Judge Susano and his colleagues on the Eastern Section of the Tennessee Court of Appeals issued an opinion yesterday in Usher v. Charles Blalock & Sons, Inc. The opinion addresses some important issues of Tennessee law, but is mentioned here because it utlizies photographs scanned into the body of the…
Trial Fusion is a software program designed to make it easier to keep track of exhibits at trial and publish them to the jury. Read more about it here. A three-minute video explaining the program is here.
I have good news for all of you who pre-ordered a copy of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law: the book arrived from the printer on Monday and the vast majority of the advance sale copies were shipped out the same day. The balance of the advance…
Fifty months ago "Steven" and I had an ongoing debate about a post I wrote about the John Ritter case. I have repeated it below: Steven and I have been having a discussion – it started here. Here is his latest missive: "My mistake, I did not mean to state…
You won’t read about this anywhere else. State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company, the doctor-owned medical malpractice insurer that insures the vast majority of non-university based physicians in Tennessee, has slashed medical malpractice insurance rates. The average rate decrease, effective for renewals on or after May 15, 2010, is $23.1% at…
"Pressure Ulcers in the Surgical Patient" is a 38-page study guide prepared for health care providers prepared on behalf of Kimberly-Clark Health Care Education. Although the article focuses on pressure sores and burns that arise in the care of treatment of surgical patients, the information will be helpful to anyone…
I file lawsuits for a living. Thus, I understand that reasonable minds often differ about whether there is liability in a given situation, often because there is a dispute about the facts. I also understand the idea of pushing the legal envelope – of attempting to expand the law to create…
Ok, so this post is not about tort law. But it is information that tort lawyers (or their assistants) can use. Sometimes it is handy to create a demand letter or another document and use hyperlinks to allow the reader to quickly and easily view other documents that will be…
Starting next week I will begin to write about the bills that passed the 2010 General Assembly that are of interest to tort lawyers. There are fewer tort law-related bills in 2010 than there were in 2009, but the changes that have been made are changes you should know…
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the family of a woman killed in a car accident should be permitted to bring suit against Mazda Motor Corp. alleging that the death was caused by the failure of Mazda to install three-point seatbelts in its 1993 MPV minivan. Here…