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Googling Potential Jurors

  The Internet Cases blog alerted me to this case.  Apparently, plaintiffs counsel in a medical malpractice case began using his laptop to "Google" potential jurors to learn background information about them.  The Court questioned this effort as follows: THE COURT: Are you Googling these [potential jurors]? [PLAINTIFFS COUNSEL]: Your…

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Thanks for the Book Orders

Thanks to each of you who has ordered the third edition of Day on Torts:  Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law.     Hundreds of books have been shipped in the last two months and orders are continuing to flow in.   Day on Torts identifies more than 300 Tennessee tort law subjects…

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SVMIC Financial Results – 2009

On June 15, 2010 I reported that SVMIC, the bedpan mutual that insures the vast majority of Tennessee doctors,  reduced its rates by 23.1% .  I also reported that  the company declared a $20,000,000 dividend.  The net effect of the dividend means that policyholders with a history of no paid claims will receive…

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