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• Hospital Errors Need To Be Reduced

  Staff Writer | February 28, 2006 1:55 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Institute for Health Care Improvement reports that deaths from medical errors are estimated at between 98,000 and 195,000 ever year.According to Dr. Georges Benjamin, many of these errors result from a failure to consistently adopt procedures in hospitals that save lives, such as raising the beds for patients on ventilators to reduce the potential of pneumonia, or to concentrate on sterile...

• Lots of Ads for Medicare

  Staff Writer | February 23, 2006 5:30 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  I keep seeing the ads that tell senior citizens about making proper choices about their medicare and prescription benefits. I wondered who was paying for these ads. I guess it should come as no surprise that the Bush Administration, using tax dollars, has funded these political ads to tout the medicare bill.Since these ads were being paid for by taxpayers, who made the ads and what agency was...

• More Legislation to Hurt Victims

  Staff Writer | February 20, 2006 4:50 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  This weekend, I sat watching a sporting event that was regularly interrupted with the usual commercials. However, one specifically caught my attention because it was accompanied with sad music and an elderly distinguished voice that was telling me to urge my federal legislators to pass a bill that would help make payment to his friend. Because I represent victims, my ears immediately went into...

• Virginia Legislators Are Inconsistent in Trying to Reduce Insurance Rates

  Staff Writer | February 13, 2006 2:11 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Head & Brain Injuries

  I put myself through law school by selling Harley Davidson motorcycles in Virginia Beach, Virginia. At the shop, I would regularly hear riders complain about restrictions and helmet laws. They even wore tattoos that said "Live Free or Die". However, motorcycle helmet laws continued to be enforced and provide safety protection for riders. This past week, we saw a Virginia delegate continue to...

• Does Virginia's Attorney General Still Want to Limit Our Rights to a Trial by Jury?

  Staff Writer | February 13, 2006 2:04 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Today I saw the announcement that Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell will begin to regularly appear on a popular conservative website so that web surfers can blog with him on a weekly basis. In going to the site, they catagorize this announcement as "straight talk from the internet's first elected blogger". My relationship with Attorney General McDonnell goes back to 1991 when he first ran...

• Success as a Virginia Lawyer

  Staff Writer | February 02, 2006 11:18 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  I just finished reading a business article on how to compete with large companies. Its theme was that a small firm can actually have the edge over larger firms, because you do not have to worry about managing large scale organizations at the expense of personal relationship building. This might not specifically address to law firms, but it is applicable to how we have built our law firm. New law...