The New York Times (5/5, D5, Rabin) reports that dozens of women are suing the maker of [a] vaginal sling, called ObTape for complications they claim are associated with the product. The product…
They are all injured – my clients. Their lives have been visited by misfortune. Sometimes their house is falling down or some variation of that theme. Sometimes an insurance adjuster working for a…
Health care costs are rising; however, medical malpractice litigation has nothing to do with it. According to the Congressional Budget Office, medical malpractice amounted to less than 2 percent of…
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects the privacy of your health information. But it also protects your rights to continue your health insurance as you or a spouse…
The Wall Street Journal (5/2, A3, Weisman, Bravin) reported, The battle to influence the next Supreme Court pick began Friday as President Barack Obama announced that Justice David Souter would…
Not true! Not True! Not True! How many times have you read that the number of lawsuits is skyrocketing in the Honolulu newspapers? How many times have you heard a TV news reporter say this? The…
Think about tort reform in the context of medical negligence – misdiagnosis of traumatic brain injury – on a national basis. It happens everywhere from Honolulu to Hilo to Washington, D.C. Why don’t…
“It is no secret that, for more than three decades, business interests have invested billions of dollars to sell the public a distorted view of a legal system that is justi- fiably…
This week the news broke across the country about a new FDA Warning: Don’t use Hydroxycut Dietary Supplements. In Hawaii we don’t always get the news about these things and so I have been…
Mary Vorsino, of the Honolulu Advertiser reports that the Coast Guard has reported on two tourist deaths in separate incidents. A 13 year old boy was killed on a catamaran off Waikiki in 2006 when…
A news note from: Arthur Bryant Executive Director Public Justice & the Public Justice Foundation The Public Justice Access to Justice Campaign and Mandatory Arbitration Abuse…
Arbitration Fairnress Day was celebrated on April 29th and now the public is being educated about the evil of forced arbitration also know as binding mandatory arbitration or BME. Thwety five years…