Way back in February of 1992, an elderly woman named Stella Liebeck burned herself on McDonald’s hot coffee while holding the cup between her legs when she was driving, which was a highly offensive form of jackpot justice. She was the undeserving recipient of the most outrageous variety of lawsuit lottery winnings the ...
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This is BIG news for the plaintiffs’ personal injury and medical malpractice bar in Florida. Many Florida plaintiffs’ personal injury and medical malpractice attorneys have been waiting on the edge of their seat for this Florida Supreme Court decision (Estate of McCall v. U.S.).
In ...
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As an Orlando personal injury attorney, I am often drawn into debates about so-called “frivolous” lawsuits. During Part I of this article, I shared my opinion regarding whether filed lawsuits are often frivolous. Now I want to discuss some little known facts about thousands of cases that never reach the courthouse doors because they are negotiated and settled pre-suit.
As an Orlando personal injury attorney, I sometimes encounter those who wonder whether personal injury attorneys file so-called “frivolous” lawsuits on a regular basis. Someone posed that question to me recently online, so I want to give my answer.
As an Orlando personal injury attorney, one of the things that clients frequently do not understand is why insurance companies do not pay auto accident claims more quickly.
In very rare auto accident cases, insurance companies will pay auto accident claims ...
This is the second post in a series regarding personal injury settlement mill law firms. In the first post, I provided a general overview of how settlement mill law firms operate. Very generally speaking, settlement mills are personal injury law ...
In Part I of this article, I discussed the huge numbers of women potentially impacted by transvaginal mesh products, which could lead some of those women to suffer adverse complications and ultimately may need to file a lawsuit to at ...
Transvaginal mesh lawsuits have been filed by the thousands. When I first heard of these devices, they sounded foreign, so I initially assumed that they would not impact a large number of women. But, I was very wrong. Transvaginal mesh devices have seriously injured thousands of women across the country, often impacting ...
Before I get into the specifics of GranuFlo, and the manufacturer Fresenius, you should know that I am a Florida attorney who is passionately opposed to nearly the entire pharmaceutical industry because I strongly believe that far too many drugs and medical devices are ...
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Since I am an Orlando personal injury attorney, I have had many clients who were victims in accidents caused by distracted driving. Distracted driving includes all sorts of distractions, such as texting, eating food, and even talking on a bluetooth (hands free) phone ...
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