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• Jury Should Not Have Been Allowed to Reduce Verdict

  Ben Glass | April 24, 2006 9:48 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A Suffolk jury should not have been told that it could reduce a medical malpractice victim's verdict because of his choice of which hospital to go to following a nurse's bad medical advice, according to the Supreme Court of Virginia. In the lawsuit, Lawrence J. Monahan sought recovery from Obici Medical Management Services, Inc. for its nurse's bad advice following signs and symptoms of an...

• No Recovery When Dog Injured in Accident

  Ben Glass | April 23, 2006 9:42 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The Supreme Court of Virginia has again ruled that a car accident victim could not recover her her emotional distress arising out of injuries to her pet dog after both were injured in an car accident.The case is Vladimir Kondaurov v. Eve Kerdasha.Kerdasha contended that she could recover damages for all the "injurious consequences" she suffered which naturally resulted from the accident. Her...

• Doctors' Lawyers Want Web Site Shut Down

  Ben Glass | April 20, 2006 4:49 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  I could not have made this story up!. My friend, New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Gerry Oginski has a terrific consumer oriented medical malpractice website. He, like I, use our web site to fight our little battle agains the MILLIONS of dollars spent by the insurance industry to get mis-information out there about insurance claims, medical malpractice lawsuits and the like. His website is...

• Wrong Site Surgeries On the Rise!

  Ben Glass | April 18, 2006 4:23 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  USA today is reporting a stunning statistic. Despite years of claims involving "wrong side" surgeries and all of the efforts that have (supposedly) gone into hospital procedure changes that would eliminate the risk that once you go to sleep the doctor operates on the correct body part, the number of medical mistakes is rising."It's getting worse," says Dennis O'Leary, who heads the non-profit...

• Insurance Company Tricks

  Ben Glass | April 17, 2006 4:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Three recent encounters with potential new clients show that the automobile insurance companies are still up to their old tricks. While big business and many in government continually try to demonize trial lawyers the insurance companies will stop at nothing to rip people off. Make no mistake about it, big business and the giant insurance companies want to make sure that you go into the...

• Jurors Sometimes Ask

  Ben Glass | April 02, 2006 6:36 AM | 2 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Here is a question we sometimes here from juries:I was on a medical malpractice jury recently. Although we wanted to find for the plaintiff we were afraid that our verdict would destroy the doctor financially. His wife was sitting in the courtroom during closing arguments and we really felt sorry for them. Will a doctor be destroyed by a medical malpractice verdict?We often see the doctor's...

• A Block to Valid Malpractice Claims in Texas

  Ben Glass | April 01, 2006 4:04 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  My friend, Texas personal injury lawyer, Bob Kraft has updated everyone at his blog on the effects of the drastic tort reform in Texas. It's no surprise that in an effort to weed out "frivolous" claims they've thrown out the bathwater with the baby. Now, even meritorious claims aren't being filed since the Republican legislature took it upon themselves to virtually immunize bad doctors. Every...

• Secret Malpractice Settlements

  Ben Glass | April 01, 2006 6:32 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Whenever you see see doctors pushing for "malpractice reform" or "tort reform" you should call your legislature and ask her to ask this question when the doctors come calling:Doctor, before we sit down to discuss what it is you want me to do for you, will you release the claim information on every claim you have paid and will you encourage your colleagues to do the same?You see, the doctors...