- Shannon Weidemann | February 27, 2007 3:10 PM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseLast September there was a backlog of 1300 nursing home related complaints that had not been investigated in the state of California. A Superior Court Judge had to order that the complaints be cleared and the 10-day investigation law be followed.Since then, progress has been made. To meet the mandate, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger committed $20 million in the current budget to hire 141 new nursing...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 22, 2007 7:12 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWhat does an adjuster do as soon as you have an accident and they find out about it? Whether its your adjuster (for cases of uninsured motorist coverage) or the liability adjuster of the other party, they want to immediately take your statement. Why? Very simple, often soft tissue injuries manifest themselves over the subsequent days. If they get you to make a statement that you are not...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 22, 2007 10:47 AM |
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MiscellaneousIn further draconian efforts to add additional barriers to those injured by negligent parties, we are once again faced with tort reform. I won't get into Senator Coffee's bill which seeks blanket immunity for the medical profession and corporations, or even discuss the merits of this bill. However, I do want to discuss a floor amendment which frankly is asinine. For years I have been begging...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 21, 2007 3:04 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsSay your car is worth $7,000, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) guide. Then all of a sudden your involved in an accident and you have to make a claim on your insurance. The insurer or negligent parties insurer pays for the repairs on your car (minus your deductible) and you decide to sell the car. As you shop your car around, you find that you can't get anything...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 21, 2007 2:50 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsPeople often ask why is uninsured motorist coverage important to have and is it worth my time and money. I recently read that as many as one third of Oklahoma drivers do not have car insurance. Thats a substantial amount of drivers driving our roads that if they hit you, most likely the only reasonable way to recover will be through uninsured motorist coverage. The bottom line is this, spend...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 20, 2007 11:08 PM |
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MiscellaneousEver had one of those late nights where your mind is running ninety miles an hour with what you have to do tomorrow and the rest of the week? Well, I think I'm having one of those moments so I decided to blog. Its late so forgive the spelling and grammer errors that will most likely occur. In a culture which my profession is consistently being attacked as being greedy and generally bad. My...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 19, 2007 1:36 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeSaw this interesting article on Texaswatch.org. It entitled False Choice: Doctors or accountability" and does a wonderful job of painting the true impact of tort reform in Texas. It once against exposes us to the lies and distortions by corporations, doctors, and insurance companies in there ongoing efforts to buy legislatures into giving them virtual immunity. Follow the link to the...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 19, 2007 11:31 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsI recently read where 1 in 3 drivers in Oklahoma are uninsured. This makes it imperative on you to get good uninsured motorist coverage. I know the extra expense is a pain, but if you are in an accident you will reap its rewards when confronted with huge medical bills and health insurance company that doesn't want to pay because someone else caused the negligence.
- Jeremy Thurman | February 19, 2007 11:13 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsWe are now representating individuals who too Paxil during pregnancy which resulted in injuries to the newborn. If you are not aware, Paxil has been show to cause holes or other malformations in the chambers of the newborne's heart. Often the defects heal on their own, but more severe cases require surgical intervention. Specifically, Paxil causes Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the...
- Shannon Weidemann | February 17, 2007 10:59 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsA woman was discovered in a sem itrailer that was delivering lettuce to a distribution center. Her body was pinned between two pallets. "Preliminary autopsy results indicate the cause of death to be due to compressional asphyxiation and at this point in the investigation, her death appears to be accidental," Kraemer said.The victim and her husband were at a Dole plant in Yuma picking up a load...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 17, 2007 9:38 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsJust wanted to remind the general public that it so important to get Medical payment coverage. Its cheap and when your in an accident, regardless of fault, it pays your medical bills up to the amount of med pay coverage you have. However, it has no basis on the amount of recovery you can recieve from the negligent party or your uninsured motorist coverage.
