Mobile Personal Injury Lawyer
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
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Disaster Preparation - From An Attorney's Perspective
Everyone on the Gulf coast today is watching the news or accessing their favorite weather site. Fortunately, this storm will be passing over cool water before it hits land and thus will lose a good…
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Caps on Damages Make No Sense
The Republican proposal on health care reform has provisions to limit compensation for non-economic injuries to persons injured or killed as the result of medical malpractice including residents of nursing home who are neglected or…
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Why Can't I Recover Everything I Lost?
I settled a case recently right before jury selection. It was a legal malpractice case. My client had lost a good bit of money because the lawyer representing him in a real estate transaction did…
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Get Off the Phone
Every year, well really every month for that matter, our cell phones appear to be able to perform more and more functions. They truly have become computers in the palm of our hand connecting us…
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Qui Tam and Health Care Savings
A south Texas hospital agreed to pay $27.5 million to settle a qui tam suit. San Antonio Express-News (10/31, Brezovsky). The whistleblower got $5.5 million for his trouble and the taxpayers got the rest! Patients…
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Contact You Congressman to Pass the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act
Last January I wrote a blog on the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act (then Senate Bill . 2838 and now Senate Bill 512) The last report from Congress is that the bill was referred…
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The Consumer's Role in the Nursing Home/Healthcare Reform Battle
Health care reform is the big issue today- as it should be. But how will it affect our elderly in nursing homes? Nursing home owners say they are looking at $16 billion dollars in cuts…
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Safe Sidewalks
8 Schools in the Mobile, Alabama, area are finally getting safe sidewalks around their campuses. The cost of this federally funded project was just over one million dollars. While the percentage of students who walk…
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AHA Advocates substituting good ole boys for juries
The American Hospital Association is advancing a bizarre version of malpractice “reform”. It advocates substituting a local panel of experts appointed by state authorities for juries. So the state medical association would appoint doctors in…
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Wills For Heroes
Last Wednesday, my firm and another lawyer went over to the local Sherriff's office and drafted 17 wills, durable powers of attorney and advanced healthcare directives for first responders. This was the second year that…