In this Issue: Precedent Setting Securities and Accounting Negligence Case is Affirmed Duke Study Vindicates Jury Awards Lawsuits Force Drug Recall
Yearly Archives: 2017
In this Issue: Hospital Tragedy Results in Fire Code Revisions Breast Implant Cases Update Prudential Securities Reaches Settlement with SEC
Fleets of autonomous cars are navigating U.S. highways and byways every day. Once an unfathomable dream, as most technology has been throughout history, driverless vehicles with programmed minds of their own have arrived. The idea of learning, thinking machines is both exciting and concerning. It is a feat of engineering […]
In this Issue: Favorable Verdict In Tampa Despite Bad Law Silicone Gel Breast Implant Settlement Imminent
Attorney Chris Searcy has been appointed to serve on the Federal Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC) for the Southern District Conference. Members of this JNC recruit, interview and recommend candidates for federal district court judgeships.
Operating on the wrong extremity. Leaving a piece of equipment inside a patient after surgery. Failing to diagnose an illness. All are nightmare situations for a patient. But all are among the most-common types of medical negligence taking place in America today. “Medical malpractice occurs when a health care professional […]
In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate […]
Who is to blame for a “document dump” – a “snow storm” – an obfuscation of information? Sometimes its intentional and sometimes it is not. Everyone – both plaintiff and defendant; both teams of lawyers. Requesters are imprecise and can be over reaching. Producers are often inflexible and unreasonable. What […]
Opioids put nearly 1.3 million people in the hospital in one year. Read this article with horror. Yet another example of the devastating effects of Fentanyl and other opiate abuse in our country. We have had a front row seat to this epidemic in Palm Beach County where our hospitals, […]
Dealing with an aging parent brings about an emotional anguish that is as sad as it is stressful. Depending on the level of care a loved one requires – does he or she need help doing the laundry and preparing a meal or with more-involved tasks such as bathing and […]