Personal Injury / Wrongful Death

• Adoption Fraud in California
• Wrongful Adoption: Fraud by Adoption Agencies
• After the Accident: What To Do Immediately
• Personal Injury Negligence Law in California
• Personal Injury: How Long Will a Lawsuit Take?
• Personal Injury: Do I Have To Go To Court? Can I Settle Out of Court?
• California's Two Year Statute of Limitations: Extended until Suspicion of Injury
• How to Hire the "Right Lawyer": Consumers' Rights in the Legal Marketplace
• Understanding the Legal Fee Agreement: Consumers' Rights in the Legal Marketplace
• Brain Injuries: Proving a Lifetime Disability
• A Winning Strategy in Defective Products Cases
• Playing It Safe: A Fourth Nationwide Safety Survey of Public Playgrounds By Public Interest Research Group
• Handgun Use Banned for Misdemeanor Domestic Violence Conviction
• Personal Injury Lawyers Across the USA (list)
• California Workers' Compensation Attorneys for On-The-Job Injuries
• Early Diagnosis of Industrially Induced Cancers and Birth Defects: Employees' Rights and Employers' Duties to Warn Before Hiring, During Employment and After Employment Ends
• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death: An Outline of Common Claims under California Law. Jury Duty in California: An Overview of Jury Trials
• Sports Injuries and the Immunity of Coaches, Instructors and Professional Trainers from Liability under California's Primary Assumption of Risk
• Lifecare Planning for the BK Amputee: Future Medical Costs
• Spinal Cord Injuries: The Economic Aftermath of Quadriplegia
• Survivors of Sexual Assault: A General Information Guide for Women
• Information and Resources for Survivors of Sexual Assault
• Child Abuse and Neglect
• Child Molestation: School's Failure to Supervise a Volunteer Senior Citizen - A Case Study
• The Tragedy Of Elder Abuse: Outrageous Misconduct By A Residential Care Facility That Resulted In Death By Starvation And Dehydration. A True Story
• Brain Damage at Birth: A Malpractice Case Study
• Protective Helmets Prevent Traumatic Brain Injury: Horseback-Riding Injuries Prove the Case
• The Traumatically Brain Injured and the Law
• Fraud by Adoption Agencies
• Rape Crisis - The Victim's Rights - How and Where to Get Help in Santa Clara County

Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents

• Air Crash Fatality and Survival Factors for Commercial Pilots
• Airbus A-300 Defects: FAA Delay in Ordering Inspection and American Airlines Flight 587 November 12, 2001
• U.S. Plan for Compensation for World Trade Center Deaths: Unfair to Survivors and Surviving Families
• Airline Responsibility for the World Trade Center Deaths
• All Terrain Vehicles: Deaths and Injuries to Children
• Buckle Up The Back Seat
• Defective Firestone and Bridgestone Tires on Ford Explorers and other SUVs
• Gas Tank Fires: The $4.9 Billion Verdict Against General Motors for the Explosion of a 1979 Chevrolet Malibu
• Gas Tank Safety in 1973-87 GM Pickup Trucks: A Proposed Solution to the Hazard of Saddlebag
• GM: December 1996 Letter to GM Pickup Truck Owners with Side Saddle Tanks: Settlement Denied by a Handful of Objectors
• GM: Gas Tank Fires: The Historical Case Against the Placement of Gas Tanks Outside the Frame Rails on the 1973-87 General Motors C & K Model Pickup Trucks
• GM Pickup Trucks Settlement Approved, January 21, 1999
• GM Pickup Truck Settlement Terms
• Passive Seatbelt Systems and the 65 MPH Speed Limit: A Cause for Concern
• Product Liability: Preventing Deaths From Tire Explosions Caused by Known Design Defects
• Protecting Government From Liability: The FAA's Approach to Flight Safety [Rulemaking After The Aircrash]
• Rollovers: Death, Brain Damage and Quadriplegia - The Failure and the Fault of Roof "Standards"
• Sports Utility Vehicles: Dangerous Propensities In An Emergency - 4x4 Rollovers
• The Hazards of Overhead Electrical Catenary Railroad Systems: A Detailed Case Report Of A $8.5 million Recovery
• Truck Crashes Caused by Drivers Asleep at the Wheel
• Seatbelt Systems and the 65 MPH Speed Limit: Inherent Failures at Higher Speeds
• Preventing Deaths from Tire Explosions Caused by Known Design Defects

