Posts tagged General Personal Injury

• Tree Stand Manufacturer Settles Suit By CPSC

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

  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 Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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 Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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 Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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 Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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 Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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...

• Criminal Charges Unlikely in Amusement Ride Accident

  David Lowe | July 22, 2007 1:29 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Last weekend I wrote about an amusement ride accident in which a 16 year old girl from Menasha, Wisconsin died when she fell more than 40 feet from a ride called Air Glory while attending a Christian music festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.The Wisconsin Journal Sentinel website reports this afternoon that the local district attorney is saying that criminal charges against the amusement ride...

• Legislator Seeking End to U.W. Law Support Is Experienced Pro Se Litigant

  David Lowe | July 17, 2007 9:33 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Declaring that Wisconsin does not need more "ambulance chasing lawyers", Rep. Frank Lasee, Republican from Green Bay, has proposed a measure that would end public support for the University of Wisconsin Law School. The measure gained approval from the Republican controlled Wisconsin Assembly and became part of the recently approved Wisconsin Assembly's budget bill.Appropriately, Governor Doyle...

• Wisconsin Court Allows Clergy Abuse Victims To Sue For Fraud

  David Lowe | July 12, 2007 8:11 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Court decisions by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1995 and 1997 closed the door to the courthouse for childhood victims of sex abuse by priests, holding in John BBB Doe v. Archdiocese of Milwaukee that the statute of limitations had expired three years after the last incident of abuse and, in a case called Pritzlaff v. Archdiocse of Milwaukee, that the Archdiocese of Milwaukee was not liable for...

• Contingent Fee Lawyers In Public Interest Cases Face Real Risks

  David Lowe | July 10, 2007 8:15 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Today's New York Times has published a piece by legal affairs columnist Adam Liptik raising questions about state and local governments' use of contingent fee lawfirms to handle major litigation, such as tobacco and environmental pollution cases. Most of the criticism of the fee arrangements comes out of the mouths of lawyers defending the polluters and other corporate interests, who would...