Two patients recently won multi-million-dollar verdicts in their medical malpractice lawsuits. A Maine woman won $7.65 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit after a hospital technician failed to diagnose her cervical cancer. The verdict was one of the largest in the state’s history. A Florida woman won a $23 million verdict after poor treatment during […]
An Oklahoma jury has started deliberations in a Farmers Insurance lawsuit stemming from insurance claims after a 2013 tornado. The Farmers Insurance lawsuit alleges that the company failed to provide policy holders Gabriel and Claudia Becerra with adequate funds to rebuild their home after a tornado destroyed their home in May 2013. Since the couple […]
Over the weekend, I ran into this article: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/14/us/cnn-heroes-lee/index.html As anyone who knows me well can tell you, I hate food waste. And I do what I can to stop it–simple things, like, for example, when I go out to a Mexican restaurant in a group of four to six people, we order fajitas for […]
A federal judge stated that an immigration detention policy intended to deter illegal immigrants is “likely unlawful.” U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg wrote that the use of immigration detention facilities to influence other undocumented immigrants away from entering the country violated current immigration statutes. The decision stems from a lawsuit brought against the U.S. […]
A law passed during the Reagan Administration allows spouses in a military divorce to receive half of their service member spouse’s pensions. The Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act of 1982 states that military pensions, which service members typically earn after twenty years in the military, are to be considered community property. These pensions, intended […]
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the non-disclosure clauses in many medical malpractice lawsuit settlements lacked consistency and transparency. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin examined the non-disclosure sections of medical malpractice lawsuit settlement agreements filed against the school’s physicians from 2001 to 2012. The study […]
A controversial bill that would place restrictions on homeowners insurance lawsuits passed the Texas Senate. The bill passed by a vote of 21-10 and will move on to the Texas House of Representatives. If the bill passes both houses, it will go to the desk of Governor Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it […]
A Wisconsin judge heard arguments in an immigration lawsuit filed by an immigrant rights group against Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. Voces de la Frontera (Voices of the Border) filed the immigration lawsuit last month alleging that Sheriff Clarke had disregarded their requests for immigration data his office submitted to the U.S. Office […]
A study by a medical malpractice lawsuit insurance company found that errors in federally-mandated electronic health records are on the rise. The insurer’s study discovered that issues with the security and internal consistency of these records has become a leading cause of physician errors. These errors often lead to the treatment mistakes that prompt medical […]
A recent seminar at the Houstonian Hotel examined how women in the midst of a Texas divorce can cope with transitioning out of their marriages. Nearly two dozen women attended the six-hour Guide to Good Divorce seminar. The attendees, ranging in age from their thirties to their seventies, were all either in the process of […]