From over at the Med Mal Blog: The Eastern Section Court of Appeals held today that Givens prevents a trial court from issuing an order that allows ex parte communications with a plaintiff’s treating physicians. The Court of Appeals rejected the argument by the defendant doctors and Tennessee Medical Association…
Branham & Day is happy to announce that our firm is now running another legal blog, medmalblog.com. Several of the attorneys at our office, as well as our nurse-paralegal, are posting entries on the new site. Rebecca Blair, a shareholder at Branham & Day, is leading it. The blog is…
Sometimes you need data that you can only find from the federal government. Here is a link to a site that has more statistics than you can shake a stick at. Hundreds of federal agencies have statistics on this site on even more subjects. Here is another site than can…
Our friends in the insurance defense bar have compiled a list of helpful links to websites to do sleuthing on the Internet. If they are going to do it, don’t you think you might want to consider doing it yourself? I must say that this isn’t the best such list…
Aren’t you sick and tired of these jerks who attack your clients and your profession? I have been jerked around at Little League games, my kids’ basketball games, cocktail parties, church – it never stops. Here is some ammo you can use to fight back – unless you think that…
You tort and negligence law junkies may have been wondering where I have been the past few days. Well, I went to Knoxville on Tuesday for a committee meeting to work on the Tennessee Pattern Jury Instructions. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I was at the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association Annual…
Client loses products liability case on summary judgment. Client gets different law firm and sues expert and expert referral service, saying that expert was unqualified and misrepresented qualifications. Client does not sue lawyer. Expert and expert service then sued the plaintiff’s lawyers for equitable indemnification, saying that the lawyers should…
We can’t always talk about negligence and other tort law topics. Here is a fascinating article by Frank Rich.
I apologize for the absence of a post yesterday. I got to the office at 7:00 a.m. and sat down to do a little fact research on the computer. I got wrapped up in that research and it gave rise to re-writing two motions on discovery issues in a pending…
This should scare the hell out of every one of us who try lawsuits for a living and have to rely on or fight against “scientific studies.” This article from the Washington Post tells us that (a) “more than 5 percent of scientists answering a confidential questionnaire admitted to having…