Day on Torts

For the quarter – $8,400,000,000 Per day – $93,333,333 Per hour – $3,888,888 Per minute – $64,814 Minimum Wage – $5.15 per hour

What happens when your smoke detector fails to work? Plaintiffs bought two smoke detectors for their home. According to The Business Review, “The detectors at issue were ionization type smoke detectors that sense high temperature, fast moving fires, as opposed to detectors employing photoelectric cells which are better at detecting…

An analysis by Forbes. The title says it all: “Merck’s got to keep fighting.”

The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled that deposition videotaping expenses (and the cost of synchronizing the deposition with the written transcript) are not recoverable as discretionary costs under Rule 54.04 of the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure. The case is Parker v. Brennan, No. M2005-01376-COA-R3-CV (April 19, 2006). The…

Missing deadlines is something that can happen to anyone. This legal malpractice case, against the Baker Donelson firm, demonstrates what can happen when an important deadline (filing notice of appeal) is missed.

Do you ever get that feeling that you just can’t get the words from your brain to come out your mouth – correctly? You are not alone. Thanks to The Wall Street Journal Law Blog for telling me about this story.

Steven and I have been having a discussion – it started here. Here is his latest missive: “My mistake, I did not mean to state that this particular lawyer(s) was sleazy, but that the trial bar in general is sleazy. I will admit that there must be some decent trial…

The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that the amounts of settlements made by doctor in other cases are not discoverable in another medical malpractice action against him. The case is Miller v. Kelly; it is reported at 130 P.3d 982 (Ariz. App. 2006). The Court held that “the amount…

I got this comment from Steven concerning my post about the settlement of the medical malpractice lawsuit concerning John Ritter’s death: “{T]his illustrates the insanity of the system. If a patient arrives in the ER with a ruptured AAA (abdominal aortic aneurysm), his chance of survival is ~50%. 25% die…

The FMCSA has a new study out that “[d]rivers of large trucks and other vehicles involved in truck crashes are ten times more likely to be the cause of the crash than other factors, such as weather, road conditions, and vehicle performance ….” A quick summary from the press release:…