Legal Blog - Brett A. Burlison
The blog provides a running commentary on law, society, and occasionally politics. It focuses on legal matters and issues that are important to trial lawyers and the legal community, injury victims, and individuals concerned about consumers’ rights.
Author: Brett A. Burlison is a solo practitioner with offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto, Calif.
Blawg Related Categories: Consumer Law • Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • Product Liability Law • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Legal Blog - Brett A. Burlison
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San Francisco Injury Attorney Explains Product Liability Law
Product liability law deals with when a manufacturer can be held responsible for the harm caused by a defective product. What makes a product defective, when is a product found to be defective, and what…
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Tips For Direct Exam By San Francisco Injury Attorney Brett Burlison
Direct examination at trial is often overlooked because it is not thought of as exciting or glamorous. There is no better opportunity, however, to sell your case and convey the harm your client has suffered…
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Personal Injury Victim Loses Punitive Damage Award Against Pfizer
Personal injury plaintiff Donna Scroggin filed a lawsuit against the drug maker Pfizer Inc. asserting that Pfizer’s hormone-replacement drugs helped to cause her cancer. A jury awarded Scroggin $2.7 million in actual damages and over…
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Personal Injury Victim Battles Tobacco Giant For Jury’s Verdict
As reported by the Statesman Journal, in 2002, the family of Michelle Schwarz, who died of lung cancer due to smoking, obtained a multi-million dollar jury verdict in a personal injury case against Philip Morris. …
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Harmful Levels Of BPA Found In Food
BPA, or Bisphenol A, is a plastic hardener and of great concern to many consumer protection groups. In fact, many retailers here in San Francisco offer BPA free products and containers. Well, today those groups…
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Cato Institute Backs What San Francisco Injury Attorneys Already Know: Damage Caps Harm Patients
The Cato Institute’s Professor Shirley Svorny presents in an Forbes Magazine op-ed piece that capping the damage awards for noneconomic and punitive damages would result in patients and injury victims losing the benefit of penalties…
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Whistle-blower Lawsuit Brings About $27.5 Million Settlement By Hospital Accused of Kickbacks
McAllen-based South Texas Health Systems has agreed to pay $27.5 million to settle allegations by the Department of Justice that it provided kickbacks to doctors for referring patients to hospitals within its system, according to…
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San Francisco Trucking Accident Lawsuit Tips
When Someone is injured in a trucking accident unfortunately a personal injury lawsuit is often necessary. And during the course of the lawsuit or case much of the focus in the case tends to be…
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Attorney’s Allegations May Force Open Personal Injury Lawsuits
A former in-house attorney for Toyota has asserted in court papers filed last week the automaker harassed, intimidated, and defamed him for trying to correct wrongdoing by the automaker (previously reported on here on Legal…
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Is the California Supreme Court Aiding Westlaw and Lexis In Copyright Violations?
SAN FRANCISCO - The answer is that it appears some folks think so. The Daily Journal reports today that attorney Ed Connor from Irvine complained over three months ago to the Court when he learned…