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A comment on Man vs. Machine

SCB — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:17:14 GMT

Let's not overlook the obvious - did the owner/driver maintain the vehicle properly? Were the tires properly inflated, regularly checked by professionals. Statistics show many people fail to check their tires regularly and have routine maintenance done.

A comment on Don't Pay What You Don't Owe

Mike Bryant — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:52:10 GMT

It's important to talk to attorneys that do this work and are good at dealing with these issues. Very good advice.

A comment on Off the Record

Mike Bryant — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:50:58 GMT

They know what to ask and they are always asking the questions to save money. Very good advice.

A comment on When Hit and Run Accidents Leave You in a Lurch

Mike Bryant — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:27:17 GMT

Very helpful post , with a great angle on the issue. This is very helpful.

A comment on Caps on Medical Malpractice undermine the Civil Justice System

Jerry Hayes — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:21:22 GMT

I desparately need an injury attorney to represent me in my lawsuit for injury and Medical Malpractice in Idaho.

Can you help me yourself as I am being the paralyzed victim of Idaho politics and a ridiculous Damages Cap here.

I can share in the costs of my case if you will represent me. If I can not get representation soon, the judge will probably kill my case. I am 100 percent mentally and physically disabled , brain damage and paralysis due to Emergency room failure to perform differential evaluation analysis when I had all the symptoms to alert the doctor to do blood test for West Nile Disease and Encephelitis.

The ER Physician spent no more than 1 or 2 minutes and after an IV, he sent me home saying I only have heat exhaustion. After 7 days of the wrong diagnosis and the exactly wrong recovery direction, I woke up a week later falling to the floor now permanently paralyzed in my legs. After 8 days in a coma near death and after 10 weeks in the VA hospital, now I struggle to exist alone with no one helping me except VA Hospital doctor.

PLEASE CONTACT ME and help me any way tou can. I NEED an attorney from outside Idaho! I can not fight this battle alone any longer!

