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Archive for the ‘Personal Injury’ Category
May 9th, 2012
On the topic of social media, this blog has already covered the judicial precedents being set in the state of Pennsylvania with regard to insurance companies probing plaintiffs’ Facebook profiles. As judges become more familiar with the sensitive nature of an individual’s social media profile page, some courts have ruled in favor of protecting the
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March 7th, 2012
Spina bifida is a very serious developmental disorder in which a child’s neural tube (the spinal cord and its surrounding tissue) does not close completely. For this reason, it is often known as an NTD, or neural tube disorder. Other disorders that fall under this classification are anencephaly and encephaloceles. The neural tube is the structure
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February 29th, 2012
As a follow up to our original blog series focused on the movie Hot Coffee, Feldman Shepherd personal injury attorney Royce W. Smith shared his insights about the movie and its larger message with WDAS-FM radio show host Patty Jackson. During the interview, Smith echoed the sentiments of Feldman Shepherd’s Personal Injury – The Myth
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February 21st, 2012
As we have written about before on this blog, rising medical costs are often attributed to increases in doctors’ malpractice insurance premiums due to so-called “frivolous” litigation. This is certainly what many in the media and in politics will have you believe because it squarely places the blame on one group of people (trial lawyers) and
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February 1st, 2012
As Facebook encroaches more and more into our daily lives, it was only a matter of time before judges would begin taking it into account when making legal decisions. As reported recently by The Legal Intelligencer, a local judge has just weighed-in with his opinion on the issue of whether or not to allow defendants
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January 4th, 2012
The American Association for Justice (AAJ) recently published a short pamphlet catchily titled Do As I Say, Not As I Sue, an attack on the hypocrisy of the United States Chamber of Commerce, that shadowy pro-corporate lobbying group mentioned a few posts ago in reference to the documentary Hot Coffee. Despite its official-sounding name, the Chamber has nothing to do with the United States government. Having said that, the Chamber still exerts serious influence on campaigns and legislation through its lobbying.
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December 15th, 2011
The international weekly newspaper “The Economist” published an article in its September 29, 2011 issue about the judicial branch of the government, calling it “the feeblest branch,” due to the lack of funding and public and media attention it receives relative to legislators and executives. This is a serious threat to the average person’s ability
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December 7th, 2011
As an addition to the tort reform legislation passed in Texas in 2003, the state’s government is now in the process of implementing a “loser pays” law, which is one of the most contentious recent developments to fall under the umbrella of tort reform. At first glance, a “loser pays” system may appear reasonable, but upon closer inspection it is anything but.
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November 30th, 2011
There are many excellent resources available online that discuss the Hot Coffee case and how it relates to Tort Reform in personal injury cases. Here are just a few that we recommend:
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