Articles in Channel: Personal Injury & Medical Law

Switching Sides And Finding Your Soul

September 06, 2010 14:34

I used to be a cruise line defense lawyer.  In 1996, I tried my last defense case, for Dolphin Cruise Lines.  The cruise line was sued by a crew member who slipped and fell on a wet floor of a photography room on the S/S Oceanbreeze.  He...

Harrah's Sanctioned for Cheating in Casino Litigation

September 06, 2010 14:24

In May I posted here about U.S. District Judge Mills' Order in the Maggette v. BL wrongful death case. The case involved the crash of a charter bus on its way to a Harrah's property in Tunica. BL is owned by Harrah's Gaming. Harrah's owns numerous casino properties all over the...

#MaritimeMonday - Top Maritime Twitters - September 6, 2010

September 06, 2010 14:15

Our first #MaritimeMonday last week was a hit with #MaritimeMonday - Top 20 Maritime Twitters featuring what I think are best maritime experts twittering today.  We received some really nice "thank yous" from @Amver, @CruiseVictims, @Itajaipraticos,...

Call for Papers: legal and ethical questions in neuroscience and robotics

Adam J. Kolber
September 06, 2010 13:37

The Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) is proud to announce the upcoming TILTing Perspectives 2011 conference entitled "Technologies on the stand: legal and ethical questions in neuroscience and robotics" The conference will be held at Tilburg University...

Are there too many lawyers or too many people with power using law to hide the truth?

Steve Lombardi
September 06, 2010 12:21

Yes, I'm posting again. I was sleeping but then then I realized life was happening without me and I had to get up and write. Today is all about law school. The University Of Iowa College Of Law to be exact. A great law school with a fine reputation and some lousy contractors hired to replace the...

Worker at Iowa's law school falls and dies: Fall Protection?

Steve Lombardi
September 06, 2010 12:00

A 49-year-old worker fell and died last Wednesday while working on the U of I Boyd Law Building in Iowa City. I was lucky enough during my 3 years at Iowa to have met Willard Boyd, the President whose name graces the law school.  But what happened that allowed tom Fosdick, a 49-year-old man...

Pharma Cases Dominate New USPTO Obviousness Examination Guidelines

September 06, 2010 08:00

On September 1, 2010 the USPTO issued an update to the Obviousness Examination Guidelines that were promulgated after the Supreme Court's 2007 KSR decision. The new Guidelines are intended to supplement, not replace, the 2007 Guidelines, and extract teaching points from Federal Circuit...

Modular system

September 06, 2010 07:58

The specialty food service is built on the collective basis of modular systems. Management of small business, is one of them, and economic development of the last years, based on exports and foreign investment, put each Chilean company in competition with their counterparts worldwide demand...

Fighting Mexico's Drug Cartels By Funding A Financial Intelligence Unit

September 06, 2010 05:00

An April 20, 2010 statement from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona memorializes the U.S. Department of Justice strategy for fighting the scourge of Mexico's drug cartels.  The April 20th statement indicates that the Department of Justice concentrates on: gathering intelligence...

Construction Work Sites and Bicycles in Japan

September 06, 2010 02:40

We’ve returned from Japan and notice other differences concerning safety besides the seat belt requirement in motor buses.  For one thing, at every construction site there was one and sometimes two men in official looking outfits that somewhat resembled police uniforms, wearing helmets, s...