Two days ago, a Colorado jury awarded 11.5 million in a lawsuit against Riddell and several high school coaches and administrators over a child's brain injuries incurred as a result of…
For a state that has historically eschewed federal government “interference” in how it manages its affairs, Alabama has invited federal officials to protect its citizens….
The devil is in the details, or so they say. For corporate defendants there is a nasty little IRS demon lurking in President Obama’s budget proposal. The change concerns how punitive…
On Monday, a Los Angeles jury awarded a doctor $3,800,000 in compensatory damages after it found that Anthem Blue Cross shut him out of its network for standing up for his patients: The…
Indemnification is not a simple legal concept, and is one which some lawyers and most non-lawyers struggle to grasp. Admittedly, I regularly confused indemnification and subrogation as a law…
In popular culture the gold-standard simile for a nuclear catastrophe is “Chernobyl.” But is the nuclear disaster at Fukushima a worse event (at least from an American…
In a detailed and well documented article http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave.asp, Snopes confirms that water boiled in a microwave oven can suddenly “explode.” The incident…
I was born in Indiana, my father played high school basketball, I played high school basketball, my favorite college basketball coach growing up was Bob Knight, and my two favorite college…
Over the last year, our office has represented more and more individuals that have either been written out of their parents' wills or people who have received the lion share of the…
I am dictating this while sitting in the hospital visiting my neighbor. His wife, “Sue”, is in a room dying. These are sad and difficult times. We all have been through…
You know it as OSHA. It's the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a government agency created by President Nixon to oversee health issues in the workplace. A recent New York Times…
It’s time for a brief post-mortem on the events leading to the passage of the Monsanto Protection Act (MPA). Now that President Obama has signed the legislation which included the MPA…