Mental Health Awareness Month – Part 1: Dealing with Loss and Grief during Litigation
Since May is Mental Health Awareness Month, I want to highlight the importance of dealing with loss and grief—issues that affect many plaintiffs and their loved ones throughout the course of litigation. As an attorney handling asbestos mesothelioma and other personal injury cases for over a decade, my role is often part zealous advocate […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: GROUNDBREAKING SETTLEMENT ON BEHALF OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN GOLD MINERS SUFFERING FROM SILICOSIS & TUBERCULOSIS
“May 3, 2018 (Washington D.C.) – Hausfeld is proud to announce a groundbreaking settlement on behalf of Southern African gold miners suffering from occupational lung disease that was finalized today in Johannesburg, South Africa. This historic class action settlement, the first ever of its kind in South Africa, reflects more than a decade of preparation […]
Public Health for Sale Part II
Direct parallels can be drawn between how the NRA and other industries influence public health. Monsanto is a behemoth in the agricultural and chemical industry. It has invested extensive sums of money into genetically modified crops. It manufactures and sells Roundup© a glyphosate-based pesticide that its genetically modified crops are designed to work in conjunction […]
Self Driving Cars
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be stopped at a traffic light, look over to your side, and see a car with no driver, you may not have to wait much longer to find out. Although we will initially see these self-driving vehicles with a human driver behind the wheel as […]
May is Bike to Work Month!
May is Bike to Work month, and with the Spring weather finally (hopefully) upon us, those of us in the cycling community expect to see a large uptick in the number of riders on the road. With the increase in riders comes the unfortunate, but inevitable increase in bicycling crashes and injuries. My blog this […]
Realistic Expectations? The Glamour and Glory in the TV series Suits
My son has been trying to get me to watch the series Suits for quite some time. I keep telling him that I don’t want to watch at night what I live every day. Over time, however, he wore me down and one night I found myself with nothing to binge watch, so I decided […]
Sex, Lies and Videotape
The case began simply enough. A bar in Scranton served beer to a minor. The minor took the beer out to the parking lot and used the glass to gash out our client’s eye. Under Dram Shop law and cases, a bar is liable if it serves a minor or a drunk and that person […]
Orbitz.com Announces Data Breach
The popular travel website Orbitz.com has announced that it discovered evidence of a data breach in which an unauthorized third party accessed personal information for consumers who booked travel between: Reports indicate that approximately 880,000 payment cards were affected by the breach, and that along with the payment card information hackers may have accessed customers […]
Post at Your Peril: Facebook Privacy Settings Don’t Protect Against Discoverability in New York
On February 13, 2018, the Court of Appeals weighed in on an important issue relating to the discoverability of private social media content. In a unanimous decision, New York’s highest court reversed the First Department’s application of a heightened threshold for the production of social media records where the account holder has chosen to share […]
The Parkland Students Offer Hope for the American Democracy
Activism is alive in Parkland Florida. And not merely alive, but raging. Agree with them or not; support them or not: one must be impressed by the vital energy that the survivors of the Parkland mass shooting have directed toward being the change they seek. Merely two weeks after a mentally ill former student massacred […]
Public Health for Sale
I began to write this blog piece on February 9, 2018, before the most recent mass school shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The purpose was to address how the corporate sector’s assault on science, in order to weaken regulations and civil justice and in turn increase profitability, has been […]
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Ransomware Attack
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, which offers IT solutions for physicians, hospitals, and other medical service by providing (among other things) electronic health records (“EHR”), financial management and e-prescription services was subject to a ransomware attack on January 18, 2018. The ransomware attack prevented medical providers using the Allscripts platform from accessing patient’s records, or electronically prescribing […]