Pete Burns

Cumberland School of Law, Cum Laude graduate Peter F. Burns practice areas include business litigation will contests, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, and other matters of complex civil litigation.

AHA Advocates substituting good ole boys for juries

The American Hospital Association is advancing a bizarre version of malpractice “reform”. It advocates substituting a local panel of experts appointed by state authorities for juries….

By Pete Burns

/ 21 Oct 2009

CBO Report

The Congressional Budget Office has determined that limiting the rights of malpractice victims would only result in three tenths of one percent savings in medical cost….

By Pete Burns

/ 12 Oct 2009

Health Care Reform

Now that President Obama has focused public attention on the deplorable state of health insurance in America everyone purports to agree that we must change the system. In truth, insurance companies…

By Pete Burns

/ 7 Oct 2009

Replace "Deny & Defend" with "Honesty & Apology"

Tying “Tort Reform” to health insurance reform could benefit both the doctors and the patients. The typical victim of a medical error wants fair compensation not a lawsuit. Most doctors…

By Pete Burns

/ 13 Sep 2009

Executive Responsibility

Let’s hear it for New York federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff who, in presiding over the settlement between the S.E.C. and Bank of America. Judge Rakoff is requiring disclosure of the identity of…

By Pete Burns

/ 24 Aug 2009

Misdiagnosis

Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is yet another anti consumer republican trying to shift the focus from insurance reform by pretending that problems in health care are the result of “junk…

By Pete Burns

/ 17 Aug 2009

When your Health Insurance Policy is Rescinded

Post hoc underwriting is the process the medical insurance companies use to cancel a customer’s policy after the customer develops a serious illness. If the individual develops a condition…

By Pete Burns

/ 2 Aug 2009

Medical Malpractice: Universal health care & shifting the cost of negligence

We have approximately 50 million Americans without health insurance. Health care cost following an accident or illness is the most common cause of bankruptcy in the United States. Cleary this is a…

By Pete Burns

/ 15 Jul 2009

Undue Influence

Many people do not realize that when a beneficiary is active in procuring a will it generally creates a presumption of undue influence. Whether a beneficiary was “active” in procuring…

By Pete Burns

/ 7 Jul 2009

Buyers Beware!

I am arbitrating condominium contracts that should be void under the Inter State Land Sales Full Disclosure Act and the sophisticated buyers are appalled at the terms of the contract they signed. If…

By Pete Burns

/ 28 Jun 2009

Medical reform

We must be alert that the insurance and pharmaceutical industries do not further limit the rights of victims of medical errors to recover fair compensation. No one knows who will be the victim of…

By Pete Burns

/ 22 Jun 2009

The appearance of impropriety

Let’s hear it for Justice Kennedy who led a 5-4 Supreme Court in Caperton v. Massey Coal Co. to hold that a state judge must withdraw when a party in a case has had a significant or…

By Pete Burns

/ 8 Jun 2009