As we have discussed before, the federal Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure have been entertaining comments on new rule revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Over 600 comments to the proposed revisions have been filed so far; many by lawyers who generally represent plaintiffs. Why largely […]
Category: Corporate Fraud
In Ontario, Canada, Big Tobacco is currently under attack. Ontario claims that, among other things, Big Tobacco misrepresented the dangers of smoking and the addictiveness of nicotine to the public for decades. Ontario also claims that Big Tobacco caused or contributed to an additional $50 billion in health care costs. […]
A lawsuit is filed…and that is often when the real work begins for all the parties involved. In some cases, neither the plaintiff nor the defendant has all the proof; documents, data and other types of evidence; they need to fully prove their respective cases. So, each party is allowed […]
Do cigarette manufacturers know their customers, or do cigarette manufacturers know their customers? A recent article in the New York Times found that “low-income smokers in New York spend 25% of their income on cigarettes.” While statistics like this might come as a surprise to regular folks like you and […]
Having been in the legal and insurance industry for 45 years now, I have reasonably good insight on what really does go on, but I can simply not help being surprised and disturbed by how far corporate America is willing to go. Even when dealing with the health, life and […]
Kids continue to be targets of tobacco manufacturers. They have been from the very beginning and as tobacco company sales fall, the tobacco industry has demonstrated a willingness to pull out all the stops to maintain their beginner smoking programs. In 2009, as part of President Obama’s comprehensive Family Smoking […]
It is all about research and publishing. That is the pressure supposedly exerted on academics, scientists and some physicians – “publish or perish”. Scientific research is no different than any other form of research from the perspective of “garbage in garbage out”. These days most of us do some form […]
Our law firm has tried eight trials in a row to successful plaintiffs’ verdicts; involving what has become known as the “Engle Progeny Cases”. These cases arise from the “Engle” case tried two decades ago in which juries heard 12 months of evidence and made a series of findings about […]
Big Tobacco has recently agreed to pay over $6 million to settle claims with the US Department of Justice. A summary of the conduct causing the $6 million payment? US district Court Judge Gladys Kessler, after hearing mountains of evidence, says this about the tobacco corporations: They lied. They misrepresented […]
It is a part of the Florida Constitution. It seemed fair to patients. With hospitals and doctors claiming the medical negligence problem was over blown, Florida Section 25, “Patients’ right to know about adverse medical incidents”, seemed like a common sense and fair law. Read it. It is not very […]
