Posts tagged tort reform

• Revised Verizon Class Action Settlement Will Pay Maryland Customers $16.8 Million Instead of $156,000

  Wayne Parsons | June 18, 2006 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (TLPJ), a leading consumer advocacy attorneys organization, forces changes to an anti-consumer class action against Verizon; ustomers to be paid soon. the story below is a report from Trial lawyers for Public Justice. I am the state of hawaii coordinator for TLPJ. Consumers must protect the right to file class action lawsuits. Class actions are the only effective...

• People's Law School Program

  Wayne Parsons | April 27, 2006 9:19 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The People's Law School (PLS) program provides everyone in the community with access to real lawyers who can talk about practical topics and answer questions about subjects that are important in citizens' lives. In Hawaii the People's law School program was begun in 1987 by Wayne Parsons through the Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii organizationA family law lawyer might talk about what actually happens...

• Don't Be Fooled By Insurance Lobbyists

  Wayne Parsons | April 25, 2006 9:49 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Medical Malpractice legislation is scheduled to come before the United States Senate. Some Members of Congress want to establish limits on the rights of victims in order to protect powerful special interests and corporations intent on protecting their bottom line - no matter the consequence. Urge your Senators to protect a victim's right to hold wrongdoers responsible for their actions. These...

• US Chamber of Commerce Twists the Truth

  Wayne Parsons | April 12, 2006 7:33 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The decptive poll by the US Chamber of Commerce misrepresents the quality of the legal systems in variousn states and promotes the agenda of huge corporations and their CEO's to turn the public against the courts and judicial independence.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has released an updated "study" that supposedly ranks the best and worst state legal systems in America. But as with past...