Hiring a personal injury lawyer can be a crap shoot. Ads for injury lawyers are all over the TV and internet, but people who choose an injury attorney without carefully researching the lawyer’s credentials and...
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We all know we would not be here without our mothers, and “Mother Earth” and “Mother Nature” are referred to without much thought to the many concrete contributions of women throughout history. The month of March...
Hockey Puck vs. Foul Ball – Legal Remedies for Injured Spectators?
January 31, 2013
Our last post featured a discussion of “Assumption of Risk”. In terms of the fans at a sporting event, this doctrine holds that a spectator knows, fully understands, and assumes the risk inherent in watching a...
Foul ball, Loose puck, Flying bat — Who is to Blame?
January 29, 2013
Here is an interesting hypothetical case which, unfortunately, sometimes really happens: You are watching a sporting event when something comes flying into the stands. It could be a puck at an ice arena, a foul ball at a...
Steroid Spine Injections Cause Illness and Death
October 5, 2012
As the result of contamination, four people are dead after getting steroid injections into their spinal cords. This outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to contaminated spinal steroid injections in 5 states; ...