10 Personal Injury Stories of the Week
Posted On: June 20, 2011
- Note to my fellow Maryland attorneys: please stop filing silly lawsuits. Not every modicum of injustice needs to be righted through the judicial system. I promise.
- Max Kennerly gives an impassioned defense of injured plaintiffs' rights to "lawyer up." He writes: "There’s nothing wrong whatsoever about the Joneses hiring a lawyer or with that lawyer conducting his own investigation. We do the same day in and day out. So do all plaintiffs' firms that aren't just advertising shells. People have rights. People want to know what happened to their loved ones. Lawyers can help with both." Maybe Max has set up a little bit of a straw man but, still, he crushes that straw man.
- A judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed against Google by a woman who claimed her Google Maps walking directions led her to cross a highway. We have 311 million people in this country. A small minority of them are going to file dumb lawsuits. This has been happening in this country for over 300 years. Get over it already. Stop pretending the extreme is the norm.
- My blog posts on Haro v. Sebelius have gotten a lot of traffic. Turns out, lots of personal injury lawyers are dealing with Medicare liens. Who knew?
- John Bratt gives some thoughts from Houston, where he is camped out taking depositions in a brain injury case, on cross-examining a neurologist
- The South Carolina Nursing Home Blog writes about a disturbing Office of the Inspector General report showing more than half of Medicare claims for atypical antipsychotic drugs are erroneous, amounting to at least $116 million of waste. We could solve all our Medicare problems by eliminating obvious waste. (No, I really don't think that. But it would help.)
- Another nursing home blog, the Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog, reports on a $5.4 million dollar verdict in a bed sore case. When the economics of a bed sore warrant a lawsuit it's one thing, but most bed sore nursing home claims are the result of negligence that can so easily be avoided.
- Another state has joined Maryland in capping non-economic damages. HT: TortsProf Blog.
- Lawyers and snakes. Everybody wins.
- Overlawyered's round up today.
