Personal Injury Resources

From a good post on problems you might find with patio furniture, the class action suit against a major furniture manufacturer.

At this point, I was really concerned. I did some research online and it appears that JRA Furniture Industries, the company that makes this furniture, has filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy protection. Yes, I said Chapter 7–a total liquidation of assets. Apparently this is due to a class action law suit brought against them based on poor quality (i.e shatter-prone) glass table tops in some furniture they make for Martha Stewart (News article at Consumer Affairs.).

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Trying to keep up with the New York Personal Injury Law blog.

When I started, it was a shoestring operation with no particular goal in mind. I wanted to write, and I had no idea whether anyone would read it. As it turned out, in the slightly less than 5 months that I've been doing this, my posts are read about 400 times a day. It's not as good as Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Law, but I don't think it's too shabby. Is the blawgosphere stagnant? Not for me.

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A look at the Marines, medical residency, and the days when medical malpractice was less evident.

The current system of residency training, like the Marine Corps of the early 1980s, was organized for a different era and a different kind of person. The resident of the 1950s was with few exceptions a young, geeky, unmarried male who’s career was an uninterrupted arc from high school to college to medical school to residency, free from the encumberances of marriage, family, and outside resposibilities that are almost the norm today. Not only that but as medicine was not as highly specialized or even as advanced as it is today a single year of internship was all that was required for a physician to set himself up in private practice. Since medical malpractice suits were almost unheard of and the dangerous interventions that physicians could even attempt were few and mostly the purview of the few specialists, most physicians felt comfortable hanging up their shingles after even this limited training.

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