Posts tagged personal injury

• Investigate car wrecks promptly

  Pete Burns | May 12, 2009 6:14 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Prompt investigation of a car wreck involving serious injury or wrongful death is a must. Frequently alcohol is involved in car wrecks and bars are often the source of the alcohol. Dram shop laws...

• CURRENT TRENDS IN JURY AWARDS: “Where Have All the Jury Trials Gone, Long Time Passing?”

  Greg Cusimano | December 29, 2008 10:53 PM | 1 CommentGadsden, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Jury trials have been declining steadily for the last 20 years. If the trend continues, jury trials and even the judicial system as we know it, will be no more. Our judicial system has been a...

• Whose side is your doctor on?

  Pete Burns | January 22, 2011 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It has long been the law in many states that if a patient files suit for personal injury his or her treating physicians are free to discuss the patient's medical condition with lawyers for the other...

• Confidential Settlements

  Pete Burns | June 01, 2009 3:33 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Confidential settlements create thorny issues. Lawyers who represent injured people do not like confidentiality agreements. Those agreements help culpable defendants prevent other injured parties...

• Tort Reform: What's in a Name?

  Pete Burns | May 05, 2009 6:04 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The change the reformers want to persuade the American people to enact is to abandon the Constitutional protection of a righ to trial by jury. Rather than allow a group of 12 disinterested citizens...

• Lewis & McAtee, P.C. - Personal Injury Attorneys

  Jon Lewis | May 22, 2008 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As new members to InjuryBoard.com, Lewis & McAtee, P.C. would like to introduce the firm to the organziation and the readership. Our firm was started over forty (40) years ago by Jon Lewis'...

• Lee High School Bus Accident Lawsuits to Move Forward

  Shannon Weidemann | January 03, 2008 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There have been than 24 personal injury lawsuits filed against Laidlaw Transit Inc. over the November 2006 bus accident that left 4 Lee High School students dead. Twelve of the cases now have court dates starting in November of this year. Depositions have been scheduled as well for the driver of the bus and executives at Laidlaw. The collision of the Laidlaw Transit bus and a car driven by a...

• Over-the-counter meds pose dangers to children

  Kimberly French | October 22, 2007 12:23 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Last week the FDA called a joint meeting of its Nonprescription drugs and Pediatric advisory committees to discuss recent death and illness reports allegedly linked to over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medications for infants and children.Due to the reported deaths and illnesses associated with use of OTC cold and cough rememdies, the infant versions of these drugs have already been...

• MRSAs More Common Than Previously Thought

  Courtney Mills | 2007-10-17T08:30:57 | 0 Comments Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A government study to be published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, finds that so-called MRSA 'superbugs' are twice as common as was previously thought. Nearly 19,000 people died in 2005 after becoming infected with drug-resistant bacteria in hospitals and nursing homes.Beginning in 1970, doctor began to observe infections that weren't easily treatable with typical...

• McDonald's Strip Search Victim Wins $6.1 Million in Suit

  Courtney Mills | 2007-10-05T16:25:07 | 0 Comments Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In the McDonald's Strip Search Case, after hearing Louise Ogborn's plaintive testimony in the witness box of how she endured two long hours of sexual torment as a prank caller posing as a cop subjected her to a virtual strip search while hapless McDonald's managers went along, a jury awarded her $6.1 million, far short of the $200 million she was seeking from the fast food giant.Ogborn was a...