Yamaha Motor Corp. USA is recalling about 120,000 off-highway recreational vehicles for repairs, after two models were involved in 46 deaths. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says all Rhino 450 and 660 model vehicles need to be repaired to prevent the accidents that resulted in 46 deaths since the units were distributed in fall 2003. [...]
This news item is of interest on two fronts. First the National organization of chambers of commerce has always maintained a hostile position against Personal Injury attorneys, so this position out of Michigan is not a complete surprise. Their campaign agaist the rights of victims has consistently alienated attorneys from local chambers of commerce. The [...]
Personal injury lawyers still cringe when they recall 2004’s eye-catching television ads of doctors walking out of town along the highway, fleeing from high malpractice insurance costs. A congressional study and a national consumer advocacy group found at the time that the health care industry had spent millions of dollars exaggerating the malpractice crisis in [...]
Winchester VA — The financial crisis is bringing more poor people in contact with the courts, and lawyers can’t keep up with the demand. Attorney Anna Hammond of the nonprofit Blue Ridge Legal Services discusses the recent overload in her offices at 119 S. Kent St. in Winchester. “Most people think you get a court-appointed [...]
Personal Injury Law Roundup No. 29 3/20/09 Reform, Legislation, Policy Obama names Dr. Margaret Hamburger, former NYC Health Commissioner, as head of FDA. NY Newsday, Atlanta Journal Constitution, WSJ Oklahoma Bar Association criticizes tort reform proposals now pending before OK Senate. Seattle Times/AP Sen. John Cornyn R-TX sponsored a Republican Senate Conference on “Protecting Main [...]
The summer sun is almost upon the North Carolina and Virginia coast and so is bathing suit season. Many of those battling with obesity and trying to get slimmer have also opted for gastric bypass surgery, also known as stomach stapling, when they have exhausted all other options. Gastric bypass is a procedure where the [...]
A bill that would make it harder to win a medical malpractice lawsuit against an emergency room physician garnered widespread support as it passed in the Utah Senate this morning. Bill co-sponsor Senator John Valentine said the stakeholders interested in the bill came to the table and hashed out some compromises last week, then created [...]
Truman Chafin, majority leader in the West Virginia Senate and a lawyer, helped a Williamson couple win a $2.5 million verdict in a medical malpractice case. Chafin, Letitia Neese Chafin and Louisa, Ky., lawyer Mike Hogan represented Sophia and Darrell Savage. The Savages filed a lawsuit in Lawrence County, Ky. against Three Rivers Medical Center [...]
48 year-old Richard Pickett of Vandercook Lake, Michigan was found guilty for failing to remain at an accident resulting in serious impairment or death. Pickett and his 50 year-old fiancée, Bonnie Lynn Arnett were traveling in Jackson, MI where Pickett lost control of his motorcycle on a ramp. Pickett, 48, testified he did not remember [...]
Some sections of House Bill 1603 amend just a few phrases of law; some sections would create whole new sections of law several pages long. But each section of the bill carried by state Rep. Daniel Sullivan, R-Tulsa, as the main tort reform measure of the session, makes significant changes to Oklahoma law dealing with [...]