The Tennessean has reported that a E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak has sent four toddlers to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Six other children also became infected with the potentially deadly organism. The children became infected at Paulette’s Group Day Care Home. The paper reports that the day care center has been…
Some of you know that we represented two boys who were sexually abused by a (former) Roman Catholic priest who served in the Diocese of Nashville. I came to learn most than I wanted to know (and more that the confidentiality order will allow me to share) about the Church’s…
Moe Levine wrote and let me know that a link to the article that formed the based of my post about admissibility of electronic records was broken. He is right – and now I cannot find the article. I will keep looking. Sorry about that. However, if you go to…
I hesitate to use this title – my “comments” log is already filled with posts from people who try to sell sex over the Internet. But “Sex Torts” is the name of a law review article by Deana Pollard and, at a minimum, that title got each one of you…
There are a good number of you folks – almost 50 of you every workday – who check this blog before 8:00 a.m. I typically get up between 4:00 and 4:30 and do my daily post first thing in morning, so some of you have come to expect that I…
Well, the 2006 TTLA Convention is over. As I mentioned earlier this week, Gary Gober did a great job organizing the speakers for the event. Many of you came up to me at the various meetings and parties and expressed your appreciation for my work on this blog. I truly…
As I mentioned in a post last weekend, our firm had three cases going to trial this week. John Branham and Brandon Bass settled their personal injury case Tuesday morning right around the time for closing argument. They obtained a great result in a case in which no money was…
As you undoubted know if you are a regular reader of this blog, we represent plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases. We average almost three calls per business day from prospective medical malpractice plaintiffs; our screening process weeds out 98% of those calls and therefore we file less than 20 of…
“Are we negotiating or are we telling the truth?” That’s a quote from a defense lawyer friend of mine made while we were trying to resolve a medical malpractice case. I have used it many times over the years. The American Bar Association has issued a Formal Ethics Opinion recognizing…
The doctors have been claiming that there are shortages in the numbers of physicians and that the shortage is due to laws which hold doctors accountable for negligence that causes harm to patients. (You know, just as if they were truck drivers or other real people.) Well, yesterday’s Los Angeles…