Posts tagged trial

• Negotiated Settlement or Trial -- What's in Your Best Interest?

  Jerry H. Trachtman | February 29, 2012 4:30 PM | 0 CommentsMelbourne, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Some TV advertising injury lawyers like to portray themselves as attorneys who will take your injury claim all the way to trial, and they claim that because the insurance company defending your...

• The Big Trial Charade

  Steve Watrel | February 12, 2012 2:11 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Personal injury trial lawyers deal with some curious laws as a result of insurance industry sponsored statutes that stack the deck in their favor. One of these is the so-called “Non-Joinder...

• Corporate America Needs Different Constitutional Rights

  John Hopkins | November 15, 2011 3:36 PM | 3 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Corporations, certain political parties and people who have led a blessed life often speak about tort reform as the “Holy Grail” for reforming everything from our entire economy to...

• Public Citizen, Trial Lawyers and Lady Justice -- Fighting the Good Fight

  Brenda Fulmer | August 30, 2011 4:15 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  As a lawyer who fights every single day on behalf of my clients who have been injured by defective drugs, I am so very thankful for the support that my clients are receiving from Public Citizen....

• Support Your Local Trial Lawyer

  John Hopkins | June 09, 2011 2:39 PM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In the news today, some of us read the very good news that many sport utility vehicles (SUV) are safer because of the incorporation of electronic stability control (ESC) into these vehicles. A...

• The heart of a Trial Lawyer -- Hope is a Renewable Resource

  Laurie Briggs | January 03, 2011 11:20 AM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Last month, I wrote about my heartbreak for Hannah Sames, and for everyone suffering with Giant Axonal Neuropathy, after they lost their quest to win partial funding for a clinical trial in the...

• The Heart of a Trial Lawyer and Continued Hope for Hannah

  Laurie Briggs | December 01, 2010 11:06 AM | 5 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Today, I am a heartbroken trial lawyer. Some people might consider that phrase an oxymoron; I don’t. I am heartbroken today - not because I lost a case or because a judge ruled against my...

• Acreage Lawsuit Blames Cancer Cluster on Defense Contractor

  Joe Saunders | February 11, 2010 11:30 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Toxic Substances
  

  A federal lawsuit has been filed on behalf of five families whose children have contracted cancer in the small Palm Beach County community called the Acreage. The unusually high rate of cancer...

• Tobacco Held Responsible for Placing Profits Ahead of...Everything

  Brenda Fulmer | November 19, 2009 5:16 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Philip Morris suffered yet another blow in the latest post-Engle tobacco trial. A Fort Lauderdale jury rendered a verdict on November 19, 2009, for $300 million against the tobacco manufacturers...

• A Website By Any Other Name

  John Hopkins | August 27, 2009 9:50 AM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I am outraged and I have had just about enough. Before I get started, let me get the preliminaries out of the way: 1) this is most certainly a tirade; and 2) this is entirely my opinion. OK,...