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Archive for the ‘Product Liability’ Category
April 4th, 2012
Not many people think of clothes dryers as being particularly dangerous, but according to the National Fire Protection Association, they can be deadly. The last year the advocacy group published a report about dryers was in 2009, and at that time the most up-to-date data came from 2006. In that year alone, there were about
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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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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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November 16th, 2011
After premiering at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the documentary Hot Coffee made its television debut on HBO. The first movie directed by former attorney Susan Saladoff addresses complex problems in the country’s civil justice system including mandatory arbitration, corporate financing of judicial campaigns, caps on damages in civil / personal injury law suits (aka Tort Reform), and (in her words) “the myth of the frivolous lawsuit.”
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