Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 3/7/08

It’s that time of the week again…our final 10-post update until Monday. And what a bounty of posts in is: the risks of blogging, insurance company tactics, updated websites and body snatching are just some of the issues covered in our roundup today.

• Personal injury cases are put to the test by the Fake Bad Scale – Juliet Sallette at LaBovick & LaBovick in the firm’s LaBovick Injury Law Blog
• Is blogging hazardous for your career? – Iowa attorney Rush Nigut in his blog, Rush on Business
• North of the border: reorganization under Canada’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act – San Francisco attorney Bob Eisenbach at Cooley Godward at the firm’s In The (Red) Business Bankruptcy Blog
• Insurance company tactics now off the scale – Texas lawyer Angel Reyes of Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson, & Bartolomei in the firm’s Angel Reyes Blog
• Oregon Supreme Court revisits constitutionality of punitive damage bad faith award – Boston attorney Michael Aylward of Morrison & Mahoney at the National Insurance Law Forum
• Let governing boards, not state, decide hospitals’ fate – New Jersey lawyer Richard J. Webb of Healthcare Neutral in his Healthcare Neutral ADR Blog
• WV Supreme Court says insurance company can challenge confession of judgment, award of attorney’s fees – Charleston attorney Jeffrey Mehalic in his West Virginia Business Litigation Blog
• Employee leasing company not liable for injuries to employee of its client – Orange Park lawyer David A. McCranie in his Florida Workers’ Compensation Law Blog
• Northern District has an excellent new website – Illinois attorney R. David Donoghue of DLA Piper in his Chicago IP Litigation Blog
• Macabre gap in New Zealand law? – David M. Smith at Hull & Holl in the Canadian law firm’s Toronto Estate Law Blog