Toxic Chemical Exposure & Birth Defects

• Environmental Pollution and Property Damage: Overcoming the Permanent Nuisance Three Year Statute of Limitations - Anatomy of a $2,000,000 Property Damage Settlement, Part I
• Environmental Pollution and Property Damage: Overcoming the Defenses of Consent and Custom and Practice - Anatomy of a $2,000,000 Property Damage Settlement, Part II
• Calculating Property Damage in Pollution and Environmental Cases - Anatomy of a $2,000,000 Property Damage Settlement, Part III
• Expert Medical Opinions in Toxic Tort Cases are Not Subject to Exclusion Under Kelly Frye
• Electronics Industry Fraud: Cancer and Birth Defects, A Public Report
• Birth Defects Caused by Herbicides, Insecticides, and Industrial Chemicals that Disrupt the Endocrine System
• Birth Defects in Children of Workers Exposed to Chemicals
• IBM: Cancer and Birth Defects at San Jose, Fishkill and Essex Junction
• A Developing Toxic Tort: Lumber Mills, Log Cabins, Leukemia, Lymphomas and Soft Tissue Sarcomas: The Case Against Pentachlorophenol
• Cancer in the Electronics Industry
• Corporate Manipulation of Scientific Evidence Linking Chemical Exposures to Human Disease: A Case in Point -- Cigarette Science at Johns Hopkins.
• Chemically Induced Diseases: Synergistic Effects and Cumulative Injuries caused by Toxic
• Contaminated L-Tryptophan and 5-Hydroxy-L-Tryptophan, Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome [EMS], the 1989 Epidemic and the 1998 Warning
• Dioxin in Pentachlorophenol: A Case Study of Cancer Deaths in the Lumber Industry
• Dioxin Proven to Cause Cancer and Heart Disease
• Fetal Brain Damage, Developmental Delays and Intellectual Impairment as a Result of Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyl [PCB] in Pregnancy
• In Utero Workplace Injuries: Children Harmed By Solvents During Pregnancy
• Industry's "True Lies": The Politics Behind the Scientific Debate on Dioxin
• Leukemia, Solvents and Glues: Proving the Connection, a Case Study
• Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Fetal Neurotoxicity, Microcephaly and Mental Retardation: In Utero Brain Damage Caused by Toxic Solvent Exposure
• Over-the-Counter Herbicides Pose a Significant Threat of Soft-Tissue Sarcoma, Leukemia and Lymphoma
• Proving Chemically Induced Asthma Symptoms: Reactive Airway Dysfunction Syndrome, A New Medical Development
• Proving Toxic Torts: A Primer on Pharmacokinetics
• Radon - A National Environmental Health Problem
• Carcinogens to be Avoided Toxic Exposures in the Construction Industry
• Environmental Exposure to Toxic Chemicals Cause Cancer: Research Report
• Les Ethers de Glycol: les risques et les enjeux pour la Sante
• A Developing Toxic Tort: Lumber Mills, Log Cabins, Leukemia, Lymphomas and Soft Tissue Sarcomas: The Case Against Pentachlorophenol
• Litigating Chemically Induced Cancer Cases Years Later

Unsafe Drugs

• Fen-Phen California Warning: Silent Injury - Secret Disease made worse by California's Two Year Statute of Limitations that Starts Running When Injury is First Suspected
• Paxil Reaction: Wrongful Death of Wife Caused by the Failure to Treat Husband's Manic Psychotic State Aggravated by Paxil- Case Report
• Defective Sulzer Hip and Knee Replacements
• Chemically Induced Diseases: Synergistic Effects and Cumulative Injuries Caused by Toxic Chemicals — Understanding the Gulf War Syndrome and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)

