Post on Jul. 30, 2011

As I write this it is Saturday evening, July 30, 2011 and we Americans are watching and listening to our representatives in Washington attempt to come to some resolution on raising the debt ceiling. This has caused me to reflect on how personal injury and medical malpractice plaintiff trial lawyers...

Post on Jul. 15, 2011

One of the most troubling things I have encountered in my practice of law are cases when government employees or people (including children) who are in the custody of the State of Florida get injured or killed. This is because the state, and the companies it contracts with to provide governmental...

Post on Feb. 16, 2011

Court Reporter: Will you raise your right hand? Do you solemnly swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"Witness: I do.Why do we have witnesses in depositions or in trial take an oath? The simple answer seems so obvious, because we want to get...

Post on Jan. 13, 2011

On December 21, 2010, the First District Court of Appeals in Florida ruled against Nationwide Insurance in it’s attempt to circumvent the rule of evidence that prohibits defendants from introducing any evidence of health insurance benefits paid on behalf of the injured party. In Nationwide vs....

Post on Oct. 18, 2010

Back in 2004 the people of Florida voted to amend the Florida Constitution to require all health care providers to give full access to all records made or received as a result of an adverse medical incident that caused or could have caused injury or death to a patient. Since then, health care...