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Buchheit: Cyprus Could Need a Second Bailout
Bill on Bankruptcy: Sigmund Freud, Marx Brothers, Bernie Madoff
Craft Beer Boom in Michigan
Law Prof: I May File Law School Ethics Charges
Monster Energy Drink Accused of Teen Death
A New World for Mortgage Banking – What You Need to Know About the CFPB’s Final Mortgage Servicing Rules
Beware of Notarios
What’s Next from the CFPB
Weekly Brief: Lawyers Laid Off After Foreclosure Settlement
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The ethical issues surrounding the use of social media in the legal environment is constantly evolving, making it very important for attorneys to keep abreast of recent decisions, regulatory initiatives and legislative...more
The United States Supreme Court recently held that the Little Tucker Act does not waive the sovereign immunity of the United States in an action for damages alleging a violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”). The...more
The American Association of Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) has launched a new campaign to educate consumers about their rights to bring civil suits to redress wrongs including medical...more
2012 Voter’ s Guide to State Judicial Elections - Flood of Money, Negative Ads Threaten Right to Fair Trial Three darkly silhouetted “murderers” describe their gruesome crimes, and then tell viewers that “Judge Thomas...more
This week, ABC News picked up on an issue that has been simmering just below the surface for months and causing thousands of otherwise healthy men unnecessary pain and suffering. The story was written in response to a new...more
In April 2010, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gianvi - a generic version of Bayer’s blockbuster birth control pill Yaz - to be sold in the United States by Teva Pharmaceuticals and Barr Laboratories....more
Recently, the public has become aware of serious health complications suffered by women after undergoing surgery for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) or stress urinary incontinence (SUI) with transvaginal mesh devices. According...more
Dangerous side effects linked to the controversial birth control pill Yaz have prompted thousands of women around the country to file lawsuits against Bayer Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of the drug. Those filing the...more
Bayer AG has reported that settlements of U.S. lawsuits claiming its Yasmin line of birth control pills caused blood clots have increased to approximately $142 million. The Leverkusen, Germany-based pharmaceutical giant has...more
Plaintiffs in New Orleans have settled a lawsuit for $80 million against builders, suppliers and manufacturers who sold and installed defective drywall in houses across the south, ruining metal fixtures and causing health...more
This week I am attending the DRI Product Liability seminar. Yesterday's highlights included a keynote address by Hon. Anne Northup, Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Her remarks covered "The Past,...more
From time-to-time, I will comment on legal developments in consumer protection that have implications for the e-commerce environment. On March 15, 2012, the British Columbia Court of Appeal released its decision in Loychuk v....more
This article discusses the need for medical practitioners to consult state law rather than rely exclusively on ACOG Practice Bulletins when attempting to determine their obligation of informed consent when it comes to the...more
The Ninth Circuit last week reversed the certification of a nationwide class raising consumer fraud claims against an auto maker. See Mazza, et al. v. American Honda Motor Co., No. 09-55376 (9th Circuit). Honda appealed...more
Every year, thousands of individuals exercise their constitutional right to file a civil claim in court. Most often, the purpose of these lawsuits is to seek compensation for some sort of wrongdoing or injury. It’s often a...more
About 75,000 victims of a work-from-home scam have received refunds of the money they paid courtesy of the FTC. This scam offered an online work-from-home opportunity where the victims were sold access to job listings. The...more
This is part three of a three-part series. Part one and part two appeared previously this week. When Ronald Sanders’ wife died of brain damage in a hospital in 2005, he sued neurologist Iftekhar Ahmed. The doctor had...more
A woman whose house burned down at Christmastime 2009 has won a $784,000 jury verdict against her homeowner's insurer. The verdict included an 18 percent penalty because the jury found the insurer acted in bad faith in...more
Felecita Del Carmen Canas was burned alive in a gas explosion. She left three orphans. Millions and millions of underground pipelines transport gas from public utility companies to our homes, schools and businesses. Most of...more
The combination of the poor economy and the dated minimum California statutory limits makes the time right to readjust the intent of the uninsured/underinsured motorist law. The stated effect of the law, to guarantee to an...more
Two recent decisions of the New Jersey Appellate Division, one published and the other unpublished, provide some much needed guidance on the scope and limitations of New Jersey’s statute of repose, N.J.S.A. § 2A:14-1.1 in the...more
This Opposition to defendant's motion to reduce verdict re past medical bills was successful in light of recent opinions designed to reduce verdicts for plaintiffs who received past medical awards from their jury. This issue...more
On February 23, 2011, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland followed the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in holding that a debt collection company could incur liability under...more
This is the per-trial Motion in Limine to prevent the defendant from introducing a proposed "reduction" of a large hospital bill on the grounds that such evidence violates the collateral source rule. The Court granted the...more
Ober|Kaler Construction Group principal Raymond Burke and associate Kelly Preteroti recently secured a significant jury award on behalf of the owners of a townhome in Montgomery County in a claim involving faulty construction...more
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