Miscellaneous

• States Should Help Victims of Child Molestation to Exercise Rights & Seek Justice

  Andrew Cochran | March 03, 2011 2:11 PM | 3 CommentsVoices

  My representative in the Virginia House of Delegates, Rep. Dave Albo, sent his constitutents a letter recently with some interesting news. He had been a guardian ad litem for abused and neglected...

• Patients Die in Waiting Rooms

  Beth Janicek | February 17, 2011 6:36 PM | 3 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  The San Antonio Express News recently reported that a man spent more than 16 hours in the waiting room of University Hospital before dying of unknown causes. According to another patient in the...

• Oklahoma Republicans Show True Colors: Anti-Justice Business Tools

  William Eadie | February 11, 2011 3:52 PM | 3 CommentsCleveland, OH

  “Malpractice Entitlements” are on their way to hitting Oklahomans soon, making doctors a “special class,” entitled to commit malpractice without paying for their mistakes....

• Tort Reform Is a Serious Subject For Only Honest People

  John Hopkins | January 31, 2011 2:24 PM | 3 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Let me say from the outset that I am probably a Democrat. I am, at least, fiscally conservative and socially liberal. Those two terms are not mutually exclusive, but you are probably confident to...

• The Chicago Tribune & NY Times Bash Lawsuit Funding: In Bed With Big Insurance? Part II: The Times

  Mark Bello | January 20, 2011 9:29 AM | 3 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI

  Recently, in Part I of this post, we reported on the Chicago Tribunes's negative kill the bill editorial about legislation designed to regulate lawsuit funding in Illinois. On the heels of the...

• Oklahoma Republican Party at War - Can Constitutional Conservatives Save our Right to a Jury?

  Jeremy Thurman | December 07, 2010 10:29 PM | 3 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  There is a battle brewing for control of the Oklahoma Republican Party. On one side is big business who wants its ubiquitous goals of tort, workers compensation and special tax breaks to better its...

• Big Tobacco -- Up In Smoke

  James W. Gustafson, Jr. | November 16, 2010 2:39 PM | 3 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  According to Courtroom View Network who recorded the trial: The law firm Searcy Denney put a dramatic end to Tobacco's eight-case winning streak today by reeling in an $80 million verdict in Webb...

• Bank Overdraft Fees—Consumers Fighting Back

  William Eadie | September 30, 2010 6:00 PM | 3 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Most people have been charged a bank fee at some point or other, and when it comes to a bank overdraft fee, you can get sticker shock at the $30-40 per overdraft. Add multiple overdraft charges...

• 5,000 Mayo Clinic and St. Luke’s Patients at Risk for Hepatitis C from Hospital Employee

  Paul Napoli | September 25, 2010 5:09 AM | 3 CommentsNew York City, NY

  September 24, 2010 The Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL is sending warning letters to 5,000 patients potentially exposed to Hepatitis C from a hospital worker who injected himself with painkillers...

• Service Of Process – Out Of Place In A Modern World

  Michael Myers | August 09, 2010 8:22 PM | 3 CommentsSeattle, WA

  There are two parts to commencing a lawsuit in the State of Washington: 1. Filing a summons and complaint with the Clerk of the Court; and 2. Serving process on the defendant. Service of process...