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My new book – Day on Torts:  A Handbook for Tennessee Tort Lawyers – was delivered yesterday (November 5).  It was promised for last week, but there were apparently some difficulties in the shipping process. 

The project started about eight months ago and the book was delivered within ten days of the original target date.  The printer did a great job getting the book out in a timely fashion despite an unexpected glitch with the texture of the copper band on the cover. 

The reason for the "thank you" is that a good number of you have already placed an order for one (or more) books.  We shipped twenty-five books yesterday and will ship about that many tomorrow.  Orders continue to arrive via www.dayontortsbook.com.

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 on the table. It is a very big surgery, and most die before making it to the hospital, making the actual mortality higher. An aortic dissection, can be a difficult diagnosis to make, and the surgery while not as challenging is still very difficult with a significant morbidity and mortality. Anyone who has ever had to work up chest pain knows this is part of the differential, but the odds are very small that this is the dx. Also, patients don’t show up and say I have “aortic dissection.” Doctors have to piece together many factors.
While his death is tragic, there is no guarantee that even if the doctor was superman (or superwoman) with Xray vision able to make a diagnosis instantaneously, John Ritter would have survived.
However, it is a sad story, so I guess if I was on the jury, I would listen to the sleazy trial attorney and decide to “award” the attorney some money for all his suffering. Who knows maybe the family will receive some of it.”

My response:

The parties have agreed to limit the time each side will have to present evidence in the next Vioxx trial. The time-keeping method? Chess clocks.

Read more here.

Jury selection started yesterday morning.