Posts tagged personal injury

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Cholesterol Lowering Drugs Top Sellers in U.S. Market

  Courtney Mills | 2007-09-13T09:45:20 | 0 Comments Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to an article published on Reuters today, the cholesterol-lowering drug category of statins, the most popular of which is Lipitor by Pfizer, was responsible for the Lion's share of prescription drug sales in 2004. While cholesterol-lowering drug tended to be the most profitable for drug companies, according to federal estimates, patients spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $9...

• Whose side is your doctor on?

  Pete Burns | 2011-01-22T10:13:53 | 0 Comments 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...

• Lybrel pill that halts periods approved by FDA

  Staff Writer | 2007-05-30T08:00:04 | 0 Comments Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A new birth control pill called Lybrel, which also prevents women from having menstrual periods, received FDA approval last week. The low-dose oral contraceptive has received mixed reviews from skeptical consumers and doctors. While some herald the new drug as a freeing, liberating pill that puts an end to the discomforts of cramps, bloating and the like, others say it is unnatural and may have...

• Drug Companies Pay For FDA Staff Travel

  Tom Methvin | 2006-10-17T14:27:41 | 0 Comments Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Over the years it has become quite apparent that the powerful drug industry has enjoyed tremendous control over the Food and Drug Administration. We now learn that, through an apparent loophole in agency rules, the FDA has allowed its employees to receive more than $1.3 million in sponsored travel since 1999 from groups closely tied to pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Interestingly,...

• Katrina Victims Demand Coverage From Insurers

  Staff Writer | 2006-07-11T14:21:53 | 0 Comments Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A MS couple sued Nationwide Mutual for denying an uninvestigated claim involving damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. In this and thousands of other MS cases, Nationwide has blamed the damage on water and asserts the company has "fully complied with its obligations." The non-jury trial may pioneer future Katrina victims' payouts from other insurers denying similar coverage.

• Confidential Settlements

  Pete Burns | 2009-06-01T15:33:19 | 0 Comments 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 | 2009-05-05T18:04:50 | 0 Comments 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...