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• Unemployment Skyrockets: “U.S. now beating European unemployment rates”

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 633
  Unemployment is now higher in the U.S. than in Europe ,  reports the Washington Post .  “The official U.S. unemployment rate, reported last Friday, now stands at 10.2 percent,” compared to “9.7 percent” in Europe.   This is the highest rate in more than 26 years, and marks a huge change from the recent ...
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• There is No Need for More Medical Malpractice Tort Reform

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 131
  Currently tort reform laws exist in nearly every state. These laws make it more different for average people who have endured medical error to sue those responsible. It is evident that the tort reform movement was created and funded by insurance companies and the medical profession and backed by conservative ...
  17 hours ago

• Does the Health-Care Bill Undo Texas Tort Reform?

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 562
  David Frum thinks so , citing Section 2531(4)b of the bill. This is one of many provisions that cannot be allowed to make it through the Senate. That brings us to an interesting point: what’s the best strategy for eliminating it? The Republicans seem to be intent on stonewalling, as they did in the House. The ...
  21 hours ago

• It’s only dead if you kill it, moron!

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 496
  ( CBS ) Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the health care bill passed last night by the House of Representatives is “dead on arrival to the Senate.” Original DVD cover Graham argued that the House bill was “written for liberals, by liberals. “Just look at how it passed; it passed 220 to 215. ...
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• Judge Rules Web Commenter Will Be Unmasked to Mom of Criticized Teen

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  An Illinois judge has decided that an anonymous commenter on a newspaper website will be unmasked, even though the mother of a teen about whom "Hipcheck16" allegedly made "deeply disturbing" comments hasnt yet decided whether to sue over the posting. The mother, Lisa Stone, is a trustee of Buffalo Grove in suburban ...
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• Maybe a New Day for Doctors’ Pay

  
  Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog — Authority: 425
  Robert H. Frank, an economist at Cornell University, has written an interesting article for the New York Times regarding money earned by physicians. The gistof the article (rather densely written as you would expect from aprofessor of economics) is that one reason health care costs are sohigh is that doctors are paid ...
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• Securities Law - Global Claiming - Are US Judgments Actually Binding

  
  GlobalTort — Authority: 129
  So, where and when are US tort and securities judgments binding on persons who live outside the US, and why should does it matter? Lets start with the latter question - why does it matter. Suppose, for example, a US bankrupcty court purports to enter a global injunction that bars future asbestos claims that anyone in ...
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• BڊW

  
  slabbed — Authority: 480
  Anyone else remember the McDonalds Hot Coffee case ? Marbury v. Madison, Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade? Ask anyone in the U.S. or abroad and they will likely tell you about a woman who spilled coffee on herself and collected millions of dollars. The McDonald’s coffee case became the poster child for ...
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• Is Tort Reform a Remedy or a Red Herring?

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 131
  In the ongoing debate over health care reform, critics are increasingly citing the lack of tort reform as a major deficiency of the current proposals floating around Congress. Republicans are using conservatives to seek tort reform to shield corporate malefactors from full accountability for their wrongdoing. ...
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• "Tort Reform" Is a Desperate Distraction From Health Care Debate

  
  Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog — Authority: 425
  This article was written for the Huffington Post by Anthony Tarricone, president of the American Association for Justice. Here are excerpts: Thoseopposed to real health care reform are flailing to come up with real,alternative solutions to our current crisis. With all the talk of deathpanels, government takeovers, ...
  3 days ago

• House Democrats on the Fence for Health Vote

  
  Conservative Thoughts — Authority: 475
  I found this article from the Republican Whip office site, in going through it I sorted out the reasons why they are going to hold things up.   I also went to each Representatives site to see what they say, some had issued press releases sometime today and some were very unclear.  I thought I would share with you ...
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• Exploding Text-Harrassment Cases Create Pitfalls for Defense Attorneys

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  As supervisors increasingly make objectionable comments to employees via text messages, resulting harassment cases over after-hours comments no longer are based simply on "he said, she said" evidence. But this seeming bonanza of proof for plaintiffs lawyers is surrounded by potential pitfalls for defense attorneys, ...
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• Medical Malpractice in Health Care Debate

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 131
  One doctor appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation to discuss his article on medical malpractice reform. He pointed out that medical malpractice is a patients’ rights issue as well as a doctor’s issue. He believes that medical malpractice caps leave an injured victim with very little recourse because the cost ...
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• Rothstein Firm Is Running on Fumes, Newspaper Says

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  Despite an effort by partner and president Stuart Rosenfeldt to create a new law firm out of the apparent ashes of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, the well-known Fort Lauderdale, Fla., law firm is running on fumes. After stunning revelations of alleged misconduct by a top partner, the departure of some other lawyers, a ...
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• ‘Star Associate’ Alleges Breakdown Over Work Conditions, Sues Sedgwick & Partner

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  A former associate in the New York office of Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold has filed a disability discrimination suit against the firm and an a partner he alleges was abusive, contending that he was driven to a breakdown with overwork and mistreatment and then abruptly fired when he had recovered and was ready to ...
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• Update on Trial Lawyer Protection in Health Care Bill

  
  American Courthouse — Authority: 113
  Earlier this week I reported on the effort underway in Congress to punish states that have solved the medical liability crisis by enacting caps on non-economic damages.  Now, Congressman Henry Cuellar – a Blue Dog Democrat from Texas – won a “pre-emption” provision that would allow states with caps already on ...
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• No to Tort Reform, Part 2: What About the Seventh Amendment?

  
  Common Sense Political Thought — Authority: 139
  Cross-posted from PFB Blog . Conservatives love the Constitution, and specifically the Bill of Rights. While liberals may take an expansive view of the Constitution’s terms, or subscribe to the idea of a “living Constitution,” conservatives recognize that a Constitution that does not say what it means, or mean ...
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• No Tort Reform Part 2: What About the Seventh Amendment?

  
  PFB Blog — Authority: 113
  Cross-posted at CSPT . Conservatives love the Constitution, and specifically the Bill of Rights. While liberals may take an expansive view of the Constitution’s terms, or subscribe to the idea of a “living Constitution,” conservatives recognize that a Constitution that does not say what it means, or mean what ...
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• Critically Sick Healthcare – ‘Fixed’ Politically

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  Suppose that health care providers handled sick patients the same way that our so-called Representatives are treating a sick system named healthcare. Below are examples medical care followed in italics by analogous Congressional ‘treatment’ of healthcare. You go to your primary doctor complaining of pain in your ...
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• Update on Toyotas Efforts to Use the MDL to Control the Situation as to Inside Counsel and Documents

  
  GlobalTort — Authority: 129
  Here is a Corporate Counsel that provides an update on and links to documents regarding Toyotas issues with its former inside counsel who claims that documents were wrongfully destroyed regarding alleged defects in cars.
  4 days ago

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