I came upon a new blog – Insurance Scrawl – written by Marc Mayerson in D.C. Here is how Marc describes the purpose of the blog: “Insurance Scrawl focuses on the law of insurance, the insurance of business, and the business of insurance. It is the first insurance blog (or…
The Washington Post reports that “Americans pay more when they get sick than people in other Western nations and get more confused, error-prone treatment, according to the largest survey to compare U.S. health care with other nations.” The Post also states that “Americans also reported the greatest number of medical…
Apparently not every doctor in America is willing to accept the propaganda from liability insurance carriers that “your rates are the fault of greedy trial lawyers.” This doctor wants information, and is pushing legislation to get it. Read more here.
Jurors have apparently reached a verdict in the second Vioxx case. It is expected to be announced in the next few minutes. (From ABC News).
In the second Vioxx case, the New Jersey jury ruled Merck not liable. Read about it at Forbes.
Here is a great decision out of the state of Illinois, home of the World Champion White Sox. (I never thought I would type that phrase.) The Fourth Division of the Illinois Court of Appeals said that “plaintiffs presented evidence that one result of the budget cuts mandated by defendant…
The Government Printing Office has a host of information for you. Government Printing Office which provides electronic access to Federal Government documents. The site gives you access to official, published versions of legislative, executive and judicial documents, including the Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, and Presidential Materials. For example,…
Insurance Journal reports this: “There is no credible evidence to link the tort system either to the economic ills its critics claim or to the benefits they argue would be produced by altering it, according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute.” The article goes on to say…
The Tennessee Supreme Court has decided Brown v. Crown Equipment Co., a case that asked the Court to give us a further understanding of the McDaniel opinion on expert testimony that it released a few years ago. Brown involves an injury related to a forklift; the trial judge excluded two…
The jury in the NJ Vioxx case retired for deliberations at short time ago (it is now 2:35 CDT). Here is a summary of Chris’ closing argument.