This past week, the United States Supreme Court decided Wyeth v. Levine. The Court upheld a $6.7 million jury award to a musician who lost her arm because of a botched injection of an anti-nausea…
Spring break often means thousands of collage students making their ways from the wintry north down to some place warm. Some stay in the country and hit places like Florida and Texas and other head…
A couple of times a month we will get a new client in that will have had a offer already. Sometimes the offers make sense and all we do is review it and advise the client that it’s about what they…
The Injuryboard blogs have spent a lot of time on the many issues involving pharmaceutical companies. How they were controlling FDA actions, writing their own bills in congress and most recently…
So this morning, we learned that AIG is planning to pay bonuses today with the latest money they received from the bailout. I just don’t get it. Clearly this has not been a well run company. But,…
Every day we read about more jobs being lost across the country. Recent stories suggest that many of these jobs may be gone forever as the economy re-corrects. For the person out of work the issue…
Usually, I find a lot of the rhetoric about what affect each government budget will have to be just talk. We need to balance a number of items and not everyone is going to be happy. Personally, I…
This past week, the 35W compensation fund provided the amounts that individuals who filed for claims against the State would receive. Each party has until April 16 to decide to accept the…
This past week, the 35W compensation panel, made offers to the families of those killed and also to those that were injured. This was a state fund that was created by the legislature of $36.4…
On Tuesday, Maytag recalled 1.6 million refrigerators. An electrical failure in the relay, the component that turns on the refrigerator’s compressor, has caused overheating and serious…
Former Vice President, Walter Mondale, penned an interesting article this past Tuesday concerning the US Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright. This is the case that help that a poor person in…
I don’t smoke. But my dad did a lot. I remember when he would visit a number of years ago and we would sit in the smoking section of a restaurant and nonsmokers would glare at us. They wanted to eat…