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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…

As a 51 year old man happily married to a beautiful, intelligent 37 year old woman, I confess I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about thongs.  I also confess that it never crossed my mind that a person wearing a thong could ever suffer a personal injury from…

The Tennessee Supreme Court has issued an opinion interpreting Rule 35 of the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure. Rule 35 is the rule the permits a party to have a physician of the party’s choice examine the adverse party.  Unfortunately, it is often referred to as an independent medical examination, and…

Governor Bredesen has signed the "Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act" into law.  The Act is effective for discovery requests after July 1, 2008.  The legislation establishes a procedure for litigants in other states to do discovery in Tennessee.  However, the Act is a uniform act, so Tennessee lawyers will…

The Tennessee Supreme Court has released an opinion that settles (and changes) the law on the "prior suit pending" doctrine.  The issue rises infrequently in tort cases, but is still worthy of note. In Tennessee a worker’s compensation lawsuit cannot be filed until after a benefit review conference (BRC) does not…

I have been in Washington, D.C. since Sunday attending the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Law Institute.  Thanks to Howard Vogel, Judge Cissy Daughtrey, Chief Justice Mickey Barker, Bill Wagner, and Lucian Pera I was elected to membership in the ALI in the Fall of 2006.  We heard from…