The March 2009 edition of the Tennessee Trial Law Report is in the mail. This edition includes a summary of 20 different cases addressing various aspects of the law of torts, civil procedure, evidence and trial as decided by Tennessee appellate courts between January 15 and February 15, 2009. The…
Here is an animation of the crash of US Airways 1549 landing in the Hudson River prepared by Scene Systems. The simulation includes the audio from the pilot and air traffic control. Scene Systems creates animations for litigation of all types.
Tort lawyers have been carefully watching the tobacco lawsuit against Phillip Morris which arose out of the death of 55-year old Stuart Hess. The Florida jury imposed liability several days ago and earlier today awarded $3M in compensatory damages and $5M in punitive damages. Read more here.
Today’s USA TODAY includes an interesting article titled "How much ‘truth’ is too much?" written by Rod Dreher. The article addresses the impact of the Roman Catholic Church’s sex abuse sandal on the life of the author, who investigated and wrote about it. Readers who know me know that our firm filed…
Jeffrey surreptitiously installed video equipment in the bedroom of the marital home (where Jeffrey may or may not have been living, depending on whom one believed), including a motion sensing optical eye in the headboard of the bed and a camera concealed in an alarm clock. His wife Cathy learned…
The February 2009 edition of the Tennessee Trial Law Report is at the printer and will be mailed to subscribers in the next day or two. This edition includes a summary of 24 different cases addressing various aspects of the law of torts, civil procedure, evidence and trial as decided by Tennessee appellate…
Jack Weisberg kept up with George W. Bush’s verbal slip-ups during the past 8 years. It was a full-time job. This article contain’s Weisberg’s list of the top 25 Bushisms. A sample: because of the rising cost of malpractice insurance, "[t]oo many OB/GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women…
I know – this is the third posting about the 2007-08 Annual Report of the Tennessee Judiciary. I can’t help myself – I am fascinated by this kind of data. This falls in the "can you believe this" category? There were about the same number of DUI charges filed in circuits court in…
The 2007-08 Annual Report of the Tennessee Judiciary also has some interesting statistics on appeals. Here are some of the highlights: There were 793 Rule 11 applications filed during the fiscal year. ( A Rule 11 application is a request for the Tennessee Supreme Court to hear a discretionary appeal.) …
The Tennessee Supreme Court has just released the 2007-08 “Annual Report of the Tennessee Judiciary.” It includes data for the 2007-08 fiscal year. Here is some of the information revealed in the report: There were 537 medical malpractice cases filed during the fiscal year. That is down almost 10% from the 584…