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Tragically, your wife, your husband, your child suffers severe injury or death because someone else did not exercise reasonable care. Your elderly mother dies because a for profit nursing home demonstrating millions in profit fails to provide sufficient staff to care for its residents. A stage collapses and kills several […]

The Florida Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal yesterday made by RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. following a $28.3 million jury verdict in 2009.   The court upheld the verdict in a one-page order, denied jurisdiction, and noted, “no motion for rehearing will be entertained by the Court.”  RJ Reynolds had […]

Suppose I am a physician and as a part of my practice I want to know whether my patients own guns and whether they properly secure their guns. Suppose I, too, own guns and suppose that as a result of poor gun security someone in my family was tragically shot […]

What was Bayer thinking when they came out with the birth control pill Yaz? Based on another study, this one published in the British Medical Journal, demonstrates that the key ingredient in Yaz (also in Yasmin and Ocella) causes a six times increase for the incidence of clots in users. […]

It is disappointing when otherwise intelligent, insightful people simply choose to ignore facts and fail to protect the very people they have sworn to serve. It is no secret that many industry-wed lawmakers have been working for a long time to place damage caps on injuries caused by the negligence […]

I propose we overhaul the criminal justice system in the United States. We can save billions, possibly trillions, of dollars by simply instituting a new way of handling the criminal process: YOU are now presumed guilty of any crime with which you are charged until YOU prove yourself innocent. In […]

What lawsuits consume the very most resources in our court system? Lawsuits filed by injured people? Nope. Lawsuits filed by corporations suing corporations? Yep! By far, excluding divorce, we tax payers pay out more to support the court system’s time in handling one corporation suing another than any other type […]

On November 12, 2008, a Dillard High School student shot and killed Amanda G. Collette outside a classroom. The student, Teah Wimberly, entered the school with a loaded handgun in her backpack. Wimberly informed a fellow student that she intended to harm Collette. The fellow student in turn informed a […]

First, let me start with a disclaimer of sorts. I admire people who have professions I wish I had; writers, for example. I admire someone who can combine words on a page and make me think or help me escape. I thought, though, that if you chose to write non-fiction […]

There is certainly no shortage of tort reform crusaders who have, in their private lives, sought the assistance of trial lawyers to bring exactly the type of lawsuits that they decry in public: then-Gov. George W. Bush filing suit over a minor fender-bender involving one of his daughters in which […]