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10/07/2012 // Tallahassee, FL, USA // Florida Justice Association (Press Release) (Blog) // Debra HenleyJust as they successfully defeated three Iowa Supreme Court justices by injecting money and politics into the election in 2010, a Koch brothers founded conservative group and the FL Republican party is trying to influence the election and oust three justic […]

09/30/2012 // Tallahassee, FL, USA // Florida Justice Association // Florida Justice AssociationAfter the vote was in on August 14, 2012 for the District 5 School Board seat in St. Johns County – FJA member Patrick Canan was the winner. “WE DID IT!!!” he tweeted, “I want to thank everyone for their dedicated support throughout my campaign!” Canan has been in […]

08/08/2012 // Tallahassee, FL, USA // Florida Justice Association (Press Release) (Blog) // Debra HenleyThe Attorney General of Florida, Pam Biondi, is quoted as saying that this “agreement makes Florida whole for the deceptive practices that misled consumers and defrauded the Medicaid program,” but the question is will it change corporate behavior and will […]

07/11/2012 // Tallahassee, FL, USA // Florida Justice Association (Press Release) (Blog) // Debra HenleyThe False Claims Act, more commonly known as the federal whistleblower law, has again been wielded to protect citizens from the profiteering of drug companies promoting the off-label use of their drugs. The resulting fines levied against two pharmaceutical […]

09/06/2011 // Tallahassee, Florida, US // Florida Justice Association // Florida Justice AssociationDaryl Parks, partner at Parks & Crump of Tallahassee, has been elected President of National Bar Association. Excerpt from The Florida Bar News: As a boy growing up in Haines City, Daryl Parks picked oranges after school and on the weekends alongside his m […]

11/20/2013 // Hartford, CT, USA // cttriallawyers (Press Release) // Neil FerstandThe four leading causes of medical errors: medication errors, hospital-induced infections, lack of technical skills and surgical errors, including wrong body parts and patients are still way too prevalent in our healthcare system, but certain less discussed components of Obama […]

10/30/2013 // Hartford, CT, USA // cttriallawyers (Press Release) // Neil FerstandIn a startling article, the Center for Public Integrity lays out how the firm of choice for the coal industry, major polluters and purveyors of bad drugs utilized a strategy that included withholding evidence of black lung. In one specific case, they did not disclose the diagno […]

08/02/2013 // Hartford, CT, USA // cttriallawyers // Douglas P. MahoneyThe allegations of criminal conduct by Attorney Haddad and the doctors with whom he was affiliated are deeply disturbing. Although Attorney Haddad is only one of the thousands of attorneys licensed in CT, the charges are significant. Further, any time there is fraudulent billing by health […]

08/02/2013 // Hartford , Connecticut, US // cttriallawyers (Press Release) (Blog) // Connecticut Trial Lawyers AssociationWe certainly should not ignore something that as a matter of public policy would be good for the community in that it may deter people from engaging in the very dangerous behavior of using handheld devices while operating a motor vehicle. […]

08/01/2013 // Hartford, Connecticut, US // cttriallawyers (Press Release) (Blog) // Connecticut Trial Lawyers AssociationLast week a jury in Oregon awarded a woman $18.6 million in a case against the credit bureau, Equifax. Ms. Miller tried for two years to have Equifax fix the errors in her credit report. She asserted that Equifax' failure to correct h […]