Miscellaneous

• Sandusky nursing home abuse causes personal injury to elderly patient

  Anneke Kurt | January 25, 2008 9:49 AM | 0 CommentsSandusky, OH

  A former nursing home employee was recently arrested after allegations of patient abuse at a local Sandusky elderly care center, bringing attention to a problem that is growing at the same rate as the number of baby boomers in America. The questions surrounding the alleged Sandusky nursing home abuse include whether or not the accused was acting under the scope of his employment when the nursing...

• Who Sets the Speed Limits and Why

  Diego Madrigal | January 25, 2008 3:14 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Every driver has complained about speed limits at one time or another. But who determines those speed limits and how? Speed limits are determined by using the "85 percentile" method. In this method, traffic engineers set the speed limit based on the speed that 85% of drivers would travel at when there is no speed limit. For example, if 85% of vehicles on a residential road with no current...

• Requested Allstate Files Could Show Bad Faith

  Chrissie Cole | January 25, 2008 1:14 AM | 0 CommentsCincinnati, OH

  Secret Allstate documents - coined the "McKinsey documents" - allegedly show how the company has intentionally made low-ball claim offers to its customers for years, netting Allstate billions of dollars. But the McKinsey documents have yet to be seen. These documents could be potentially devastating to them in insurance bad faith litigation.Trial lawyers who have previously sued Allstate have...

• Two Companies to pay $407 million for Mistakes in Big Dig Project

  Linda Snyder | January 24, 2008 11:43 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  On Wednesday, January 23rd, two companies that managed and designed the Big Dig project in Boston, MA, will have to pay $407 million to the state and federal governments due to leaky tunnels and a fatal ceiling collapse which killed a woman who was driving through a tunnel to Logan International Airport.The two companies, Bechtel Infrastructure Corporation and Parsons Brinckerhoff acknowledged...

• State of Florida Suspends Allstate's Insurance License

  Staff Writer | January 23, 2008 6:05 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The state of Florida is in a big fight with Allstate right now, and Allstate is not cooperating, refusing to turn over subpoena ordered internal documents (particularly something known as "The McKinsey Report") which demonstrates a systematic denial of claims - read the story of Allstate's potential bad faith actions in Florida.

• Chief Justice Cliff Taylor poorly regarded by Michigan legal community

  Devon Glass | January 23, 2008 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  According to a poll of attorneys who have practiced before the Michigan Supreme Court in the past six years, Justice Cliff Taylor is second to last in terms of overall performance. For a more thorough analysis of the study that was conducted by Michigan Lawyers Weekly, click here. This will come to no surprise to anyone who has followed decisions coming out of the Michigan Supreme Court since...

• Hospital Accused In Sending Deceased Infant to Dirty Laundry Rather Than Morgue

  Amy Rothschild | January 23, 2008 2:13 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  On July 8, Kourtney McGee of Cleburne was in her second trimester when she went to Huguley Memorial Medical Center of Fort Worth because she was bleeding. She gave birth prematurely to Jacob Dwayne Robinson, who did not survive. Hospital staff told Ms. McGee, the mother, and Milburn "Pete" Robinson, the father, that their child's body would be taken to the morgue.When the funeral director...

• Allstate Allowed to Write Policies in Florida Again

  Shannon Weidemann | January 23, 2008 10:58 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  Last week Allstate was ordered by the Florida state insurance commissioner to stop writing insurance policies after their refusal to answer state subpeonas. The subpeonas were issued in an investigation into why Allstate wanted to raise their rates by 41.9 percent. Then on Friday the Court of Appeals issued an injuction allowing Allstate to write insurance policies again. Before the ruling,...

• Supreme Court Justice Cliff Taylor Posts Failing Grades

  Tim Smith | January 23, 2008 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsTraverse City, MI

  Anyone who has ever looked for a mechanic to fix their car or perhaps a doctor to treat a family member, they have often asked friends and acquaintances as to their experiences with a particular auto body shop or physician. If the mechanic or doctor has received good reviews, more often than not, you end up using that mechanic or doctor to fix your particular problems. Recently, the state wide...

• Important Healthcare Advice to Prevent Medical Errors(2)

  Staff Writer | January 23, 2008 9:24 AM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  There are an estimated 44,000 to 98,000 people that die in U.S. hospitals each year as a result of medical errors. Medical errors are one of the Nation's foremost reasons of death along with car accidents, breast cancer and AIDS.Medical errors can happen anywhere such as in hospitals, clinics, outpatient surgery centers, doctors' offices, and nursing homes. Such errors occur when something that...