Posts tagged General Personal Injury

• Hasbro Easy Bake Oven Recall

  Ken Margolin | July 19, 2007 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Underscoring the continued hazards to children, created by poorly designed toys, Hasbro recalled its Easy Bake Oven. Nearly a million of the toys have been manufactured. The oven is intended for young children. It is a small plastic replica of a real oven, electrically powered, that heats up internally to as hot as 400 degrees farenheit! No surprise - children have been getting burned - and...

• More Insurance Company Fraud

  Ken Margolin | July 06, 2007 11:05 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Several days ago, I posted a blog on bad faith denial of claims by insurance companies. I don't usually write blogs on the same topic within several days of each other, but I must comment on the superb reporting on insurance company bad faith, in this month's issue of Trial magazine. Trial is the journal of the American Association for Justice, the plaintiffs' trial lawyers association. The...

• Bad Faith Denial of Insurance Claims

  Ken Margolin | June 26, 2007 6:15 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  There is only one reason to buy insurance - to have the peace of mind of knowing that the financial needs of you or your family will be covered in the event of death, catastrophic injury, or long-term disability or illness. When an insurance company denies payment of a valid claim in bad faith, it is practicing the corporate greed version of "what's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine." You...

• Back to Business

  Ken Margolin | June 25, 2007 2:45 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff, ruled in favor of the defendant dry cleaning shop owners in the $67 million dollar pants case (media now describe it as the $54 million dollar pants lawsuit, but why quibble). Life gets back to normal for the American civil justice system, but some damage has been done. Opponents of access to justice by ordinary people, and trial lawyer...

• The Video Settlement Brochure

  Ken Margolin | June 22, 2007 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  In a previous blog, I wrote about day-in-the-life videos. These are videos that film a severely injured plaintiff and capture vignettes of a typical day, in a 20 - 30 minute movie. If done properly, they can be shown to a jury at trial. Another tool that any lawyer representing a client with catastrophic injuries may consider, is a video settlement brochure. In the video settlement brochure, the...

• Caution - Made in China

  Ken Margolin | June 21, 2007 5:55 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  China's much-reported industrial rise will have many impacts in this country, many positive, but some troublesome. By now, most of us are aware of the tainted pet food ingredients, originating in China, and responsible for the deaths of a number of pets in this country. Recently, a warning was given to avoid toothpastes made in China. Now, toys made in China are under the gun. The New York Times...

• Sexual Abuse of Disabled Persons a Continuing Shame

  Ken Margolin | June 14, 2007 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Once again, a case of sexual abuse of disabled persons by a caretaker, is in the news. Wayne Albert Bleyle, pleaded guilty in San Diego, of molesting brain damaged children at Rady's Children's Hospital, where he had worked as a respiratory therapist. Bleyle had been charged in early 2006, and has been in jail since, on $5 million bail. The prosecutor, Laura Gunn, described the case as 'one of...

• Preventing Drowning Deaths

  Ken Margolin | June 04, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  You may have read the sad story last week, of the two toddlers who left their house, wandered down to a nearby pool, and drowned while their babysitter slept. The purpose of this blog is not to speculate on blame in that tragedy. It reminds us that summer season is here and with it, comes too many drowning deaths that could have been prevented. As was illustrated by the death of the two little...

• Mediation of Personal Injury Cases

  Ken Margolin | May 31, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Clients often ask me if "my case will have to go to court?" By that question, they mean, will it have to be tried before a jury, or will it settle "out of court." Most clients, even those who appreciate that they could get significantly more money with a verdict than through settlement, prefer the surety of a settlement over the high stakes gamble of a big score vs. nothing. Sometimes a case...

• Blog with Care

  Ken Margolin | May 31, 2007 1:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A great front page article in today's Boston Globe, told of a doctor on trial for medical malpractice, who used his blog site to comment on the ongoing trial. The doctor's blog name was "flea." The case against him was serious, alleging that his negligent failure to diagnose diabetes, resulted in the death of a 12 year old girl, from diabetic shock. The free-blogging doctor had been commenting...