Archive: March 2013

I have no idea whether this Pepsi commercial is real, but it sure is funny.

Sometimes you don’t know from one day to the next who are your friends and who are your opponents. As pointed out in an article in the Austin-American, two groups with long-standing disagreements — doctors and trial lawyers — are teaming up to try to enact stiffer enforcement of a law that requires insurance companies […]

The AP reports Supreme Court justices “appeared troubled Monday over whether to stop deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors that the government says could keep cheaper forms of medicine from American consumers for longer periods of time.” The Justices heard arguments from the DOJ “against what the government calls ‘pay-for-delay’ deals or ‘reverse settlements.’” […]

After handling thousands of Social Security disability claims over more than 20 years, you might think the lawyers and staff at our firm would have grown immune to the frustrations of dealing with the federal government. But we haven’t. We still get upset when the government needlessly drags out the time for decision on a […]

That headline might come as a shock to people who don’t follow medical malpractice news. But an article in the Washington Post details the findings of the journal Surgery. Here are excerpts from the newspaper article: They sound like some of the worst mistakes a surgeon could make: Leaving an instrument inside a patient. Operating […]

This is hands-down the funniest golf video I have ever seen. Enjoy!

My goodness, is this the first step toward a James Bond ejection seat? Apparently Subaru has figured out how to make the moonroof fly off suddenly. I wonder if they’re working now on the ejection mechanism? Cars reports, “Subaru is recalling just 14 model-year 2012 Outback wagons and Legacy sedans due to a problem with […]

In continuing coverage, the Los Angeles Times reports that “surgical errors have attracted widespread attention over the past several years, leading to new laws and policies. In 2007, California started requiring hospitals to report certain errors and fining them if the mistakes killed or seriously injured patients.” Approximately 2,000 patients nationwide report surgeons leaving materials […]

Someone asked me recently whether a driver had to stop when going past a school bus that was headed the opposite direction on a divided road. I thought not, but had to check to be sure. The law in Texas is that if you’re behind a school bus that stops to let a student on […]

Iowa Congressman and attorney Bruce Braley recently sent a letter to the Center for American Progress contesting a report the Center had published. The report mentioned the “problem” of defensive medicine. Congressman Braley deftly rebutted the article in his letter, which is excerpted below. All of this came from an e-mail to me from the […]