Miscellaneous

• Excessive Litigation A Myth According to Law School Study

  David Lowe | April 07, 2009 8:40 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A University of Wisconsin Law School study debunks excessive litigation myths about increasing litigation in Wisconsin. Professor Marc Galanter and former Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Steingass's...

• Workers Injured In Coal Dust Explosion Accident May Have Rights Beyond Worker's Compensation Benefits

  David Lowe | February 04, 2009 9:46 AM | 3 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Yesterday's coal dust silo explosion at We Energies' Oak Creek power plant injured six employees preparing to perform repairs inside the structure. The injured employees work for ThyssenKrupp...

• Boy Fleeing Rottweiller Suffers Head Injury

  David Lowe | June 03, 2008 2:30 PM | 1 CommentMilwaukee, WI

  The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel website is reporting that a 17-year-old boy fleeing a Rottweiller dog suffered a fractured skull Monday night after he ran into a tree. Policeare reporting that the...

• Tainted Heparin Deaths: Investigators Are Closing In On The Explanations

  David Lowe | April 25, 2008 4:22 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Update on the tainted heparin investigation. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website has posted a report that gives an explanation for how the tainted heparin caused injury and deaths, and how it...

• Tree Stand Manufacturer Settles Suit By CPSC

  David Lowe | January 11, 2008 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Ardisam, Inc. of Cumberland, Wisconsin is paying $420,000 to settle a suit by the Consumer Product Safety Commission alleging that it failed to report personal injuries suffered by hunters using its tree stands when the stands unexpectedly detached from trees. Even though the company allegedly became aware of at least nine injury incident reports as early as 2000, the company did not report the...

• Problems Persist For Brain Injury Victim

  David Lowe | October 02, 2007 7:07 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Brain injury can result in physical limitations, such as quadraplegia or paraplegia, as well as mental limitations, such as loss of memory and other cognitive functions. An interesting and tragic account of one man's traumatic brain injury appears in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Elliot Lubar, a well known executive of a social services agency that provides counseling services to...

• Liability Insurance Hard to Find After Dog Attack

  David Lowe | September 26, 2007 6:55 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A column in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Jim Stingl describes a dog owner's problem obtaining liability insurance following an incident in which her dog ran out of the yard and bit a neighbor. Because Wisconsin has a statute (174.02, Wis.Stats) that awards double damages to a victim of a dog that has bitten before, most liability insurers will refuse to insure a homeowner who does...

• Insurance Companies Accused of Fraud in Katrina Claims

  Paul Jacquart | August 08, 2007 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The Associated Press has reported that the U.S. Department of Justice is contemplating intervening in a New Orleans lawsuit accusing several major insurance companies of fraud for paying off engineers in order to falsify claims. The "whistleblower" suit filed in the name of two sisters who worked for a company that contracted with State Farm, names State Farm, Nationwide Insurance Co.,...

• Collapsed I-35W Bridge Had History of Problems

  Paul Jacquart | August 03, 2007 9:14 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  While various government spokespersons have taken to the airwaves to calm the nerves of American drivers after the tragic collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis, the media are already examining bridge inspection and maintenance records bearing upon whether officials knew or should have known that the bridge was in poor condition, with one early report making some rather unsettling...

• That's Not My Mortgage!

  Paul Jacquart | July 31, 2007 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The Washington Post reports that a man in Arlington County Virginia was surprised to receive notice that he had overpaid his second mortgage http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20044213/ because . . . he did not have a second mortgage. It turns out that a thief had stolen his wallet a year earlier and had used his identity to buy a $419,000 house with no money down! Fortunately, this identity thief...