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Milk-a-holics United
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 11th, 2010
When we heard this one we had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn’t an April Fools prank . . . fasten your seat belts. From the New York Post:
Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, “milkaholic” baby in its latest commercial — who happens to be named Lindsay — was modeled after her. And she wants $100 million for her pain and suffering, The Post has learned.
Have Suit Will Travel - Lose Coat Will Sue
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 10th, 2010
What do you do if you’re a Texas personal injury lawyer who forgets his $800 leather jacket at an airport when boarding a flight?
Since you can afford an $800 jacket and you’re a personal injury lawyer you could probably afford to buy a new one.
Or since you make your living bringing personal injury lawsuits you could threaten . . . to sue the city where the airport is located, the concession where you think you left it and the airline!
That’s what William Ogletree, a Houston trial lawyer chose. The Ogletree case is just one more example of lack of personal responsibility that runs rampant these days. For more of the gory details read this article from the Southeast Texas Record.
In Michigan retroactivity risk
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 9th, 2009
AJP President recently penned this editorial in the Detroit News.
Dan shines the spotlight on the predatory trial lawyers who would not only choke Michigan’s health care and bio science sectors but do so retroactively.
The plaintiff lawyer plan is to make it easier for trial lawyers to file abusive lawsuits against pharmaceutical and bioscience companies — not to mention doctors, nurses and pharmacists — even when they strictly follow U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules.
Aren’t more job killing lawsuits the last thing a state like Michigan needs right now?
Selling out doctors to pay off trial lawyers
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 4th, 2009
By NEWT GINGRICH & WAYNE OLIVER | 9/3/09 2:26 PM EDT
Civil justice reform, which is sometimes referred to as “tort reform,” is not addressed in any health reform bill now being considered by Congress. As a matter of fact, civil justice reform is rarely being discussed even though it should be a critical component of every discussion and in every legitimate health reform bill.
Physicians understand its importance. And so do the American people. Many are beginning to wonder why it’s not in any bill.
Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, at a town hall meeting in Virginia last week said, “Tort reform is not in the bill because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers. And, that is the plain and simple truth.”
Dems’ Ace in the Hole on Health Care: Tort Reform
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on August 19th, 2009
Real Clear Politics
By Bob Beckel
“It will be tough to make some of these changes if doctors feel like they’re looking over their shoulders for fear of lawsuits… some doctors may feel the need to order more tests and treatments to avoid being legally vulnerable.” (President Obama, American Medical Association June 2009).
“Anyone who denies there is a crisis in medical malpractice is probably a trial lawyer.” (Barack Obama 1996 Illinois State Senate race).
The first two statements are right on Mr. President, reconsidering the third may well save healthcare reform.
Trial Lawyer Medicare Bonanza Averted — For Now
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on August 11th, 2009
THE AMERICAN - The Journal of the American Enterprise Institute
When the bill got to the House Ways and Means Committee on July 16, it contained an especially audacious and egregious provision that could only be called a “trial lawyer earmark.” The 10-page measure would “open the door to massive liability that is neither in the public’s interest nor in the interest of the American healthcare system,” said Phil Goldberg, a lawyer who formerly served on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee and describes himself as a “lifelong Democrat.” Read the rest of this entry »