Industry Insights
| Later, Alligator | 10/24/2008 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Julius YoungLater, alligator.That's the message Acting Division of Workers' Compensation Administrative Director Carrie Nevans delivered to future injured workers in her talk to a Sacramento workers' compensation conference on Oct. 20.Earlier this y...Read More | |||
| Legislature Should Opt Out of SB 1096 | 03/20/2008 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| --By Julius YoungHere's a legislative stinker for you: SB 1096.The bill would allow pharmacies to sell patient information to pharmaceutical companies, who would then be able to communicate directly with patients about prescription refills.The rationale? Some ...Read More | |||
| Liability for Negligent Hiring of an Incompetent For-Hire Motor Carrier | 08/11/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Thomas D. Foti The New Jersey Supreme Court considered the propriety of an order granting summary judgment in favor of a trash hauler where the complaint alleged that it had a duty to ensure the safety of trucks used by an independent contractor. In Puckrein v. ATI Tra...Read More | |||
| Lawsuits Won't Make W.Va. Miners Safer | 07/28/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| West Virginia is sensitive on the issue of coal mine safety for good reason. It's personal. The industry employs more than 17,000 of our fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives. Miners know from the first moment they strap on their helmets that theirs is o...Read More | |||
| Leno Answers Your Voc Rehab Questions | 07/14/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Allan Leno BPPVE The Bureau for Private Post-secondary Vocational Education ceased to exist as of midnight June 30. There are two bills pending in the Legislature to address the transition to a new agency (AB 1525) and the creation of a new agency to succeed BPPVE ...Read More | |||
| Loss Control Programs Need Tune-Up | 06/16/2007 | ||
| By: Rebecca Shafer | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Rebecca Shafer The key for businesses and insurers seeking to clamp down on workers' compensation expense is an intensive, comprehensive look at cost drivers from the moment an injury occurs to the day the employee goes back on the job. This involves studying a wide variet...Read More | |||
| Loss of Two-Thirds of Index Finger Qualifies as 'Grave Injury | 05/05/2007 | ||
| By: Larry Rogak | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Larry Rogak Castillo v. 711 Group, Inc. et al., NYLJ 4/24/07 (2d Dept 2007) The third-party defendant in this personal injury action -- the main plaintiff's employer -- appealed from an order denying its motion for summary judgment dismissing the third party complaint on the...Read More | |||
| Lead Plaintiff's Guilty Plea Trouble for Lawyer | 03/24/2007 | ||
| By: Barry Zalma | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Barry Zalma Steven Cooperman, a former ophthalmologist previously convicted of insurance fraud, admitted to taking payments for serving as lead plaintiff in class actions filed by Milberg Weiss over a period of 12 years. Court documents filed January 31, 2007 detail Cooper...Read More | |||
| Lawyer Ethics ... Don't Believe Everything You See on Television | 03/10/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Michael A. Wolff Viewers of popular television shows about lawyers are likely to be left with some strange impressions of lawyers' ethics. From some shows, they even may get the impression that there aren't any. For example, although Denny Crane and Alan Shore are witty and acerbic and...Read More | |||
| Let's Kill All the Lawyers | 01/27/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By David J. DePaolo "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." There is recurrent modern debate about the true meaning of Dick the Butcher's sarcastic utterance in response to Jack Cade's boastful ambitions towards the throne in Shakespeare's Henry VII, Part 2, as m...Read More | |||
