Posts tagged Sexual Abuse

• Binding Arbitration Bad for Consumers

  Steve Klearman | November 05, 2007 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  There have been recent efforts by federal legislators to impose binding arbitration in a variety of contexts.You may have never heard of Binding Mandatory Arbitration, but that would not prevent this unfair practice, visited on unsuspecting consumers, from destroying your life. Buried in the fine print of many consumer contracts for credit cards, new homes and cars are clauses that stack the...

• U.S. Companies Fighting Fewer Lawsuits

  Steve Klearman | October 30, 2007 12:45 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  More news that suggests that we are less litigious rather than more. This from the American Association of Justice quoting the New York Times:"U.S. companies are getting hit with fewer new lawsuits and initiating less litigation, according to a survey released on Monday. The poll of in-house law departments suggests corporate litigation may have slowed, although big companies still find...

• AB 483 Revises Procedures on Execution of Property

  Steve Klearman | October 29, 2007 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Assembly Bill No. 483 dated March 20, 2007 revises Nevada law regarding the execution of property and wages from a judgment debtor. The bill makes personal property whose total value does not exceed $1,000.00 exempt from execution. It also exempts tax refunds from federal earned income credit or a similar state law from being garnished. The original bill includes the proper forms for a notice of...

• New Legislation on Sealing Records

  Steve Klearman | October 25, 2007 12:34 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  This is more of my continuing series on new legislation in Nevada.Assembly Bill 519 dated March 23, 2007 prohibits the district court from sealing a public record unless certain circumstances are met. For example, sealing the records may not have the purpose of concealing a public hazard and may not create a state of imminent danger to the public. Before sealing a public record, the court also...

• Child and Adult Care Facilites Subject to New Disclosure

  Steve Klearman | October 08, 2007 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Nevada law requires that child and adult care facilities be licensed and follow certain rules and regulations. Assembly Bill No. 283 adds new requirements to this law. Chapter 432A of NRS now requires that child and adult care facilities maintain and provide certain information to parents, guardians or legal representatives. New requirements also make failure to comply grounds for revocation of...

• Personal Email May Be Discoverable

  Steve Klearman | September 17, 2007 8:21 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  This entry was sent to me today by Scott Roseland at CyberControls.net:Around the same time that a number of White House staff members were trying to extricate themselves from the probing questions of certain congressional inquiries about personal e-mail accounts being used to allegedly bypass the official government provided e-mail service, a very interesting survey was being released called,...

• Stem Cell Research in Cardiology

  Steve Klearman | August 29, 2007 10:50 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Stem cell will create countless new legal issues in coming years. The following article from Reuters, taken from Yahoo News, describes recent developments in stem cell research in cardiology: By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A nutritious cocktail helped human embryonic stem cells thrive and repair the damaged hearts of rats, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday....

• A Nation in Pain or Addiction?

  Steve Klearman | August 20, 2007 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Injury attorneys have long been aware of America's increasing problem with prescription pain medicines and the article below, pulled off Yahoo News this morning, confirms that a new national dialogue on this subject is in order. Legal addiction has become a major problem for the United States:MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - People in the United States are living in a world of pain and they are popping...

• More Fun with Allstate

  Steve Klearman | August 16, 2007 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Wrongful Death
  

  As you may have seen in earlier blogs, Allstate's Nevada Counsel has got himself into a lot of trouble with the Nevada Supreme Court and a number of District Courts and has incurred high sanctions. I received this email update from Peter Chase Neumann, one of the attorneys keeping the heat on Allstate:In the wrongful death case of Duncan Estate vs. Peri and Stratton, the Trial Court, Dept 4,...

• China Deserves the Scrutiny

  Steve Klearman | July 16, 2007 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  There's a headline on Yahoo News today: China is blaming the media for inflating concerns about product safety (rather ironic on the wake of the execution of the minister in charge of drug safety).I lived in Taiwan for several years and travelled extensively through China. It is, without doubt, one of the most polluted countries in the world.China deserves the blame. They endanger the entire...