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Dissecting Aorta: Timely treatment or death and malpractice

Posted on January 11, 2009
There are about 2,000 cases of aortic dissection in the United States each year. With timely treatment the survival rate is approximately 85%. Without treatment 25% of patients die in the first 24 hours, 50% die within the first week, 75% the first month and a whopping 90% the first year...

Judge To Michigan Prison System - Settle These Lawsuits

Posted on January 09, 2009
In his continuing report, Jeff Seidel of the Detroit Free Press reports that County Judge Timothy Connors has ordered mediation in the lawsuits by female inmates alleging sexual assaults by prison guards. The lawyers for the state, however, believe that any efforts to settle will be a waste of time until all appeals, which the state thinks that they can win, are exhausted...

Nursing Home Arbitration Bill

Posted on January 08, 2009
With a new administration ready to be sworn in and some significant changes in Congress there is real optimism that the S. Bill 2838, Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act may actually pass this year. The Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act provides that a pre-dispute arbitration agreement between a long-term care facility and a resident (or anyone acting on the resident's behalf) shall not be valid or specifically enforceable...

The Problem With Fly Ash Sludge - The Other Shoe Drops

Posted on January 08, 2009
Prior to the fly ash sludge holding pond rupturing at the Kingston, Tn. steam plant on December 22, not many people even knew what fly ash was. In the aftermath of that disaster, news surfaced that the Tennessee Valley Authority's inspectors had reported as early as March of last year that the same problem existed, and was ignored, at a similar plant in Alabama...

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My New House Is A Lemon - Will You Take My Case?

Posted on January 08, 2009
You have been in your brand new house for four months. It was kind of scary draining your savings account for the down payment and your new monthly payment is $350 more than the rent you were paying for your apartment. But now that you are in, life is good ...

Michigan Prison Faces Sex Assault Law Suits

Posted on January 07, 2009
The Michigan prison system may find that protecting female inmates from sexual assaults by guards is not just the morally right thing to do, but that it makes business sense, as well. In the first of a five part series, Jeff Seidel of the Detroit Free Press reports that inmate rights groups have been reporting sexual assaults for years, to no avail...

Will You Take My Case?

Posted on January 07, 2009
Nobody comes in to our offices to tell us what a great day they have had. We don't do adoptions, we represent folks who have suffered severe personal or financial injuries. Unfortunately, we have to turn down many more of those cases than we take. Over the next few weeks, we will explain how we evaluate different kinds of cases...

Feds Give State Veterans' Home Failing Grades

Posted on January 06, 2009
The William F. Green State Veterans Home in Bay Minette, Alabama was severely critcized in a report by Federal inspectors released last month. The inspection, conducted in February of 2008, found that "deficiencies have contributed to the untimely deaths of ...

Fire Alarms

Posted on January 06, 2009
Deaths from fires and burns are the fifth most common cause of unintentional injury and deaths in the United States (CDC 2005) and the third leading cause of fatal home injury (Runyan 2004). In nearly 75% of the cases where a fire fatality occurred there was either no fire alarm present or it malfunctioned...

The Ledbetter Decision may not be Long for this World

Posted on January 06, 2009
The Democrats controlling Congress are looking to overturn the Supreme Court's recent decision which limited worker's discrimination claims by providing a restrictive statute of limitations. The Court ruled that Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at the Goodyear tire plant in Gadsden, Al...

The People's Law School Returns

Posted on January 05, 2009
A 10 week course to better explain to lay people how the legal system works - the People's Law School - returns January 26 in Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville's Mayor, Tommy Battle, explains how the school works: "The topics include practical information a citizen needs to know in the event he or she buys a house, gets arrested, goes bankrupt, gets divorced, applies for Social Security, gets hurt on the job, has tax problems or has a problem with a will or an estate," Brinkley said...

Life Insurance Companies Need Your Help

Posted on January 05, 2009
Consumer groups are opposing the insurance industry's effort to lower reserve requirements. The Consumer Federation of America and the Center for Economic Justice are up in arms - they believe that doing so would increase the risk that an insurer would not be able to pay its annuities and life insurance claims as they come due...

Bicycle safety tips....

Posted on January 04, 2009
With Christmas bringing new bicycles to both kids and parents, the importance of bicycle safety should be stressed to all new cyclists. Unfortunately, this past weekend a South Alabama resident was riding his bicycle and was struck by a car, which caused his death...

TVA - Business Before Regulations

Posted on January 04, 2009
Two weeks after the area around the Kingston, Tn. steam plant was inundated with fly ash sludge after a holding pond ruptured, news has surfaced a TVA Inspector General had issued a report in March of 2008 finding that the agency managers put business interests before regulatory compliance at a similar plant in Alabama...

