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• Politics and Drugs

  Steve Klearman | April 03, 2006 11:45 AM | 1 CommentReno, NV

  This set of observations come from the Greedy Trial Lawyer blog at http://www.greedytriallawyer.com. I reproduce this here in an attempt to occasionally touch upon the unsavory relationship between our pharmaceutical companies and our politicians:In the closing days of the 2005 legislative year, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the White House fail to obtain the needed support for a...

• Nearly Half a Billion Paid By Religious Institutions in Sex Cases

  Steve Klearman | March 31, 2006 9:13 AM | 1 CommentReno, NV

  The Reno Gazette Journal reports today that dioceses and religious institutions paid almost $400 million in settlements for claims in 2005, according to a survey released Thursday by Roman Catholic officials. The latest nationwide figures were released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Office of Child and Youth Protection. The figures came from its third annual audit of dioceses...

• Insurance Companies Blame Lawyers for Bad Earnings

  Steve Klearman | March 24, 2006 7:46 AM | 1 CommentReno, NV

  Medical malpractice insurance companies pushed hard on tort reform after they lost money (along with everyone else) in the stock market a few years back.Jordan Margolis, a Chicago personal injury lawyer, recently reported on his blog, that new studies show that we are not in a medical malpractice insurance crisis now.Magolis notes: Just as consumer rights organizations predicted, the so-called...

• When Doctors Are Not Listening

  Steve Klearman | March 24, 2006 7:25 AM | 1 CommentReno, NV

  I like to tell my injury clients that their doctors are the most important witnesses in their cases.When a case is large or complex, I tell my clients that we can hire expert doctors, but treating doctors tend to have greater credibility with a jury since they 1) are not paid to provide opinions (even though most demand payment to testify); and 2) have actual "hands-on" contact with the...

• Nevada Medical Malpractice Premiums Still High

  Steve Klearman | March 22, 2006 12:39 PM | 1 CommentReno, NV

  Who would have thought it? The insurance companies lobbied ferociously and spent millions lying to voters about the necessity of medical malpractice reform (the so-called "Keep Out Doctors in Nevada" initiative), and over a year later, medical malpractice premiums have not gone down in any meaningful way.In a story two weeks ago by the Reno-Gazette Journal and other newspapers, we learned what...

• Toyota and Lexus floor mats causing unintended acceleration

  Steve Klearman | November 24, 2009 4:54 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  On September 29, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration alerted consumers about Toyota and Lexus vehicles experiencing unintended acceleration due to the accelerator becoming...

• FDA Announces Safe Use Initiative

  Steve Klearman | November 18, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  On November 4, 2009, the FDA introduced its Safe Use Initiative, an effort to collaborate with the health care field to reduce the preventable harm resulting from medication use and misuse. The...

• Beware of Unapproved H1N1 Products

  Steve Klearman | November 17, 2009 10:53 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  The FDA urges caution when searching for H1N1 products on the internet because many unapproved H1N1 products purport to prevent, diagnose, or treat H1N1. The FDA warns consumers of the potential...

• Nevada Supreme Court Reviews Dram Shop Liability

  Steve Klearman | November 10, 2009 1:29 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  The Nevada Supreme Court addressed the liability of a hotel for injuries occurring in an automobile accident after evicting intoxicated persons from the hotel premises in Rodriguez v. Primadonna...

• Nevada Supreme Court Rejects Application of Anti-Stacking Rules for Concurrent Negligence

  Steve Klearman | November 05, 2009 3:16 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  In Delgado v. American Family Ins. Group, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 44 (October 1, 2009), the Nevada Supreme Court was faced with the question of whether the passenger in an automobile who is injured by...