Personal Injury and Tort Law Resources
Air Safe.com
Use AirSafe.com 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.
URL: http://www.airsafe.com/
American Bar Association - Tort and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS)
The American Bar Association - Tort and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) provides general information on membership, committee structures and coming events, as well as a book store. Also offers publications and a newsletter.
URL: http://www.abanet.org/tips/home.html
Automobile Recall Database
The Automobile Recall Database - 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.
URL: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/recalls/
Crashtest.com
Crashtest.com draws together vehicle crash test data from several sources, it compiles assessments of new and used cars generated by federal and insurance sources.
URL: http://www.crashtest.com/
Defense Research Institute (DRI)
[From the site:] The Defense Research Institute: DRI is the international organization of attorneys defending the interests of business and individuals in civil litigation. DRI provides numerous educational and informational resources to DRI members and offers many opportunities for liaison among defense trial lawyers, Corporate America, and state and local defense organizations. DRI also has an international presence, seeking to enhance understanding of the law among members of the defense community who have reason to be concerned with the expanding globalization of litigation defense.
URL: http://www.dri.org/
Fatality Analysis Reporting System
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (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.
URL: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
Find Law - Legal Subjects
FindLaw - Tort Law provides thousands of legal sites, cases, codes, forms, articles, resources, and law reviews on Tort Law resources.
URL: http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/scripts/lc.pl?entry=TORT+LAW&sites=findlaw.com
Health Administration Responsibility Project
The Health Administration Responsibility Project (HARP) 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.
URL: http://www.harp.org/
Hieros Gamos - Personal Injury Tort
The Hieros Gamos is a large and comprehensive legal site with links to federal and state agencies, organizations, cases, laws, regulation codes, publications, resources and much more.
URL: http://www.hg.org/torts.html
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
With Insurance Institute for Highway Safety 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.
URL: http://www.iihs.org/
LII - Legal Information Institute
Cornell University's library center summarizes the body of tort law, discussing its agencies and sharing laws, cases, news and links.
URL: http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Tort
Product Liability Law
Cornell University's library center summarizes the body of product liability law, discussing its agencies and sharing laws, cases, news and links.
URL: http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Products_liability
Rand Institute for Civil Justice
The Rand Institute for Civil Justice is an organization 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.
URL: http://www.rand.org/icj/
Recalls - Recent
With Recalls.gov - Recent, find the most recent recalls issued by the six federal regulatory agencies participating in recalls.gov. Scroll within each of the nine frames to see recalls for each topic, clicking a link to open a new window at the issuing agency's web site.
URL: http://www.recalls.gov/recent.html
Safety Reports - Aviation Safety Data Accessibility Study Index - formerly The National Aviation Safety Data Analysis Center
Replaces the former NASDAC, the National Aviation Safety Data Analysis Center provides the public with access to several of the principal aviation safety data and information sources the Federal Government uses for various purposes.
URL: http://www.asias.faa.gov/aviation_studies/safety_data/safety_data_index.html
Society of Automotive Engineers
The Society of Automotive Engineers 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.
URL: http://www.sae.org/
Standards and Specifications
Sponsored by the University of Waterloo Library, the Standards page provides links to 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.
URL: http://www.scholarly-societies.org/standards.html
USCF Tobacco Litigation Documents
The USCF Tobacco Litigation Documents was created to keep the public informed of developments in the litigation. This extensive collection provides the full text of pleadings, memoranda, affidavits and court orders.
URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/litigation
Tobacco.org
Tobacco.org 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.
URL: http://www.tobacco.org/
Tobacco Industry Documents
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4845a4.htm
In spite of the announcement on the page, at this writing the 27 million documents on tobacco are not available through the CDC. We will reevaluate their site in the near future.
Toxlaw.com
Toxlaw.com is 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.
URL: http://www.toxlaw.com/
Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin
Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin (TARO) 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.
URL: http://www.tarorigin.com/
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice is an organization specializing 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.
URL: http://www.tlpj.org/
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission reviews the most recent product recalls. 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.
URL: http://cpsc.gov/
U.S. Department of Transportation
The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) is 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.
URL: http://www.dot.gov/
Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) from the CDC
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.
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html
