Word: plaintiff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nevada has been especially hard hit because it's one of the states with the sharpest rise in malpractice costs. But those costs are climbing nationwide. According to one study, from 1999 to 2000 the median plaintiff's jury award in medical-malpractice cases increased 43%, from $700,000 to $1 million. Last year the MIIX Group, an insurer in 24 states, saw 26 claim payments of more than $1 million. This year it has faced an average of one new $1 million-plus claim every week...
Benjamin G. Edelman ’02, the sole plaintiff in the case, has already spent more time in federal court that most of his fellow rising first-year students at Harvard Law School (HLS). He has worked at the HLS Berkman Center for Internet and Society for more than four years and previously gave expert testimony in a federal case about the constitutionality of the Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which mandated that libraries use Internet filters...
...only every plaintiff in every personal injury lawsuit really were cancer-stricken as a result of some company’s misdeeds, these movies might be an accurate picture of the current legal system. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Everyone is familiar with the stereotype of personal injury lawyers as ambulance chasers, but few people realize just how pervasively these lawyers are damaging American business. In this age of Enron, decent, profitable companies are being driven out of business by the costs of settling thousands of spurious lawsuits...
...their identities and shield their assets from prying governments. With your shell company as host of a nameless Visa or Amex card, you are trading stocks, purchasing cars, paying bills and getting cash from ATMS--and leaving no trail. You are thumbing your nose at grasping creditors, ex-spouses, plaintiff's lawyers and tax collectors. And these days, you are screwed...
...some states don't allow prosecution more than one or five or 10 years after an injured child turns 18. That has freed most predator priests from criminal convictions and long jail terms. But neither side felt it won a resounding victory when the suit filed by a plaintiff against Denver's highly popular Rev. Marshall Gourley was thrown out because the statute of limitation had expired. Gourley maintains his innocence...