- Patent trolls are thriving, one study finds [271 Patent Blog, The Prior Art, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, PDF]
- One plaintiff’s lawyer’s view: Did Rep. John Murtha Die From Medical Malpractice? [Turkewitz]
- “Rubber stamps for two [class action] settlements” [Ted Frank, Center for Class Action Fairness, AOL and Yahoo cases]
- Little League and baseball bats: “America’s favorite pastime collides with favorite pastime of personal injury lawyers” [Bob Dorigo Jones]
- States push home day-care providers into unions [Stossel]
- U.K.: “Cardiologist will fight libel case ‘to defend free speech’” [Times Online] More on British libel tourism: Frances Gibb, Times Online (“It’s official – London is the libel capital of the world” ), Citizen Media Law, Gordon Crovitz/WSJ, N.Y. Times.
- From a half-year back, but missed then: FBI says Miami lawyer bought stolen hospital records for purposes of soliciting patients [HIPAA Blog, Ambrogi/Legal Blog Watch]
- Would-be Green Police can be found in Cambridge, Mass., not just Super Bowl ads [Peter Wilson, American Thinker via Graham]
Filed under: baseball, baseball bats, chasing clients, environment, HIPAA, hospitals, labor unions, libel slander and defamation, Little League, Massachusetts, medical malpractice, patent trolls, Ted Frank, United Kingdom
6 Comments
That creeped out story about Cambridge, MA’s greening can be summed up thusly: We therefore declare ourselves Marxists and demand all dissenters go away, join us, or risk unimaginable sanctions.
When it’s even arguably “medical malpractice” that a 77-year-old Congressman under the care of the best doctors in the country dies from a known risk of a complicated micro-surgical procedure, it says something about how doctors are held to different standards than attorneys when it comes to malpractice.
Ted,
I agree completely. Somehow we need to end the conflation of an adverse outcome with medical malpractice or even negligence.
I’ve noticed recently that there’s a commercial for some law firm that’s doing a “John Edwards” and looking for people whose children were had a birth injury resulting in CP.
I have a 19 year old special needs daughter and never even thought to sue anyone over it. She is who she is. And we love her dearly.
I also have a very young daughter with serious speech and fine motor skill problems. Yet, we have never sued the doctor who delivered her. She is who she is, as difficult as that is sometimes.
Blessing on you and your wife and your beautiful daughter Doug.
Make one wonder whether lifting the ban on advertising by lawyers was, like breaking up AT&T years back, one fo the worst ideas to come along….Does anyone know how much TV advertising is done by lawyers for such as “mesothelioma”, “asbestos”, even “Enron”-type stuff, and so on? (I mean as a percentage of ad time bought, not necessarily the dollar amount.)