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• Access to Civil Justice Will Motivate Voters

  Ric Davis | July 15, 2007 5:40 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  A national poll of 2008 voters by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc. reveals voters have anxiety concerning corporate misconduct. There is large support among voters for a strong civil justice system to ensure corporate accountability and fairness. A memo summarizing the poll's findings concludes: Americans are deeply worried about their nation's future, and concern about corporate...

• Medical Malpractice Could Be Reduced If New System Adopted

  Matt Christian | June 23, 2007 6:42 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  A new electronic system developed which could allow doctors to send prescriptions to pharmacies electronically could reduce medical errors and medical negligence. One study suggests that as much as 20% of the 550,000 physicians practicing could use this system but only about 5% are actually employing it.The system would allow doctors to use mobile phones or computers to send the prescriptions. ...

• Man fired minutes before injury awarded workers' comp benefits

  Ric Davis | August 31, 2007 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  The following is a published account of a case handled by Christian and Davis as printed in Lawyers Weekly:An Upstate construction worker who had been fired for alleged misconduct just minutes before he was run over by a truck was entitled to workers' comp benefits, the Circuit Court has ruled. The accident happened as the claimant was headed for the jobsite's exit gate after he was let go,...

• Diabetes Drug Avandia Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Attack

  Harold Christian | July 09, 2007 1:42 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  A new study links the Type II Diabetes drug Avandia with a 43% increase in the risk of a heart attack, but the manufacturer of Avandia, Glaxo Smith Klein, continue to deny such claim and claim that such statements are "false and misleading". However, it appears that Avandia, much like Vioxx, was placed on the market without proper warnings for risk of harm to the patient, even though the...

• Health Care Lobby Contests Ability of Jurors to Make Decisions in Medical Malpractice Cases

  Harold Christian | July 02, 2007 1:38 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Even though jurors sit everyday and make decisions on criminal cases on the guilt and innocence of people, deciding who will go to jail and who will remain free, and even make decisions on who will receive a death penalty or be permitted to live, medical malpractice insurance companies do not believe that these same jurors are competent to receive testimony and evidence of medical malpractice...

• Medical Malpractice Crisis Found to be Fiction

  Harold Christian | May 16, 2007 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  A recent article in the WashingtonPost.com site confirms that victims of medical malpractice often suffer without fair and just compensation. The article further establishes that empirical evidence runs contrary to those who contend that we have a medical malpractice crisis in our nation, and would not support the contentions of those such as President Bush who maintain that medical malpractice...

• Windsor Manor Sued in Two Wrongful Death Suits

  Shannon Weidemann | May 02, 2007 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  A California nursing home has been sued twice with wrongful death suits. A husband and wife are both suing the Windsor Manor nursing home in Concord, California. Both of their mothers died while patients at the nursing home in two seperate incidents. One mother died from a fall while she was unsupervised and unassisted and the other died from apiration pneumonia. Attorney Jay P. Renneisen, a...

• Elimination of Contingent Fees: A Threat to Democracy

  Ric Davis | July 26, 2007 11:37 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Contingent fees continue to stir great controversy especially in class action cases, mass torts, and medical malpractice lawsuits. The controversy most recently gained national attention when President Bush banned contingency fees in cases filed by the U.S Government. Federal judges have called contingent fees "grotesque" and plaintiffs claim they will be denied access to the courts without...

• Defective Product May Cause Autism

  Josh Christian | June 12, 2007 1:02 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  The US Court of Federal Claims will hear testimony today that a defective product may cause autism. Several thousand parents of autistic children will be presenting their testimony and evidence to a Federal Claims Court so that they may be compensated for defective vaccinations which have caused the lives of their children to be torn apart by autism. Fortunately there appears to be...

• FDA Warns About Fentanyl Again

  Jenny Albano | December 22, 2007 5:45 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  The FDA warned, for the second time in two years, that improper use of the fentanyl patch, a painkiller, is still claiming lives. Some of the deaths were due to doctors prescribing the patch to the wrong patients. The drug is supposed to be used for chronic pain for patients who are used to narcotics, but some doctors were prescribing the drug to patients with headaches or for post-surgery...