- Jeremy Thurman | February 17, 2007 9:31 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeIn the age of tort reform and the war being raged against trial attorneys by insurance companies and the medical profession, I thought I would just remind people what exactly medical malpractice is. I think if we were to think about it realize that not all that many people really know what constitutes medical malpractice.So what is medical malpractice? In a nutshell, its where a doctor, nurse,...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 17, 2007 9:24 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThanks to Joe Sanders out of Florida for his blog where he discusses FDA approval and what it really means as to the safety and efficacy of a drug. I think the more drug litigation I become a part of, the more questioning I become on any new drug approved by the FDA. From Fen-phen to Ortho Evra, we see more and more drugs with dangerous side effects harming the public while drug companies...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 17, 2007 9:18 PM |
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MiscellaneousGary McAllister presented a good commentary about uninformed member's of legislatures voting for tort reform packages. I encourage everyone to read his post as this is what we are facing in Oklahoma today as our brilliant legislature attempts to limit your access to the courthouse.http://chicago.injuryboard.com/medical-malpractice/tort-reform-hurts-sponsor.php#more
- Jeremy Thurman | February 15, 2007 9:53 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeI must confess one thing. When issues hit at the heart of something I do or know, I tend to be quite opinionated. After years of watching republican representatives and senators blatantly lie to the Oklahoma public, I have decided to become more vociferous on the issue of tort reform. Now before I share an email I sent to a state representative, I think you should understand that in my...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 14, 2007 10:59 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsJust a brief tidbit why you should always hire an attorney when injured in an automobile accident.We have a client who was injured and tried to negotiate with the insurance company by herself. They offered her very little over her medical bills. Due to privacy I will give you a hypothetical number of an take it or leave offer to her of $2800.00. She hired our firm and by the time it was over...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 14, 2007 10:48 AM |
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MiscellaneousI was emailing a friend on tort reform in Oklahoma and here is an excerpt of what I was trying to explain to him. "Let me try to address this from a new approach. I mean this with all sincerity as opposing views are what makes this country great. I will not argue that I feel very strongly and emotional on the subject as I believe evidence from other states such as Texas illustrate that such...
- Jacob Diesselhorst | February 13, 2007 3:54 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeFacts about the current Medical Malpractice Condition in Oklahoma and U.S.According to the Federation of Medical Boards, Oklahoma moved to 4th per capita for number of doctors in 2005. This is up from 6th per capita in 2005."We are doing fine said Carl T. Hook, M.D., President of PLICO. "The first six months of this year we have a net income of 21 Million, which will be applied to the company's...
- Jacob Diesselhorst | February 13, 2007 3:46 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeMr. Coffee claims he is for promoting a growing Oklahoma. However, in the same paragraph in which he touts support for a "job-rich environment by fighting for real lawsuit reform, comprehensive worker's compensation reform (additional that is)," he says he wants to "demand financial accountability" for government. Do we not hold big business and big insurance to the same standards as we hold...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 13, 2007 2:08 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeI was just sent an article written by Hugh M. Robert, Tulsa, who is the executive director ofthe Center for Consumer and Patient Safety in Oklahoma. In the days of tort reform and promoting medical and corporate immunity, its good to see articles telling the truth.I have yet to find a link to the article, but the following is a some quotes from that article that are most telling:"Every year more...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 09, 2007 3:59 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsBelow is a Transcript of CNN's Expose on Allstate and State Farm. A friend sent this to me without a link. As soon as I find one I'll send it to you. However, it's a good read as to why you need to hire an attorney if you are injured in automobile wreck. Wed., Feb. 7, 2007Insurance companies fight paying billions in claimsCOOPER: Traffic accidents, of course, are a fact of life. So is dealing...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 09, 2007 1:44 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsYou might take it for granted, but your sense of smell can alert you to dangers like gas leaks and can make food more flavorful and appetizing. The over the counter nasal spray Zicam has been linked to loss of smell (anosmia) and loss of taste. Zicam has been associated with the onset of a condition known as anosmia, which leaves the user with a potentially permanent loss of smell and taste....
- Jeremy Thurman | February 09, 2007 12:14 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeNow, to discussing caps I submit the following which is more of those darn facts and empirical evidence that keeps just getting in the way of people such as our Republican leader in the Senate and frankly Oklahoma state republican party:Physicians say caps on non-economic damages will lower malpractice premiums. The two largest insurers of doctors in the country stated before Congress and state...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 08, 2007 9:23 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeI just read an article on CBS news regarding hospital safety and about a brave Doctor Berwick who runs the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/06/eveningnews/main2440767.shtmlPer the article, he is essentially trying to make hospitals safer for patients. In this article, Berwick estimates that for every 100 patients admitted to hospitals, there are 40...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 07, 2007 3:56 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsOn September 20, 2006, results of a new study were released that confirmed previous studies showing an increased risk of blood clots associated with the use of Ortho Evra versus oral contraceptives. The study found that women using Ortho Evra were twice as likely to develop blood clots as those using oral contraceptive pills. As a result, the FDA has asked Ortho McNeil Pharmaceuticals, a...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 07, 2007 3:32 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsHave you ever tried to negotiate with an adjuster regarding an automobile case? I often pose this question when talking to prospective clients and some have and some have not. That said, for those that have tried they invariably say that their experience was unpleasent at best and they feel they weren't compensated as they should have been for there injuries. Now lets think, how many claims...
- Jeremy Thurman | February 07, 2007 2:50 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeFor some of our illustrious legislatures in Oklahoma that are beating the drums of war over tort reform, I have to ask why? What evidence do you have to remotely suggest there is a medical malpractice or lawsuit crisis occurring in Oklahoma?Shall I dare say that the reason they do not provide evidence is that none exists. Or shall I dare say that it appears that the insurance industry and...