Resources—Personal Injury and Negligence

ABA Section on Tort Trial and Insurance Practice

http://www.abanet.org/tips/home.html

Home page.

American Arbitration Association

http://www.adr.org/

Home page with an extensive collection of articles in Word 6.0 format available for downloading on a number of ADR topics.

American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)

http://www.abms.org

Provides information on the board certification status of physicians and the certification process.

American Medical Association

http://www.ama-assn.org

Home page. Medical information and Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) also searchable for non-members.

CRASHTEST.com

http://www.crashtest.com

A free online database compiled from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) crash-test data covering many new and used vehicles going back to the 1970s.

FindLaw’s Tort pages

http://www.findlaw.com/
01topics/22tort/

Numerous links to tort and negligence resources on the Internet.

Health Law Resource

http://www.netreach.net/
~wmanning/

Developed and maintained by Pennsylvania attorney William L. Manning, the Health Law Resource contains a valuable collection of links on the regulatory and transactional aspects of health care law practice.

National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/

The site is an online interface for searching the computerized databases offered by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Kelley Blue Book

http://www.kbb.com/

Online version of car value guide.

KnowX

http://www.knowx.com

Subscription-based site containing a centralized location for searching comprehensive public records compiled from official sources.

LII’s Personal Injury and Tort pages

http://www.law.cornell.edu/
topics/torts.html

Site contains links to primary and secondary resources on personal injury and tort law.

Medical Matrix

http://www.medmatrix.org/
reg/login.asp

Medical Matrix is a directory of selected medical sites on the Internet, with an emphasis on usefulness to healthcare practitioners. Users must register and pay to access the materials.

MedicineNet.com

http://www.medicinenet.com

Interactive website useful in looking up information on diseases, treatments, drugs, and procedures. Content is provided by member physicians.

Medscape

http://www.medscape.com

Searchable site with links to Medline^®, articles grouped around specialties; requires free member registration.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Home page containing links to databases of medical information and to full text literature databases.

Online Medical Dictionary

http://cancerweb.ncl.
ac.uk/omd/

Online medical dictionary for looking up medical conditions and terminology.

RxList

http://rxlist.com

Searchable drug index.

The Highway Safety Desk Book

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/
injury/enforce/deskbk.html

This page contains the full text of the police officer’s Desk Book published by the NHTSA, which contains federal guidelines on a number of traffic safety topics.