Dog bite cases trouble insurance companies because it is very hard to question the dog about his motives. I say his because I have never had a female dog bite a person. I’m sure it happens all the time, but not in my case files. Dogs can do a lot of damage or a little damage depending on the dog …
Regulators Waking Up To Persistent Negligent Conduct: Med Spas
Regulators recently posted warnings to the national community that many med spas were potentially dangerous to their customers. What is wrong with med spas? Well, if you go in for laser hair removal and there is no doctor monitoring what is going on or training the aestheticians, the potential for harm is higher than it needs to be. Do you …
Regulators Waking Up To Persistent Negligent Conduct: Nursing Home Neglect
The New York Times and Harvard Public Health completed studies which found that hedge fund investments in nursing homes resulted in worse customer service than before the investment. What is wrong with nursing home investments by hedge funds? Well, as a general rule in business, employee payrolls total about 50% of the business’ expenses. If you can reduce employee head …
Last Issue for 2023
Things to do: 1. Fix the Eagles; 2. Lose weight without Ozempic; 3. Finish writing first novel; 4. Grow Business; 5. Hope daughter gets into college. I am guessing that #5 is going to work out okay, but it’s a stressful time for every family with a high school senior looking at going to college.
COURT TRANSCRIPT
In the next week or so, I will be posting the three day bench trial transcript of a recent slip and fall trial I had. It should be on my website. This is a slip and fall case which occurred at a TSA checkpoint at PHL resulting in my client fracturing her knee and requiring surgery. Since both TSA …
Do I try to negotiate cases to keep friends with opposing counsel?
That was a recent question from a client who questioned my valuation of her case. In fact, the opposite is true. On both sides of our cases, it is important that the opposing counsel recognizes that you know what you are doing and are able to pursue a case diligently to the end. We may not love the person on …
The Paper Ceiling Ads and Failure to Diagnose Malpractice
Have you seen these ads trying to build public support for the idea that college degrees are not the only important credential. Regardless what the paper ceiling ads try to tell you or your local tradesperson says, completing college makes an enormous difference in your lifetime income in America. If lifetime income is not your focus, then I appreciate the …
MORE EFFICIENT LAWYERING: THE PRACTICE OF LAW POST-PANDEMIC
The pandemic wrought a lot of changes in the practice of law just like any other business that was affected in a significant way. Interestingly, the nature of litigators is to be averse to changes in how the court system functions. The pandemic familiarized everyone with zoom and it inadvertently made us a more efficient system. For example, I have …
CSI Type Stuff
Jurors always expect every case to have a CSI level of investigatory work on it and it is nearly impossible to measure up to TV, which is of course, Fiction People! It is very, very, time-consuming and unrewarding to try to get text messages from defendant’s phones or to show that someone was texting and driving before a crash. Usually, …
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE / NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ON DOCTORS UNIONIZING
Unfortunately, there is a lot of medical malpractice in our health care system. Usually, it is not the fault of individual practitioners but the fault of the system dropping the ball during handoffs of the patient from one service to another. For sure, there are bad surgeons and poorly trained ER docs, and mistakes made. But, most often, in the …