Top Personal Injury Legal Questions From FindLaw Answers
You’ve got questions… we’ve got answers. If you have not yet asked or answered a question in FindLaw’s Answers community, what are you waiting for? This amazing free resource supports a dynamic community of legal consumers and attorneys helping each other out. Simple as that. We see a lot of great questions in our Answers community every day. Here’s a look at some recent questions relating to injuries, accident, and torts from our FindLaw Answers boards: After we broke up, my ex started posting vicious (and false!) rumors about me all over Facebook and Twitter. I’ve asked her to take them down, but she refuses. What do I do? While the rise of social media has been great in promoting discussion and the spread of information …
Powerful Skin Cancer Drug Stops Mesothelioma Tumor Growth – Asbestos.com
Asbestos.comPowerful Skin Cancer Drug Stops Mesothelioma Tumor GrowthAsbestos.comA groundbreaking immunotherapy drug that effectively treats skin cancer stopped tumor growth in 76 percent of patients diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma, a recent study shows. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine …and more »
NSC Supports Oklahoma Lawmakers for Banning Texting While Driving
The organization now says the state should become the first to enact a total cell phone ban.
Whistleblower Protection Laws: A Primer and a Path Ahead
05/06/2015 // San Francisco, CA, United States // KellerGroverWB // Whistleblower law firm Keller Grover // (press release) Whistleblower Protection Laws: A Primer and a Path Ahead When whistleblowers speak out about fraud, they do so to identify and help stop improper behavior. As many frauds have far-ranging impact — whether to taxpayers, a company’s shareholders, or society at large — the good that whistleblowers do can be immeasurable. But those committing the wrong – frequently the whistleblower’s employer – may be tempted to retaliate by firing, demoting, or transferring those who unveil it. One of the most important things whistleblower statutes do, then, is to provide protections for insiders who speak out about improper behaviors. The idea is to encourage whistleblowers to come forward by assuring them that…
Reminder: 50 Shades of Pain Conference on 19th March
Next Thursday, Fieldfisher are proud to be presenting Fifty Shades of Pain – a conference focusing on major issues associated with pain, including pain management and the dilemma of separating physical and psychological pain symptomology. We’d like to take this opportunity to focus on one of the speakers at the conference, Dr Glyn R Towlerton, who will be giving a talk on the Nuts and bolts of treatment options. This talk will focus on the available techniques for treating pain and how they would be expected to be administered. Dr Towlerton trained as an undergraduate in medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He read for a BSc in experimental pathology and was awarded the Award of Merit, before qualifying as a Doctor with distinction in medicine …
A Personal Injury Claim Involving a Patient’s Fall on a Wet Hospital Floor Is Not Within the Scope of MICRA’s One-Year Statute of Limitations
Asma Pouzbaris v. Prime Healthcare Services-Anaheim, LLP – Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District (April 23, 2015) – On June 13, 2010, plaintiff Asma Pouzbaris (“Plaintiff”) was admitted to defendant’s hospital and she was placed in a room…By: Low, Ball & Lynch
Protecting the Elderly
The extent to which our nation’s elderly are become vulnerable inside nursing homes is becoming more and more apparent to the baby boomer generation that now must attend to the needs of their parents. Too often, the primary need is simply to protect an aging parent from abuse and neglect. An interesting article suggests new tools […]
Outdated Stats Used to Support Attacks on Social Security
The Los Angeles Times recently ran a great article debunking a recent Wall Street Journal piece that attacked Social Security recipients. “… Put it all together, and what you get is an op-ed that appears to be based on statistics but whose import is political. Its implicit theme seems to be that disability appeals are suspect by nature, and judges who approve more than the average must be up to no good. As we’ve written before, this is a variation on ancient conservative attacks on the “undeserving poor.” Disability benefits, in truth, are hard to get; only about 40{9c067c25ed205f086ce6001901eb13dfadc688a7aefab9f64e0c55b8c5a55872} of applicants end up with payments, even after all appeals are exhausted. Wait times are long, and the average benefit of $1,165 per …
Drunk Driving Accident Leaves Several in Critical Condition in Pontiac, Michigan
Pictured above: a picture of three of the four injured in the accident Over the weekend, a horrific accident occurred in Pontiac, Michigan that left several people severely and critically injured. The accident happened when Leshia Barnes, a 24-year-old woman from Pontiac, ran a red light and T-boned a Pontiac Montana. She had struck the minivan hard enough to push it back into a nearby, trailing Dodge Magnum. The driver of the Pontiac, a 23-year-old woman, is now in serious condition. Her 3-year-old daughter is unfortunately now on life support and her 16 year-old brother and his 2-year-old son were also critically injured. Barnes herself was also hospitalized with injuries. She has been charged with three counts of operating a motor vehicle…
Law prof who alleged injury from a colleague’s shoulder squeeze is allowed to pursue assault suit
A law professor who alleges he was bullied by colleagues and injured when a professor grabbed and squeezed his shoulder may pursue claims of assault…
Teams Sent to Investigate North Dakota Derailment
Ten rail cars carrying crude oil ignited after the May 6 derailment near Heimdahl, N.D. Firefighters were allowing the last four burning cars to burn out later in the day.
The ‘warning’ nearly says it all about Sen. Virgil Smith’s ‘low-cost automobile insurance’ plan
Fails to mention how much consumers will save; no provision that medical benefits are provided on No Fault basis; no coverage if health or disability is available; can’t sue for medical expenses over $50,000; pain and suffering damages limited to $20,000; loss of right to a jury trial The “warning” nearly says it all about Sen. Virgil Smith (D-Detroit)’s proposed “low-cost automobile insurance” plan. Under Sen. Smith’s “low-cost automobile insurance pilot program,” which he introduced on April 22, 2015, in Senate Bill 288 (co-sponsored by Sen. Joe Hune (R-Fowlerville), auto insurance companies that provide low-cost policies must warn their low-cost insureds about what the policies do and don’t cover. In SB 288, this is called the “Warning” and it warns “low-cost” …