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• South Carolina Health Care and Kickback

  Staff Writer | July 22, 2006 12:18 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  I just read that the Marion County Medical Center in Marion County South Carolina has agreed to pay $3.7 million to settle allegations of health care fraud that they had committed against the government. The fraud allegation revolved around charges that the medical center had submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and the U.S. Military Health Care System. It was alleged that they had...

• Legal System Under Fire

  Staff Writer | July 21, 2006 10:03 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  This week, the Association of Trial Attorneys of America voted to change their name. This organization, of which I am a member, adopted the new name of the American Association for Justice. This change of the name is not merely some public relations ploy, but is an attempt to reflect what our purpose is. For more than two hundred years, justice has been provided through the American judicial...

• Ken Lay's Political Funeral

  Staff Writer | July 13, 2006 11:45 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  I read USA Today's report, which detailed the eulogies and remembrances of Ken Lay. Not surprisingly, many of his friends took the opportunity to defend Ken Lay and tell the audience that he was a good person. One mourner even stated that he was a "victim of a lynching".None of us will ever really know the kind of man or the kind of character within Ken Lay. However, from a distance, when you...

• Tick Tock for No Helmet

  Staff Writer | July 10, 2006 6:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Previously, I wrote a blog on the benefits of wearing a helmet while riding a motorcycle. In fact, this blog was based upon my personal experience of seeing many clients who had suffered a brain injury, while riding without a helmet. Our law firm has an office in Virginia, that requires motorcycle riders to wear a helmet. We also have an office in South Carolina, where there is no helmet law...

• A Robe Is A Robe

  Staff Writer | July 06, 2006 10:52 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  As a kid, we would see bagpipe players wearing skirts and often joke about what they were wearing underneath. Sometimes in the practice of law, I have seen judges jokingly remark that they no longer had to worry about their suit selection because of the covering of the robe.Apparently, an Oklahoma Judge took the covering of a robe to a criminal activity. Recently, an Oklahoma jury convicted...

• The Effects of Brain Injury

  Staff Writer | July 05, 2006 11:22 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Head & Brain Injuries

  In my practice, I see the effects of traumatic brain injury. Unfortunately, many times certain symptoms of brain injury have gone completely undiagnosed by the attending physicians. Initially, emergency and rescue is usually called to the scene to treat life threatening conditions that may be present. Then, the injured party may be taken to the hospital, where they are treated for certain...