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.

Good Doctor $3.8M – Anthem Blue Cross 0

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…

By Pete Mackey

/ 11 Apr 2013

Indemnity Provisions: When Indemnification is to Your Benefit Depends on Where the Risk Lies

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…

By Dottie Perry

/ 9 Apr 2013

Is Fukushima the Worst Nuclear Disaster — in America?

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…

By Clay Rossi

/ 9 Apr 2013

Exploding Water

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…

By Zeb Ramey

/ 8 Apr 2013

The Rutgers basketball fiasco just another example of bullying ignored…

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…

By Troy Schwant

/ 7 Apr 2013

How to prevent a will contest….

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…

By Troy Schwant

/ 5 Apr 2013

Getting Your Affairs in Order

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…

By Billy Cunningham

/ 4 Apr 2013

OSHA Ignores Long Term Safety Threats

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…

By Pete Mackey

/ 3 Apr 2013

Monsanto Protection Act: A Post-Mortem for Our Legal System

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…

By Clay Rossi

/ 2 Apr 2013

Junk Food and a Pain in the Neck: Identifying Causes of Depression

About nine-and-a-half percent of the adult population of the U.S. suffers from depression. About 121 million people worldwide are affected by depressive disorders. Twice as many women as men are…

By Dottie Perry

/ 1 Apr 2013

Warning! Railroad Tracks!

Have you ever wondered why some railroad crossing have flashing lights and gates, why some only have cross-buck warnings and some do not have anything (hopefully there are none of these)?…

By Billy Cunningham

/ 1 Apr 2013

Money evidently still talks when it comes to receiving favorable treatment by Congress…

In case you thought that Congress was now run by elected officials that answer to the people as opposed to special interests, you can sleep well tonight knowing that special interests groups…

By Troy Schwant

/ 28 Mar 2013