the Federal Government uses for various purposes.
Rand Institute for Civil Justice
http://www.rand.org/icj
This organization is devoted to the study of the civil justice system and known for its studies of trends in jury verdicts, and relevance to tort lawyers and relating issues. Some reports from these studies are available free in full text, others are summarized with information on how to purchase the full text in print from Rand. Search for a report on ICJ's site by its title or available reports by topic.
Society of Automotive Engineers
http://www.sae.org/servlets/index
This is the place to research technical standards and specifications. This site offers a wealth of information related to designing, building, maintaining and operating motor vehicles or craft for use on land, water or in the air. Complete libraries of standards and specifications, technical papers, books and professional periodicals available.
Standards and Specifications
http://www.scholarly-societies.org/standards.html
Site provides links to more than fifty collections of full text professional standards and specifications promulgated by organizations such as American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Iron and Steel institute, American National Standards Institute SAE International and more.
State Tobacco Information Center
http://stic.neu.edu/index.html
This center was created to keep the public informed of developments in the litigation. Organized by state, this extensive collection provides the full text of pleadings, memoranda, affidavits and court orders.
Tobacco BBS
www.tobacco.org
This site focuses on a range of tobacco and smoking issues. It features legal, regulatory and health news and information. Also find a collection of links to tobacco resources and documents as well as a broad-ranging collection of links to tobacco resources and documents elsewhere on the Web.
Tobacco Industry Documents
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/tobacco_industry/
Entry / help page connecting to the categories of tobacco documents provided by the Center for Disease Control.
Toxlaw.com
www.toxlaw.com
A web based news and discussion forum for toxic tort litigators. In addition to the general discussion forum, there are forums devoted to sick building syndrome and multiple-chemical sensitivity. A useful feature is ChemTracker, a tool for performing chemical, pathogen, and allergen research over multiple Web sites.
Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin
www.tarorigin.com
Serves as a critical forum for ideas and techniques used in traffic and accident reconstruction. Find discussion forum, an extensive library with articles, a directory of experts, e-mail addresses of accident reconstruction experts worldwide, and a directory of organizations.
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
www.tlpj.org
This organization specializes in public-interest litigation in the areas of toxic torts, the environment, access to the courts, class action abuse prevention, and discrimination. The site describes currently involved cases and provides a library of briefs and legal documents filed by the TLPJ.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
http://cpsc.gov
Review the most recent product recalls, or search for recalls by product, company or key words. May also review statistical reports analyzing injuries due to a variety of defects. Maintains a searchable library and operates a list serv for press releases, product recalls and safety announcements.
U.S. Department of Transportation
www.dot.gov
A mega site useful for its databases of laws, regulations, product recalls, safety notices. Other information under the DOT umbrella includes the National highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Coast Gaurd, the Federal highway Administration and the Federal Railroad Administration.
Vacatur Center
www.andersonkill.com
This site is devoted to publishing vacated judicial opinions, based on insurance companies paying off litigants to keep damaging precedent off the books.
Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars
Provides access to mortality data, first, mortality reports which list numbers and rates of deaths for specific injuries. Second, leading causes of death, can be used to determine the number of injury-related deaths relative to the number of other leading causes of deaths. Users can search by state, gender, race and year.
