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Discussion of personal injury law and legal issues, with focus on Alabama.

Author: Thomas J. Methvin, who edits this blawg, is an Alabama lawyer.

Blawg Related Categories: Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • States • Alabama • Legal Information

Recent Posts from Mobile Personal Injury Lawyer

What Are Family Values?
The red states in the Southeast and parts of the West (I guess that is just about all of them) lead the country in poverty levels and divorce, infant mortality, obesity and teen pregnancy rates.…
eVoting: It could be worse...it's worse.
Recording votes electronically is a bad idea. I take that back. It's a horrible, no good, awfully rotten idea. And there is no way to make it better. Unlike a physical record, altered data in…
Placebo Prescribing: a suprisingly common lie and its risk
National Public Radio reported today that prescription of placebos by American doctors may be a common practice. Placebos are a form of off label use where the medicine is not shown to treat a patient's…
Internet con artists seek to prey on uneasy consumers amid financial crisis
In response to the financial crisis the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has temporarily raised its coverage on bank and credit union accounts to $250,000. This attempt to buttress consumer confidence was enabled by a…
Off Label Uses of Prescription Drugs
Off label use is a drug is prescribed for a purpose, at a dose, or through a route of administration that has not been approved by the FDA. After clinical testing the FDA approves drugs…
Durogesic Patch - Informed Consent
We represent a lady who has experienced brain damage as the result of inappropriate prescription of a Durogesic Patch. She had one day surgery and was sent home wearing a Durogesic Patch. The manufacturer’s warns…
The Need for Greater Protection for US Nursing Home Patients
Many of our nation's elderly have spent their entire lives supporting this county, be it through their service, their investment, their guidance, or any other fathomable form of aid, and yet these individuals are finding…
Using Technology to Market Your Law Firm
Everyone has undoubtedly witnessed the tremendous rise in the day-to-day use of electronic information devices. Most individuals no longer have the patience to wait even until they get home to Google for information about a…
Apology Laws
Surfing the internet a few weekends ago I came across this article from a Dallas based plaintiffs firm discussing new measures state legislatures are taking to curb medical malpractice payouts. The apology laws, as they…
What Are Emotional Distress Damages? - Part 1
A friend of mine recently told me that he had read about a jury awarding emotional distress damages in favor of a husband and wife whose home was improperly wired by an electrical contractor and,…