Our founding fathers came up with a government composed of three branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Now, I’m sure many of you are reading this (if many read it at all), and you are…
So far in Alabama I don’t know of anybody that’s been foreclosed on that shouldn’t have been, Strange said. That was Luther Strange’s comment in the Birmingham News today discussing the proposed…
Today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch contained a spot on editorial about how the horrible Upper Big Branch mine explosion that killed 29 miners might have been averted had Massey Energy followed basic,…
Since the verdict came in, I have had several discussions with people on facebook and in person. People’s reactions have ranged. Many are outraged at the jury for letting a woman go who appeared to…
Four of Utah’s five largest health insurance companies posted healthy profits last year, with the second smallest of the five, United Health Care of Utah, being the only company posting a loss. The…
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett recently signed so-called Fair Share liability legislation into law. Unfortunately, it is anything but fair to those injured by the negligence of corporate and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
