Posts tagged tort reform

• Trial Lawyers Helping Reduce Health Care Costs

  Jon Lewis | January 06, 2012 2:32 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As we all do, we were looking over our 2011 financial picture last year. It is always surprising to me to look at some of the categories which we follow. One caught my eye in particular this...

• Hey Stossel - Should Tort Reform Apply Here?

  Pete Mackey | June 17, 2011 2:33 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The editor and chief wack-job of the World News Daily, Joseph Farrah, is about to sue Esquire over a parody that the magazine did recently announcing that he was recalling the latest WND published...

• John Stossel Is A Big Fat Liar

  Pete Mackey | June 17, 2011 8:42 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In the book of Stossel, there are two things most revered - John and Stossel. He does not care if he gets it right. He does not care if his story offends. Correction - he wants it to offend. Liittle...

• Rick Santorum - Just another Hypocrite

  Jon Lewis | June 12, 2011 12:16 PM | 3 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It is just amazing. When will people wake up? At the YMCA in Mountain Brook this morning, I was working out on one of my favorite elliptical machines, and Meet the Press came on the TV. David...

• Pretextual Reasons for Limiting Jury Awards

  Pete Burns | March 16, 2011 11:27 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Our civil justice system provides vital protection for all segments of society but the system is vulnerable because those who oppose the power of juries are a tight knit group of insurance companies...

• The Ultimate Tort Reform

  Jon Lewis | March 02, 2011 10:14 AM | 1 CommentBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I was meeting with a client yesterday, and she made a comment that an incredible amount of clients have made over the years: I am really not the type of person to sue. What is that type of person?...

• Medical malpractice reform again

  Danny Feldman | January 18, 2011 12:13 PM | 6 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I do not hande medical malpractice cases for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that they are almost impossible to win, at least in Alabama, and that they are ridiculously expensive to...

• Why True Conservatives Know That Tort Reform Is Anything But Conservative

  Pete Mackey | November 29, 2010 8:06 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  You retired from the Fortune 500 company (that did you well over the years) after deciding that you still had some productive years left and did not want to let the dream owning your own business...

• I hate losing when we lose, but I really hate losing when we win!!!!!

  Greg Cusimano | September 09, 2010 12:33 PM | 2 CommentsGadsden, AL Category: Toxic Substances
  

  Lawyers who represent individuals are criticized no matter what! September 11 was a beautiful day in New York. It was a day that created thousands of heroes. The rest of us wanted to help! Members...

• Do We Even Know What Tort Reform Is?

  Pete Mackey | March 07, 2010 10:38 AM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It is rare that I discuss tort reform with someone without getting a reaction and an opinion - either pro or con. What I recently realized is that in raising the issue, I have defined it in that...