Damage from the Madoff Scandal Grows

Posted on January 02, 2009
By now, if you do not know who Bernie Madoff is, chances are you have been hibernating in a cave for the winter. This self professed financial scammer has been front page news world wide for his purported $50,000,000,000 fraud. The list of investors who were conned by Madoff include largely sophisticated, well heeled investors...

Have a Happy but Safe New Years.....

Posted on January 01, 2009
I would like to wish everyone a Happy, but Safe New Years. I know that saying is cliche, and everyone hears these same words every year around this time, but even if you are being safe, you still need to be aware of your surroundings and keep an eye on your children as well...

Homeowners Sue TVA for Environmental Spill

Posted on January 01, 2009
Residents of a subdivision in Tennessee located near the Kingston, Tn. Power Plant filed a lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority seeking $165,000,000 in damages caused by the rupture of a coal ash retention pond. In the lawsuit, the homeowners claim that more than one billion gallons of coal ash sludge spilled over 300 acres of property and polluted two rivers...

It is Time to Look for Dangerous Toys

Posted on December 31, 2008
Remember Dan Akroyd as Irving Mainway hawking "safe toys" such as "Bag O' Glass," "Doggy Dentist" and "Mr. Skin-Grafter" on Saturday Night Live? The joke was, nobody would sell toys that were as dangerous as those, right? Wrong...

Rear-facing carseats

Posted on December 31, 2008
Rear-facing carseats are substantially safer than front-facing car seats for children up to 3 to 4 years old. The following youtube video clip is 3 minutes and 28 seconds long. It graphically demonstrates the difference between the movements of a child’s head when in a rear-facing carseat versus a front facing carseat...

How a poor economy can affect people not just in the pocketbook....

Posted on December 30, 2008
As everyone knows and has felt, the current economy is effecting how people shop, eat, and live their day to day life. Some people think it is only the middle and lower class that are cutting costs, and trying to save every penny, well those people are wrong...

What Are Family Values?

Posted on November 07, 2008
The red states in the Southeast and parts of the West (I guess that is just about all of them) lead the country in poverty levels and divorce, infant mortality, obesity and teen pregnancy rates. The leadership in these states should be doing something about these very real problems...

eVoting: It could be worse...it's worse.

Posted on November 03, 2008
Recording votes electronically is a bad idea. I take that back. It's a horrible, no good, awfully rotten idea. And there is no way to make it better. Unlike a physical record, altered data in electronic forms can be indistinguishable from unaltered information...

Placebo Prescribing: a suprisingly common lie and its risk

Posted on October 24, 2008
National Public Radio reported today that prescription of placebos by American doctors may be a common practice. Placebos are a form of off label use where the medicine is not shown to treat a patient's diagnosed ailment, but the influence on the particular patient is hoped to be positive--sometimes from nothing more than positive thinking and expectations...

Internet con artists seek to prey on uneasy consumers amid financial crisis

Posted on October 12, 2008
In response to the financial crisis the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has temporarily raised its coverage on bank and credit union accounts to $250,000. This attempt to buttress consumer confidence was enabled by a provision of federal bailout legislation that authorizes the FDIC to borrow from the treasury in the event of losses exceeding the old limit of $100,000...

Off Label Uses of Prescription Drugs

Posted on October 09, 2008
Off label use is a drug is prescribed for a purpose, at a dose, or through a route of administration that has not been approved by the FDA. After clinical testing the FDA approves drugs for specific conditions and in specified dosages. The FDA does not control the practice of medicine...

Durogesic Patch - Informed Consent

Posted on October 05, 2008
We represent a lady who has experienced brain damage as the result of inappropriate prescription of a Durogesic Patch. She had one day surgery and was sent home wearing a Durogesic Patch. The manufacturer’s warns against using the Durogesic Patch unless the patient is under supervision...

The Need for Greater Protection for US Nursing Home Patients

Posted on August 19, 2008
Many of our nation's elderly have spent their entire lives supporting this county, be it through their service, their investment, their guidance, or any other fathomable form of aid, and yet these individuals are finding themselves at risk of physical, sexual, or mental injury in many of our nation's nursing homes...

Using Technology to Market Your Law Firm

Posted on August 19, 2008
Everyone has undoubtedly witnessed the tremendous rise in the day-to-day use of electronic information devices. Most individuals no longer have the patience to wait even until they get home to Google for information about a subject or business that interests them...

Apology Laws

Posted on August 19, 2008
Surfing the internet a few weekends ago I came across this article from a Dallas based plaintiffs firm discussing new measures state legislatures are taking to curb medical malpractice payouts. The apology laws, as they are being touted, basically state the contention that most med...

What Are Emotional Distress Damages? - Part 1

Posted on June 26, 2008
A friend of mine recently told me that he had read about a jury awarding emotional distress damages in favor of a husband and wife whose home was improperly wired by an electrical contractor and, as a result, burned down after they got out with only the clothes on their back...

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