Personal injury law resources

Related subject areas

o         Damages & remedies
o         Health
o         Insurance
o         Motor Vehicle
o         Tort
 
Books
Canadian
o       * Bruce, C., Assessment of Personal Injury Damages, 4th ed. (Toronto: Butterworths, 2004)
o       Carlson & Carlson, Personal injury damages (Markham: LexisNexis, annual)
o       Chronic Pain: the Optimal Treatment & Successful Litigation of Chronic Pain Cases (Vancouver: Trial Lawyers Association of B.C., 2006)
o       Cooper-Stephenson, Personal Injury Damages in Canada, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 1996)
o       * Gluckstein & Samis, Personal Injury Practice Manual (Markham: Butterworths, looseleaf)
o       * Goldsmith, Damages for Personal Injury and Death: Consolidated Table of Damages (Toronto: Carswell, looseleaf)
o       Gross, Injury Evaluation, Medicolegal Principles (Markham: Butterworths, 1991)
o       Hoffman, The Emotional Consequences of Personal Injury: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers, 2nd ed. (Markham: Butterworths, 2001)
o       Jung et al., Pain, sleep and depression (Vancouver: Trial Lawyers Association of B.C., 2004)
o       Lacerte & Forcier, Independent Medical Examinations for Insurance and Legal Reports, 2nd ed. (Toronto, Butterworths, 2004)
o       Logan et al., The essential soft tissue injury conference 2006 (Vancouver: Trial Lawyers Association of B.C., 2006)
o       Malleson, Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002)
o       Matlow, Personal injury litigation: guidance from health care professionals (Aurora: Canada Law Book, 2000)
o       Medical and Legal Issues in Brain Injury (Vancouver: Trial Lawyers Association of B.C., 2005)
o       Nemet-Brown, S., Canada Quantum Digest: The Civil Litigator's Companion (Markham: LexisNexis, 2008)
o       Oatley & McLeish, Oatley-McLeish guide to personal injury practice in motor vehicle cases (Aurora: Canada Law Book, looseleaf)
o       Oatley & McLeish, The Oatley-McLeish guide to brain injury litigation (Markham: Butterworths, 2005)
o       * Personal Injury Damage Assessments in British Columbia (Markham: Butterworths, looseleaf) (3 volumes)
o       Proving medical causation: where medicine and law intersect (Vancouver: Trial Lawyers Association of B.C., 2005)
o       Roccamo & Haydon, Medicine in the litigation process (Scarborough, Ontario: Carswell, 1999)
o       Slater et al., Medical & legal issues in brain injury (Vancouver: Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia, 2005)
 
English
o       Curran, P., Personal injury pleadings (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1995)
o       Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases, 8th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
o       Kaufman, Rogers & Martin, Economic Foundations of Injury and Death Damages (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2005)
o       Kemp, D., Damages for personal injury and death (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1999)
o       Markesinis et al., Compensation for Personal Injury in English, German and Italian Law: a Comparative Outline (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
o       Mason et al., Mason’s forensic medicine for lawyers, 5th ed. (London: Tottel Publishing, 2008)
o       Munkman, J., Damages for Personal Injuries and Death, 9th ed. (London: Butterworth, 1993)
 
American
o       Gordy & Gray, Attorney's textbook of medicine, 3rd ed. (San Francisco, Matthew Bender, looseleaf) (23 volumes)
o       Guides to the evaluation of permanent impairment, 6th ed. (American Medical Association, 2008)
o       Lawyers' medical cyclopedia of personal injuries and allied specialties 4th ed. (Virginia, Lexis, 2001) (6 volumes )
o       Melton & Young, Medical Proof of Whiplash (Costa Mesa, CA: James Publishing, 2007)
o       Stedman, T., Stedman's medical dictionary, 28th ed. (Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006)
o       Turnbow, C., Slip & Fall Practice (Costa Mesa, California: James Publishing, 2008)
o       What's It Worth?: A Guide to Current Personal Injury Awards and Settlements (New York: Kluwer Law, 2008)
o       Winer et al., Proving Mental & Emotional Injuries (Costa Mesa, California: James Publishing, 2008)
 
Legaltree recommended lawyer
Michael Dew practices personal injury law in Vancouver, B.C.
 
Blogs
Personal injury and disability law cases in Canada: http://lawbroker.ca/blog/
Fibromyalgia research, news, and clinical trials: http://fibroresearch.blogspot.com/
Cuming Gillespie & Raymaker: http://www.cuminggillespie.com/blog/
Neinstein & Associates LLP personal injury blog: http://www.neinstein.com/articles/blog
 
Websites
Compendium of damages awarded in personal injury actions across Ontario (January 1999 – November 2005)
 
Online medical dictionary
 
Lex Specialis
 
US Department of Health guide to finding health-related information
 
US National Library of Medicine

 

Lawyer referral websites

Law Broker personal injury lawyer and disability lawyer referral

 

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