Legal

The Legal section covers court rulings, statutory changes, liability trends, and key developments in Alabama and federal law that shape personal-injury claims. We explain how case law and regulation affect claims strategy, statutes of limitations, damages, and the rights of injured people pursuing justice.

Were Steve Jobs and George Orwell right after all?

I still remember being an 8 year old kid and watching the Super Bowl between the Redskins and the Raiders and viewing a commercial that I did not understand, though I thought was pretty cool. Of…

By Troy Schwant

/ 31 Jul 2012

Welcome News For Those Considering A Nursing Home

Recently the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services opened a new web site to help people evaluate nursing homes. The new web site is called Nursing Homes Compared….

By Billy Cunningham

/ 30 Jul 2012

A Voice for the Voiceless

As more and more details come forth about the exposure so many adults had to the horrid acts of Jerry Sandusky I find myself feeling sickened, appalled, and to be honest, very judgmental. I would…

By Troy Schwant

/ 26 Jul 2012

Is your phone company protecting your bill from bogus charges?

Last week one of the attorneys in my office told me that he had found two $9.99 charges on his phone bill from some company he had never used. After some minimal digging he learned that these…

By Troy Schwant

/ 9 Jul 2012

“Are you going to let your kids play football?”

I get asked this question probably once a week. For those people reading my blog for the first time, I have three boys, 5, 2 1/2, and 1 respectively. I live in Mobile, Alabama which is a state…

By Troy Schwant

/ 2 Jul 2012

Struggling to find my voice…

So I have this blog, yet I don't blog. I want to blog, at times I have really good ideas for blogs but still, I don't blog. I've worked at two firms, a defense firm and my…

By Troy Schwant

/ 28 Jun 2012

For-Profit Nursing Homes Care is Lower Quality

The nation’s largest for-profit nursing homes deliver significantly lower quality of care because they typically have fewer staff nurses than non-profit and government-owned nursing homes…

By Dottie Perry

/ 31 Jan 2012

Rain Runoff Harming Lower Landowners is Actionable

Do you know how often a developer who clears land, paves it, and changes its contours has increased the volume and changed the path rain runoff takes as it flows across that land? Especially…

By Dottie Perry

/ 31 Jan 2012

Learning to Tell a Story

At the core, every successful trial attorney must be a storyteller. Sadly, law schools do little to nurture and develop this essential skill but rather, ironically, do quite a good bit to…

By Clay Rossi

/ 28 Dec 2011

That's the Law??? Shame on you, Alabama

I got a call last week from a person who was robbed by a bad guy in the parking lot of a big box store here in Mobile. There were several lights out in the section that he parked and he did not see…

By Pete Mackey

/ 10 Oct 2011

Fire danger from laptop computers in bed

My wife sent me an email about a fire death thought to have been caused by a laptop computer the decedent was using in bed before he fell asleep. The theory was that the air intake for the cooling…

By Pete Burns

/ 17 Sep 2011

The Worst Lawyer TV Ad Ever

I do not know any statistics on lawyers advertizing on television – what percentage do, how many ads per month are the average or how much money is spent on the endeavour. Our firm has never…

By Pete Mackey

/ 30 Jun 2011