Monday Morning PI Roundup
Posted On: May 16, 2011
- The Volokh Conspiracy asks about a question that was left out of the Squawk Box coverage I saw this morning: does IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn have diplomatic immunity in the United States. In spite of the fact that I enjoyed diplomatic immunity as a teenager - man it felt cool - I think the whole idea of it is infuriating. If some French hotshot in a $3,000 a night hotel raped an American, we need to make sure we can hold him accountable (or at least make sure the French do).
- There are more reports of arrests in a personal injury settlement scam, this time in Florida. On Thursday, deputies issued warrants for 53 people involved in a fake injury, fake treatment, settlement ring. As this St. Petersburg Times article points out, this is a tax against the honest. Florida motorists are believed by one study to pay $83 more in annual personal injury protection premiums because of fraud. Of course, Florida brings much of this on themselves with their silly no-fault system.
- Max Kennerly gives a long dissertation on his philosophy of Google, search engine optimization, and the balance between writing a credible blog that is an important part of the conversation and also making your blog productive for your practice. I breakdown my similar theory here.
- We are starting out slowly announcing it because we are completely redoing the blog format with Justia's help. But the Miller & Zois Kids Foundation has a blog that is eventually going to blow past this one. You can find our new inchoate, but soon to be next big thing, blog, called Miller & Zois Kids Blog, here.
- Brooks Schuelke has to be just wringing his hands over what Texas has done and continues to try to do to destroy legitimate personal injury claims. What? He is doing that right now? Okay, I'll link to it.
- House Bill 5 has made it out of committee in the House. It strikes me as a political speech instead of a piece of legislation. The chance of this bill passing approaches zero.
- Baltimore City looks to score a new courthouse. What is wrong with the old one? It is 1,000 years old and has 5 amazing - really nice - courtrooms and the rest are awful.
Other Round-Ups
- Overlawyered (this morning)
- Maryland Malpractice Lawyer Blog (last week)
- TortsProf (Bill Childs finds nothing of mine "link worthy" so he must have some really good stuff on there)
