Oregon is dispensing poetic justice to prod more motorists to purchase required insurance coverage. A 1999 law denies "pain and suffering" damages to motorists who do not have automobile insurance. Florida should take a closer look at the Oregon statute to see if it can improve the uninsured motorist situation on its highways. Way to go, Oregon! Blogger M Valentine posts an article that...
Founded in 1977, Sheller, P.C. is a law firm committed to the aggressive and passionate representation of its clients. One of the largest plaintiff's personal injury and class action law firms in the Eastern United States, we maintain a national practice concentrating in areas of consumer fraud, drug product and medical device liability, medical malpractice, toxic tort and complex catastrophic...
Jamie Sheller currently handles and supervises an extensive caseload including medical malpractice, medical device, and drug product liability cases, complex product liability cases, Multi-District Litigation and Class Action Litigation for breast implant, tobacco, fen-phen and Norplant, as well as general personal injury cases. She works on all aspects of the litigation from initial client...
For the third consecutive year, Jeff has been named a Texas Super Lawyer by the publishers of Law & Politics magazine and Texas Monthly magazine. Jeff is listed as one of the state's top personal injury attorneys in Texas Monthly magazine and Texas Super Lawyers magazine, a publication co-produced by the publishers of Texas Monthly and Law & Politics Media Inc. Among his other honors, Jeff has...
Steven J. Klearman is the Managing Shareholder of Steven J. Klearman & Associates, a civil litigation law firm located in Reno, Nevada. Steve practices primarily in the area of civil litigation, with an emphasis on injury law and medical malpractice. Steve was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied as a fellowship student of Mandarin Chinese in Taipei, Taiwan before he received...
Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a former member of the paparazzi, supports the new California law permitting victims of assaults by paparazzi to seek punitive damages and a court order stripping the photographer of any proceeds from pictures taken during the assault. He provides insight into a sleezy world that demeans us all.Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a former member of the paparazzi, supports the new...
If you are going to one day hear what a jury is going to say about your case it may be a good idea for you to learn about group polarization. Juries have been shown to polarize; in experimental settings, juries generate punitive damage awards that are systematically higher than the predeliberation median of jurors. Whether you are a litigant or an attoney, if you are going to hear one day what...
Taking the big, yellow bus to school has long been touted as the best way to keep our children safe. But is it? When a minor school bus accident results in a head injury the debate over the need for seat belts on school buses is on again. Taking the big, yellow bus to school has long been touted as the best way to keep our children safe. But is it? Read the well-researched article at...
Robot-assisted surgery is here. Even if it is an improvement over human surgical techniques, how much information do patients need before their consent to the use of a robot is truly informed consent? Is there something different about a surgeon's decision to perform robot-assisted surgery?They may have a terrible bedside manner but, apparently, they can be terrific in the operating room. ...
The Impact Rule in Floida needs to be buried. It is a doctrine that makes no sense and is preventing compensation of some very real, albeit, emotional inuries. The Impact Rule: before a plaintiff can recover damages for emotional distress caused by negligence, the distress must flow from physical injuries the plaintiff sustained in an impact. The Impact Rule in Floida, created by the courts,...