A long-established staple of the tort reform movement has been a push for screening panels that evaluate medical malpractice claims before trial–the goals being to dispose of the case without the need for for a…
In the ever contentious area of TORT REFORM, an Oklahoma senator aims to halve contingency fees (although his state’s current fee allows up to 50% ). Billion-Dollar Verdicts are a thing of the past, according to Bloomberg News . And the nation’s…
New York County Supreme Court Justice Carol R. Edmead has issued a decision in the case of the spin class goofball who wouldn’t shut up when asked and got his just reward. You may remember reading about…
This would be today’s entry in the Dept. of Cases We’re Unlikely to Hear About Again. Courtesy of today’s Gothamist , we learn that a case involving an escaped circus tiger whose presence caused car accidents along the…
Should part of the informed consent discussion include your physician’s telling you that you would get better care elsewhere? That is the subject of a fascinating article in today’s NY Times . Reporter Denise Grady discusses the…
There is a new development in the story of NYC’s Pothole Map, and its continued viability (see my December 19th posting regarding the NY Court of Appeals’ problems with the map). According to the Gothamist’s John Del Signore , Mayor…
Tomorrow morning, January 6, 2009, at 8:00 a.m. at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, there will be a breakfast program on LITIGATING IN THE MEDICAL MALPRACTICE PARTS IN SUPREME COURT . …
Nobody looks forward to a colonoscopy, but based on anecdotal evidence, the preparation is usually worse than the procedure. Consuming large amounts of drugs that expel every last bit of waste from your colon so…
According to yesterday’s City Room blog in the NY Times , the Big Apple Pothole Mapmay be going the way of the dinosaurs. Apparently, the Court of Appeals ruled in two cases yesterday that the map did not provide sufficient…
Welcome to TNYMMLB’s SNOW DAY EDITION . Today, we talk about, what else, snow. What is a landowner’s duty to those who might walk by or through his land when there is a snow storm? …
