It is not uncommon for the defense in personal injury cases to attack the character of the plaintiff. It seems to me that young defense lawyers particularly enjoy doing this to uneducated, unsophisticated plaintiffs. The defense in a products case in California introduced evidence that the plaintiff had a mistress…
Day on Torts: A Handbook for Tennessee Tort Lawyers 2009 is almost ready to go to press. The 2009 edition will include reference to all of the Tennessee appellate cases on tort law released in the last year, add over 20 new statutes of interest to tort lawyers, and update rules…
Many of you know that former Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Penny White, former Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Joe Riley and I have a seminar company called "Justice Programs." We offer a 15 hour CLE program each Fall that permits attendees to meet all mandatory CLE obligations for the…
SVMIC’s position on how the new statute making it more difficult to sue physicians will impact what doctors pay for medical malpractice insurance: "Regarding the effect of this reform on your professional liability insurance, it will be difficult to quantify what, if any, rate changes are a direct result of the…
Ok – I know I have not been posting lately. I spent 8 days in Canada fishing and returned on Saturday night. I am now back to work and will be back on a normal blogging pattern this week. Thanks for coming back to the site.
Did you know that Tennessee has a specific statute addressing sex abuse claims against therapists? The "Therapist Sexual Misconduct Victims Compensation Act" is set forth in T.C.A. Sec. 29-26-201 et seq. A "therapist" is defined as "any person who performs therapy regardless of whether the person is licensed by the…
AAJ has released a report titled "The Ten Worst Insurance Companies in America." Read it here. The list: 1. Allstate 2. Unum 3. AIG 4. State Farm 5. Conseco 6. Wellpoint 7. Farmers 8. United Health 9. Torchmark 10. Liberty Mutual
This post has nothing to do with torts. How is it possible that the White House, which has direct access to and hopefully control over the State Department, the Defense Department, the CIA, the NSA, and host of other agencies, possibly rely on a Web site called Encyclopedia of World Biography…
I spent the last week at Rosemary Beach, Florida with my family. I took a week off from blogging and virtually everything else and did nothing. Let the blogging begin! Here is a Tort Law Tibit from June of 2005: The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices is available, free…
Harris Interactive conducted a online poll about jury service in December 2007. The findings include the following: * "Two-thirds (65%) of Americans have been called to serve jury duty, two-thirds of that (68%) actually attended, leaving one-third (32%) who did not. * Of those who have attended jury duty, just…