Day on Torts

I posted an entry recently concerning access to municipal codes in Tennessee. I mentioned that I did not know how to find the code for Nashville on the Web. Tony Duncan knew – here is the site. Thanks Tony

Merck tried – and failed – to postpone the first Vioxx trial. The case will be tried starting next week in rural Texas courtroom. Merck said they sought a continuance because of pre-trial publicity. The judge said he would not grant a continuance before looking responses to the jury questionaires.…

So-called black boxes capture lots and lots of data of importance to lawyers in motor vehicle litigation. The information contained in these devices can literally make or break a case. In trucking cases, log books are now kept on computer by some trucking concerns. This article talks about the fight…

For Independence Day, why not read about another affront to the civil justice system, this one via a bill sponsored by Texas Republican Lamar Smith? There is a good article on the dangers of the bill over at law.com. It is amazing that the bill not only attacks a nonexistant…

Thanks to Robert Ambrogi for telling us about an interesting study from the Rand Corporation. Rand studied asbestos payments, and found that 42 cents of every dollar went to victims, 27 cents went to their lawyers, and 31 cents went to defense costs. See an executive summary of the study…

Ok, you may think this is boring but … Trying to get your hands on local ordinances in other cities and counties is a challenge. Here is a site that offers the codes in some Tennessee cities for free. The cities included are Brentwood, Clarksville, Gallatin, Germantown, Kingsport, Knoxville, and…

The Tennessee Department of Transportation has a terrific web tool that lets you view the amount of traffic on state roads. You can click on any county in the state, then zoom around the map to find the highway you are looking for. This is a great tool for checking…

Branham & Day is happy to announce that our firm is now running another legal blog, medmalblog.com. Several of the attorneys at our office, as well as our nurse-paralegal, are posting entries on the new site. Rebecca Blair, a shareholder at Branham & Day, is leading it. The blog is…

From over at the Med Mal Blog: The Eastern Section Court of Appeals held today that Givens prevents a trial court from issuing an order that allows ex parte communications with a plaintiff’s treating physicians. The Court of Appeals rejected the argument by the defendant doctors and Tennessee Medical Association…

How many times have you gotten ready to file suit against an out-of-state corporation and searched the Internet for its registered agent? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a single website with links to corporate filing information from all 50 states? Voila. The site correctly points out that the extent…