Sincerely,

Jerry G. Hayes
Eagle, Idaho

A comment on Some People Get It and Some Don't

Deborah Calvert — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:58:08 GMT

I can tell you nursing homes need reform badly. My mother was put in one after I cared for her at home 6 yrs. I visited her in the nursing home every day, sometims three visits per day. I became so confident they were caring well for her because she so enjoyed being around her peers, that I didn't ever read her medical chart or ask her physician questions I should have. When a neighbor at the home showed me the filthy air vents on the floor where air came thru for heat and air and ventilation I was amazed. When the state agency governing such equipment came out they immediately taped all vents closed and disabled the system -condemning it in writing. Filth was coming into the hospital. That's not all: blood pressure monitors were found to be broken a month or two before that. This continued although I'd written to Sun Healthcare's CEO Rick Matros to please fix or repair them. We soon after learned an injunction existed against Sun Healthcare in the State of Calif not to have this broken equipment again, as they'd killed patients in a Burlingame, Calif facility in 2001. This was 2003. The medical director Dr L Scott Stoney pleaded with management to repair or replace the HVAC system for the patient's health and when he saw patients harmed he gave notice and quit. My mother contracted the super bug MRSA from this Sunbridge facility in Newport Beach, California, where the CEO of Sun Healthcare even lives. CEO Rick Matros sent an employee Julie Campbell on Saturdays to meet with me and apologize, providing me with her home phone number even, to call at any time of the day or night for help. My mother suffered a nine month long horrific death, unable to swallow because of a stroke they caused, renal failure, respiratory problems from teh MRSA and lack of ventilation in the facility, she was in acute care hospital most of the final 6 months of her life. During this time I hired an attorney and we met with Sun Healthcare's lead counsel, kelly Priengtz and Dr Hunker a board Member at my attorney's offices. We asked to settle then, before she died, so that the funds could be used for her benefit solely. I wasn't interested in making money off her suffering. They asked me to fax the Dept of Health statements that were 60 pages long. Then we never heard from them. My mother died four months later. I sued three yrs later. But when I went to the settlement negotiations my attorney, Daniel Leipold, gave me messages from the CEO of SUN Rick Matros, that if I pursued this case to a jury trial he would rip me a new axxhole and make me out to be a crazy woman. That they were punishing me for writing too many complaining letters to Mr. Matros and deducted $20,000 from the amount we'd gotten to at that point in negotiations. Mr. Leipold screamed in my right ear "You're not getting the keys to Rick Matros' Bentley". These threats and coercion caused me to sign of on a fraud charge instead of wrongful death, elder abuse, intentional infliction of emotional distress and pain & suffering. We could prove willful misconduct by CEO and board member Dr Hunker, as he'd written me a letter stating they weren't repairing or replacing that broken HVAC system. And therefore I was due treble damages (triple). About $3-$4 Million. I attempted to file a motion with an attorney I hired, Keith Wisbaum of Laguna Beach, but he never filed it for me, no excuse, just too busy -even after paying him $$$$$$ to do so. Then the courts denied my request to set the settlement aside and I was stuck with it. All the while I'm recovering from pancreatic precancerous surgery done at UCLA just a few months earlier. When I regained my strength I hired a malpractice attorney, Eugen Andres, and sued Leipold for malpractice -he died 2 weeks after learning I'd hired him. I won that case. I'd delivered a poster to Rick Matros' gate guard in Newport Beach, stating "Here he lives with a view of the sea; slumlord for the elderly; RICK MATROS CEO of Sun Heatlhcare Group inc who lives in Newport Coast, patients died from neglect, Dept of Health cited for lack of staffing, NO HVAC in patient rooms." Mr Matros attempted to file a restraining order against me. But the Judge, Gregory W. Jones, in Orange County Harbor Court, stated "NO, she's not a danger to him or anyone. He's the dangerous one. He killed her mother. She did a whole lot less than I would have done if I were her. Delivering a sign calling him a slumlord is freedom of speech, protected speech, peaceful protest. She proved here he is a slumlord she certainly can state it. The Plaintiff just produced evidence that she doesn't know what he looks like. Doesn't know what car he drives. How can I ask her to avoid someone she doesn't even know? How can I ask her to stay 100 ft away from cars you say he doesn't even own?" NO -it was all quite funny. That Judge said SUN illegally barred me from contacting SUN's board of directors, since I was in pro per. Recently I've contacted them so they can see this fraud.

A comment on Bars Serving to Laker Parade Attendees Are Immune From Lawsuits

Mike Bryant — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:30:16 GMT

It has always made sense to me that drunks shouldn't be served and especially bars shouldn't make money off it. Hope the legislator will look at this. There are far to many innocents that are affected by these action. Keep bringing this issue to light.

A comment on California Insurance Companies Are Immune From Third Party Bad Faith Cases

Lawrence Knapp — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:40:28 GMT

You're certainly entitled to your anonymous opinion. However, your allegation that premiums would skyrocket if bad faith once again became law in CA is baseless. Just as baseless as when the California legislature was lied to by the insurance industry back in 1975 in order to coerce the passage of MICRA. A cap on medical malpractice premiums that was supposedly going to prevent premiums from skyrocketing. 30 years later the cap still exists, premiums have skyrocketed and so have insurance industry profits. Your riding the wrong horse. The insurance industry is taking us all for a ride.

A comment on California Insurance Companies Are Immune From Third Party Bad Faith Cases

Anti ambulance chaser — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:55:31 GMT

What absolute self-serving nonsense. The only motivation for an attorney promoting third party bad faith is so he can try to "cash in" on the deep pockets of the insurance industry. What he doesn't say is that those deep pockets are created through consumers insurance premiums, which would skyrocket if bad faith once again became law in CA.

A comment on Some People Get It and Some Don't

Mike Bryant — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:55:59 GMT

Very important and helpful post. Sometimes it is amazing both ways what anonymous people will write in comments.