Miscellaneous

• Starbucks Sued for Scalding Coffee Spill

  Greg Webb | November 04, 2008 8:45 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A woman in Knoxville, Tennessee is suing Starbucks for $250,000 for burns caused by scalding coffee served with an unattached lid. Jordan Triplett, 23, ordered Starbucks coffee at the store’s...

• Bush Administration Pushes For Pre-Emption – Taking Power from the Citizenry in Favor of Corporate America

  Greg Webb | October 22, 2008 11:17 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In their last weeks in office, Bush administration officials are urging about fifty federal rules be rewritten to include changes or additions that could block product-safety lawsuits filed by...

• Medtronic Faces Scrutiny By Congress Over Financial Arrangements with Physicians

  Greg Webb | October 22, 2008 10:23 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Senate lawmakers are pressuring Medtronic to disclose more information about its consulting arrangements with physicians. They cited previous evidence that the company paid surgeons to boost sales...

• Government Initiative: Leg Pain May Be Warning Sign For Blood Clots

  Greg Webb | October 05, 2008 8:47 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Too many Americans are dying from dangerous blood clots that can masquerade as leg pain, says a new government initiative aimed at getting both patients and their physicians to recognize the...

• Study Shows High Medical Costs Without Insurance Leaving Americans In Trouble

  Greg Webb | September 09, 2008 9:15 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  According to a recent study, Americans are struggling to pay medical bills and are gathering medical debt at an increasing rate. Incomes are not able to sustain the growing costs of health-care....

• Ford Facing Lawsuit In “Limited Edition” Dispute

  Greg Webb | August 21, 2008 9:00 AM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA

  Ford Motor Co. is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by customers who purchased the “limited edition” 2007 Roush Stage 3 BlackJack, after it was discovered the model was not so “limited” after...

• Prostate Cancer Screening Being Questioned In Recent Studies

  Greg Webb | August 17, 2008 9:02 PM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A federal task force has concluded that due to so much unnecessary anxiety, surgery and complications, the blood test, or prostate-specific antigen test (PSA), millions of men undergo each...

• Recent Study Ranks Insurance Companies, Warns Consumers

  Greg Webb | July 28, 2008 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The American Association of Justice (AAJ) has created a list of ten insurance companies that are bad for consumers. Allstate was deemed the worst insurance company with Unum, AIG, State Farm,...

• Big Changes In The Economics Of Civil Litigation?

  Greg Webb | July 15, 2008 9:28 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has much to be happy about after the Supreme Court decided to cut the punitive damages in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case to only a week’s worth of Exxon profits...

• Allstate - McKinsey Documents Did Not Include Information On Catastrophic Claims

  Greg Webb | May 06, 2008 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A few weeks ago, Allstate Corp. posted 150,000 pages of material on the company’s website that were produced in the 1990’s about over-hauling the company’s claims-handling process. These highly...