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Posted on September 22, 2008
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One Killed and Dozens Injured in Multi-Car Pile Up

Posted on February 10, 2008
Thirty six cars were involved in a multi-car pile up that happened on February 10, at 12:40 P.M., that killed one and injured almost two dozen more. The accident occurred on 390 South near Scottsville Road in Vermont. More than 20 people were taken to local hospitals...

A Big Pay Day for Enron Stockholders' Lawyers

Posted on January 11, 2008
Despite our best efforts to educate the public about the economics of contingent fee law practice, a great many people still believe that lawyer's fees are outrageous. Folks of this ilk will have a field day with the fee being sought by the San Diego law firm that represented the defrauded Enron stockholders...

Actor Angry Over Hospital Error

Posted on January 11, 2008
Film actor Dennis Quaid and his wife have expressed their outrage over the treatment their newborn twins have received at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A report from the California Department of Public Health confirms that the couple's babies each received a dosage of Heparin that was 2,000 times stronger than the prescribed dose...

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Insurance Companies Only Respect a Law Firm That is Prepared to do Battle

Posted on January 04, 2008
Did you ever see the movie "Bravehart?" Early in the film the English and Scots armies are squared off against each other in battle formation. Just when a fight seems inevitable, small negotiating teams from both sides ride out to meet each other. At this tense point, with the hostile armies on the verge of confrontation, the negotiators work out a settlement between the Scots and English kings averting battle...

John Edwards, Taking Heat for Being a Trial Lawyer

Posted on January 04, 2008
Several of the major presidential candidates: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani to name a few are lawyers by training. Thus far I don't recall any of these individuals have been attacked because they are attorneys. However, another candidate John Edwards has been vilified for some time because of his profession...

Steroids are a Danger to the Players as Well as to the Game

Posted on December 14, 2007
With the long awaited release of the Mitchell Report, many baseball fans are weighing in on the way illegal steroid use has changed our national game. One intense area of focus is whether record setting steroid users (most homeruns, etc.) should be considered in a separate category from ballplayers who set records without resorting to performance enhancers.

Slow Down on Winter Roadways

Posted on December 14, 2007
The snows have come early to New England this year. Where I live in Central New Hampshire, there is a possibility we will get another foot of it over the weekend. This is good news for skiers and the local economy but not for motorists. Because as we all know winter storms can make for treacherous driving...

An Accident Can Spoil Your Holidays

Posted on December 07, 2007
Driving during the Christmas season can be rough. Roads are congested with shoppers. Motorists heading home after holiday parties may have had an eggnog or two. The season itself seems to add to some people's stress level.

Remember Our Soldiers and Disabled Veterans During the Holiday Season

Posted on December 07, 2007
During this holiday season it is important to remember our men and women in uniform as well as our disabled veterans. We all realize that the sacrifices they make allow the rest of us to enjoy the Christmas season in safety. In this firm we feel this debt acutely...

Motor Vehicle Accidents and Driver Inattention

Posted on November 27, 2007
Driver inatttention can cause motor vehicle accidents resulting in serious personal injury. Entering limited access highways the wrong way happens more often than expected. In 2002, a van entered Intersate 89 at exit 16 the wrong way, going south in the northbound lanes...

Drunk Driver Kills Teenager

Posted on November 21, 2007
Shawn R. Burritt, 32 from Jericho Vermont appeared in Vermont District Court in Burlington to answer to charges that he drove the wrong way on Interstate 89 in Colchester on Saturday and collided with a vehicle, killing one of its passengers, Nicolas Fournier, 18, of West Swanton...

Justice Clarence Thomas, Seething Black Conservative Hero Tells Us How Bad It Has Been

Posted on October 03, 2007
There have been more than a few voices expressing, in various ways, discomfort, surprise or puzzlement over the tone and substance of the Clarence Thomas media blitz publicizing the Justice's newly published book. A good example: Is Clarence Thomas Playing the Race Card Again? When I watched the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings many moons ago, I was more than a bit surprised to hear him fight back with a claim that the Anita Hill allegations of the hearings were, in his words, a "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks...

Now Isiah Thomas Is In A Hostile Environment

Posted on October 02, 2007
Some years ago I had the delightful experience of a jury note after 2 days of deliberation which asked the judge, "Do we fill out the amount of the damages if we agree the doctor was at fault?" Obviously, the doctor and his defense attorney were having far different feelings...

Drug Companies Interviewing Your Genes For Witnesses Against You

Posted on October 02, 2007
The light bulb has gone on at Big Pharma. This genetic stuff can save our asses, is the new mantra. Locating blame for adverse drug reactions Adverse drug reactions often appear idiosyncratic. Some drugs have powerful effects and everyone experiences the side effects (e...

Throw The Uninsured In Jail!

Posted on September 30, 2007
The solution to the 40 million plus Americans without health insurance may lie in our prison system. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that inmates have a constitutional right to health care. (What a great country!) If we could criminalize failing to have health insurance and (this is important) impose prison sentences instead of handing out probation, we are home free...

Slideshow Of The Decade: Allstate's BluePrint For Fraud

Posted on September 30, 2007
Allstate Insurance Co. has a split personality. Its TV/advertising personality is the Good Hands People. Its internal, claims-processing personality is similar to Mike Tyson's. Fayette case puts Allstate tactics to test In lawsuits in New Orleans and across the country, Allstate Insurance Co...

Our Seething Supreme Court Justice Airs His Tortured Soul

Posted on September 29, 2007
It is frightening to know there is a tortured soul in Washington, D.C., who is likely to influence every aspect of our society for, possibly, four decades while barely containing a seething resentment over events that occurred more than 15 years ago. Clarence Thomas Book Portrays a Tortured Soul Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's new autobiography has just been published...

Give This Man A Jury Of His Peers

Posted on September 29, 2007
In Ohio, a man accused of murder is concerned about getting an impartial jury. I say let the man have a jury of his peers - police officers. Attorneys Thinking About Jury Impartiality In High-Profile Case CANTON- Lawyers considered Friday whether an impartial jury can be found in the northeast Ohio county where a police officer is accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend...

The Elaborate Ritual Improving Medical Care

Posted on September 29, 2007
Over at Bad Science Ben Goldacre discusses the placebo effect. Now as I have said so many times before, the placebo effect is not about a sugar pill, it's about the cultural meaning of a treatment, and our expectations: we know from research that two sugar pills are more effective than one, that a salt water injection is better for pain than a sugar pill, that colour and packaging have a beneficial effect, and so on...

Of Mice And Men In Clinical Trials

Posted on September 28, 2007
Sometimes it's better to be a mouse than a man. Report assails FDA oversight of clinical trials Federal investigator says little done to ensure patient safety WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of people who participate in clinical trials, a federal investigator has found...

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