Product Liability / Defective Products

• 10 Common Consumer Law Violations that a Class Action Lawyer Can Make Them Wish They Never Committed
• Asthmatic Children with Seizures: Theophylline May Be the Cause
• Class Action Arbitrations in California
• Confidential Settlements Should Be Banned in California
• Consumer Advocacy Demands National Coordination: A Call to the American Council on Consumer Interests
• Consumers' Rights in the Legal Marketplace: Problems of Contingency Fee Clients Who Change Attorneys
• Contact Lenses: Settlement of Bausch & Lomb Lens Wearer Class Action
• Discrimination In Burial Insurance Policies
• Explosive Devices, Public Schools, and Lenient School Administrators: The June 8, 1994 Smoke Bomb Prank at Palo Alto's Gunn High School that Injured Eighteen
• Gouging Patients Taking Thyroid Hormone Synthroid [Levothyroxine Sodium] by Knoll Pharmaceuticals
• Hidden Safety Hazards: (And How to Protect Yourself Against Them)
• How to Resolve Your Consumer Complaint
• Limiting the Application of Proposition 51 in Cases Involving Public Policy and Employer's Negligence
• National List of Consumer Organizations
• National Institute for Consumer Education
• Proving a National Real Estate Franchisor's Joint Venture Tort Liability
• Privacy, Banking Records and the Supreme Court: A Before and After Look at Miller Someone should file a class action against...
• Stop Corporate Rip Offs - Blow the Whistle on Crime
• The Effect of Inflation on Damages for Future Losses
• Turn Loose the Securities Lawyers
• Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Vaccine Manufacturers and Breast Implant Manufacturers: Same Game, Same Strategies. A Mere Coincidence?
• Why I am Proud to be a Lawyer
• A Winning Strategy in Defective Products Cases
• Breast Implants: Dow's Manipulation of Public Opinion and the Media
• Breast Implants: Fact v. Fiction in the Harvard and Mayo Clinic Studies
• Carcinogens Everywhere: Lead in Children: Old Story - New Data
• Ending Secrecy in Defective Product Litigation: New Federal Reporting Rule for Consumer Products
• Hepatitis C from Gammagard ®, an Intravenous Immunoglobulin [IGIV]
• Prescription Drugs that Kill: Another Kind of Drug Problem
• Chrysler ABS Brake Recall and Buy Back
• Preparing the Defective Product Case
• Ending Secrecy in Defective Product Litigation: New Federal Reporting Rule for Consumer Products
• Limiting the Application of Proposition 51 in Cases of Liability Based on Public Policy and Employer's Negligence
• New Directions in Products Liability Warning Cases
• Product Liability Cases: A Game Plan for Success
• Products Liability - Preparing the Plaintiff's Cases
• Consumers' rights in the legal marketplace: Problems of contingency fee clients who change attorneys

Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith

• Avoiding Fraud When Buying Long-Term Care Insurance: A Guide For Consumers And Their Families
• National Database of Long-Term Health Care Providers
• The History of No-Fault: Voters Say "No" to So-Called "Reforms" 13 Out of 13 Times
• When an Insurance Company Breaches Its Contract: A Brief Summary of the General Law in the United States.

General

• Class Actions Protect Investors and Consumers from Abuse: An Overview of the Requirements for Prosecuting and Certifying a Class Action
• In the Jury Box and the Ballot Box: Public Disgust with Corporate Wrongdoing
• Protecting Government from Liability: The FAA's Approach to Flight Safety
• A Protocol for Increasing Client Communication and Successful Case Outcomes: Replicating the Medical Model of Service Delivery in a Remedial Practice
• Proving a National Real Estate Franchisor's Joint Venture Tort Liability
• Civil Litigation Specialist - Time to Comment
• Admiralty, Federalism and the New York Direct Action Statute: Seamen's Rights to Enforce Jones Act Judgements
• The Effect of Inflation on Damages for Future Losses
• The Litigation Explosion Myth and the Confusion About Court Congestion
• It's Time for the Bar to "Meet the Press"
• Attorney's Fees for Pro Bono Services
• Ethical Considerations: Organized Labor Actions by District Attorneys and Public Defenders
• How to Harness the Information Explosion
• Advanced Litigation Support: Computerized Information Sources for Trial Attorneys and Their Experts
• Admissibility of Experimental Evidence
• Videotape in the Courtroom
• Privacy, Banking Records and the Supreme Court: A Before and After Look at Miller
• Search Warrants and Eye Witness Identification
• Arrest Record Expungement in California: The Polishing of Sterling
• Grand Jury Indictment Versus Prosecution by Information — An Equal Protection - Due Process Issue

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