I received VERY sad news today that a friend in the legal community here in Birmingham had passed, Chris Christ. I have known Chris for approximately fifteen years. We used to work in the same…
Traffic on I-85 / photo credit Jenny Rossbach If you’re heading to the beach early for the Independence Day weekend and your journey includes I-85 South in Orange County, you may want to…
So, it was reported on Reuters today that has agreed to pay $8.5 billion cash to settle n>nearly all of the claims related to the legacy Countrywide-issued first-lien residential mortgage-backed…
It always strikes a chord in our emotions when sports stars die, especially when they die before their time. Lorenzo Charles was 47. He was, of course, the player on the famed Cardiac Pack team who…
Yes, but you can beat your head against a wall too. Yesterday, I had a conversation with a defense attorney on one of our cases. We filed a lawsuit against a nursing home for dropping my client’s…
I love sprouts. They are crunchy, delicious and usually healthy. But not when they come with a side of a rare strain of salmonella. Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a…
A tour bus carrying Asian tourists headed to Flushing, New York rear-ended a flatbed tractor trailer truck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Monday, killing the bus driver, Mr. Bo Hua Tan, and…
Diabetic macular edema (DME) is a condition in which the retina thickens and swells. DME can lead to blindness. A new study of more than 100,000 people which was presented Sunday at the Amercan…
This week the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated drug consumers rights to sue generic drug manufacturers. In reviewing cases brought by consumers of the anti-nausea drug Reglan which is generically sold…
Today’s New York Times discusses the American impuse to assume that the newest innovation is probably the best solution in hip implant and hip replacement surgery. The writer points out what many…
Many of my neighbors in Alamance County suffered major damage in the tornadoes and storms of April 16, 2011. They will be happy to learn that yesterday the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)…
State tort laws have always been just that, state tort laws. States have always had the ability to develop their common law and legislation in ways that they have seen fit. But House Republicans…
