Does anyone remember Judge Robert Bork? The notoriously conservative, anti-tori supreme court nominee who was famously "Borked"?
Well, suddenly after a fall at the Yale Club he is a little more pro-tort, at least when he is the one who is personally injured.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/nyregion/08bork.html?_r=1&oref=slogin