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March 15th, 2012
Judicial Hellholes California, Florida, New York and West Virginia were home to some of the most absurdly outsized (and costly to us all) medical liability verdicts since 2010. . . . → Read More: Judicial Hellholes Spurring Costly Trend toward More Giant-Sized Medical Liability Awards
May 26th, 2011
Borrowing from the playbook of parasitic personal injury lawyers who have made South Florida the auto accident insurance-fraud capital of America, an attorney from Bethesda, Maryland, got in over his head and has been popped in a sting operation . . . → Read More: Maryland Lawyer Emulated South Florida Counterparts, Now Faces up to 20 Years in Prison
May 4th, 2011
The Florida legislature today passed an important tort reform bill that will empower jurors to hear all of the relevant facts in car accident cases where negligence on the part of driver is alleged. . . . → Read More: Florida Legislature Passes Important Tort Reform
April 29th, 2011
Past Judicial Hellholes reporting has documented ADA scam artists in California, Florida and elsewhere. But now Dallas-Fort Worth’s WFAA-TV reports that the scourge has spread to the Lone Star State, with help from a camera-shy shyster in the Sunshine State . . . → Read More: Wheelchair-Bound Woman in Texas Aids and Abets ADA Scam Artist Based in Florida
April 27th, 2011
South Florida drunk-driver defense lawyer Mark Gold is suing a strip club, claiming to have been too drunk one evening last November to be held legally responsible for the nearly $19,000 tab he rang up . . . → Read More: ‘Gold’ Medal for Chutzpah: DUI Defense Lawyer Sues Miami Strip Club, Says He Was Too Drunk to Be Responsible for Huge Tab
April 25th, 2011
The Florida Supreme Court has suspended for three years the license of a plaintiff’s attorney featured in the Rogues Gallery section of the latest Judicial Hellholes report . . . → Read More: Florida Lawyer Featured in ‘Rogues Gallery’ Suspended for Three Years
April 13th, 2011
A new report by Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation offers the latest confirmation of the fact that costly auto accident fraud is on the rise in Florida . . . → Read More: New Report Shows Rising Auto Accident Fraud as Reforms Advance in Tallahassee
March 31st, 2011
As the first quarter of 2011 draws to a close, it’s an appropriate time to update both some bad news and good news from once and future Judicial Hellholes . . . → Read More: Q1 Updates on Once and Future ‘Judicial Hellholes’
February 3rd, 2011
Q-Why do personal injury lawyers engage in PIP fraud? A-They have great expectations . . . → Read More: Literary Joke of the Day
February 3rd, 2011
With Florida struggling to contain a costly epidemic of insurance fraud, personal injury lawyers convening in Miami this week should be asked what steps they’re willing to take to help reduce such fraud . . . → Read More: Will Trial Lawyers, Convened In Miami, Stand Against ‘PIP’ Fraud?
January 19th, 2011
As many of the ambulance-chasers driving this latest wave of phony-injury insurance scams submit bills for 26-hour days, meetings with the dead, or meetings that otherwise never took place, regulators say “the filing of [such] lawsuits is out of control” . . . → Read More: South Florida’s Personal Injury Lawyers Drive Insurance Scams While Auto Premiums Soar
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