Austin Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Miscellaneous

This week two respected bloggers filed similar stories about tort reformers who had filed their own personal injury claims. Mike Phelan covered the story of Judge Robert Bork's personal injury suit...

Plaintiffs' attorneys have long bemoaned the fact that the Texas Supreme Court rules in favor of insurance companies and big business in approximately 90% of the cases before it. Now, the realities...

Roanoke personal injury lawyers Dan Frith and Laura Ellerman had a post on their blog this week about problems their clients encounter obtaining medical records, and I wanted to echo their concerns....

I don't normally offer kudos to myself, but I'm pretty proud that today our firm is honored by Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas with the Judge Joe Hart Award. As VLS describes it, the award...

Earlier this week, the US Chamber of Commerce published its annual Lawsuit Climate report, ranking all 50 states for their lawsuit climate. Texas comes in at number 41. While this report seems to be...

When people think of Texas, two of the images often conjured up are pictures of football and pictures of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. But now some of the dangers involved in both of these Texas...

In the last month two additional studies have come out in the medical malpractice context and find that tort reform isn t working In March the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies found that there...

When thinking of spending the weekend out on the lake with friends and family, one can conjure up images of fun and frivolity. But behind all that fun lies real risk of personal injuries. In Austin...

I have a long-held belief that one of the root causes behind the increase in cost of litigation is the occurrence of more and more frivolous defenses asserted by insurance companies and defense lawyers. Today marks my third story about frivolous defenses, and this story comes from a 2006 patent case in Tyler. That case involved a suit against Microsoft. The judge found that Microsoft's...

One of the hot topics in prevention of auto accidents is how to reduce the number of people (particularly teens) who text message while driving. There are numerous statistics, but I find that the video from the news story below shows a lot more than mere numbers. The story follows a Clemson study that puts teen drivers in a driving simulator and asks them to text message while "driving" in...

Earlier, there was an exchange among blogs, including Des Moines Injuryboard member Steve Lombardi, about the value of listserves for attorneys. Instead of rehashing each sides' views, I refer you to my earlier post about our trial lawyer listserves. Steve had another post on the subject recently. And after reading it, I can't say that I disagree with anything he had to say. If I understand...

As stated in a tort reform post earlier, I believe one of the big problems driving the cost of litigation is insurance companies and defense lawyers asserting frivolous defenses and taking frivolous positions. I have griped and moaned about the lack of coverage, but I haven't done anything about it. Now, I'm going to quit being lazy and try to highlight some of these situations.In November of...

There have been numerous stories lately emphasizing that text messaging while driving (an increasingly frequent occurrence) significantly increases the risk of auto accidents. For example, one study finds that a person texting while driving is six times more likely to be involved in a car wreck. And one study finds that texting is the number one distraction for teen drivers. But statistics are...

The "tort reform" movement is one of the most successful marketing jobs in modern day America. And one of the key components of that marketing has been an effort to try and convince the American public that frivlous lawsuits are a big part of the problem. But that's far from the truth.In my experience, the biggest factor in the cost of litigation is frivolous defenses --- insurance companies...

Consumer watchdog organization Texas Watch has released a new report called Justice Delayed that addresses the growing backlog of cases at the Texas Supreme Court. The report made the following findings:The Court took an average of 852 days (2.3 years) to dispose of a case in the 2006-2007 term, an increase of 24% from the 2004-2005 term. Justices took an average 416 days to write an...