Posts tagged About Tort Reform

• Oklahoman Tort Reform Article

  Jeremy Thurman | March 24, 2008 11:07 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  About this time of year, the Daily Disappointment, aka The Oklahoman begans issuing editorials as instructed by their bosses at the State Chamber. If you think I'm kidding about who Ed Kelly's bosses are, I'm not, he does the Chamber's bidding. Now in their titled "Aces Low: Trial Lawyers Overplay Their Hand," the Oklahoman editorial staff in only what can be called a propaganda scheme that...

• Nurse Infects Patients and Keeps Practicing

  Jeremy Thurman | March 21, 2008 11:18 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The following reported by Yahoo is just another scary incident where the medical profession has failed to police itself. With all the talk of tort reform et al, this gives me the biggest evidence against such. Doctors and medical professionals routinely fail to police themselves leaving on us medical malpractice lawyers to do such. I have seen simliar circumstances of coverup, lies and...

• A Lawyers Utopia - My Rant Against Tort Reform

  Jeremy Thurman | March 08, 2008 1:21 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I was discussing tort reform with a friend today and I heard my favorite term, Jackpot Justice. Of course I convinced my friend of the error of his ways and the utter fallacy of the tort reform movement. However, I got to thinking, what is Jackpot Justice. I better add a disclaimer, after reading this, this is truly a late night rant against the rhetoric of politicians.Now understand one...

• American Fidelity to pay $10.8M

  Jeremy Thurman | February 04, 2008 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An Oklahoma jury ordered American Fidelity to pay $10.8 million for improperly reducing the benefit owed to the mother of a policy holder who died. Dolores Metzger claimed the company improperly changed its policy for paying "actual charges" for limited benefit health insurance policies, such as the cancer policy purchased by Metzger's son. Before 1994, American Fidelity paid whatever the...

• Fisher Invokes Fifth Amendment over 40 Times

  Jeremy Thurman | January 29, 2008 9:48 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Daily Oklahoman January 29, 2008 By Don Mecoy Business Writer Imprisoned former state Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 40 times during a civil trial Monday in federal court to avoid answering questions about his relationship with American Fidelity Assurance Co. "I respectfully decline to answer that question, sir," Fisher said repeatedly, claiming...

• Oklahoma's Senate Leader Admits To Having No Proof of Frivilous Suits

  Jeremy Thurman | January 14, 2008 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  With another legislative session beginning I have promised myself to not post an article against tort reform, or as I like to call it corporate and insurance immunity everday. However, in looking at the Oklahoma Gazette, I have to point something out about the Republican Co-Speaker Glen Coffee and his never ending quest for tort reform to benefit his biggest donors, corporations et. al. In a...

• Is The Truth That Hard To See

  Jeremy Thurman | November 12, 2007 9:18 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As I was perusing the internet this weekend I ventured over and read a couple of blogs from local personality types along with various local news organizations. A couple of these blogs were from right wing pundits in our local media and couples were from left-wing pundits. In reading the right wing local pundits I saw where the blogger was lauding an Oklahoman State Senator for her ethics...

• Oklahoma Governor Vetoes Draconian Tort Reform Bill

  Jeremy Thurman | May 01, 2007 10:27 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Abraham Lincoln once wrote to a colleague that "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is...

• SB 507 Immunity for Doctors

  Jeremy Thurman | April 16, 2007 11:56 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  SB 507 will be heard by the Oklahoma Senate this week. Is a comprehensive tort reform bill that shuts the courthouse doors for injured. Call your state senator, this bill is bad for medical malpractice cases.

• Don't be fooled by the Oklahoman's Tort Reform Editorial

  Jacob Diesselhorst | April 04, 2007 11:22 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Don't be fooled by the Oklahoman's Tort Reform Editorial from April Fool's Day, aimed to further distort the facts regarding Oklahoma 's Civil Justice System. Cited is a study from the Pacific Research Institute, a right-wing mouthpiece which also trumpets that global warming is a hoax and that the war in Iraq is a gleaming success. Instead of rhetoric, let's talk facts. According to the...