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Customer says she feels 'poisoned' after discovering meat in vegetarian meal ordered at a local eatery A Jewish woman from Michigan is suing a restaurant for serving her bacon in an omelet that was supposed be meatless. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories FREE SIGN UP That lawsuit was filed on behalf of Angela Montgomery, 30, of Sterling Heights by her attorney Majed Moughni, the Detroit Free Press reported Monday. Montgomery is seeking monetary damages for emotional and physical distress caused by eating the bacon. She alleged breach of contract and...

Ask Jason Fraser how many jobs he applied for after graduating from a St. Petersburg law school last year and this is what he says: “Maybe 10 or 20 when it was some place I wanted to work. Maybe 50 when I started getting desperate.’’ After searching as far afield as Ocala and Miami, Fraser finally landed a public defender’s post in Pasco County in June. But his months of job-hunting raises another question, one that nags at many in the legal profession: Does Florida have too many lawyers? Since 2000, the number of licensed attorneys has swollen from 60,900...

Trial Lawyers: Why We Love to Hate ThemBy John R. Smith for Bizpac ReviewWhat is it that makes trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers the most despised group, except for career politicians and organized labor? Maybe it's because of the practices they engage in and the morality of their actions.  Let’s sift through the evidence and see if we can find it in our hearts to pity the trial lawyers...Click here to read more.

In June, Philip Alston, the independent U.N. investigator on extrajudicial killings, urged the United States to lay out rules and safeguards, publish figures on civilian casualties and prove it has tried other ways to capture or incapacitate suspects without killing them.

The Michigan Supreme Court has refused to throw out Sheri Schooley's lawsuit against Texas Roadhouse in suburban Detroit. Liberal justices were in the majority in a decision that raises questions about what businesses need to do to protect themselves from liability in strange situations. Schooley, 58, acknowledged it's a "bizarre story." She and her husband were out for dinner on New Year's Eve 2007 when she visited the restroom. "I reached and the cover of the toilet paper dispenser fell down on my hand," the South Rockwood woman told The Associated Press on Monday. "It looked like the dispenser was...

A Sacramento Superior Court jury has awarded a local-record $24.3 million in personal injury damages to a 14-year-old Oregon girl who was run over by a truck driven by her father six years ago. The 10-woman, two-man panel made the damages award Friday in a case where Judge David W. Abbott in December already had found Freeway Transport, Inc., of Portland, liable for the injuries sustained November 2004 by Diana Luleidy Loza-Jimenez. "We're thrilled to see that the jury appreciated the full magnitude of Diana's injuries," plaintiff's lawyer Robert A. Buccola said in an interview today. "She faces at least...

Bronx hospital employees, lawyer charged in insurance fraud scam Employees of the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) received bribes to deliver confidential patient information to personal injury lawyers, city and state officials allege. Six HHC employees and a former HHC employee who worked at Lincoln Hospital, Bronx, and a private attorney, were arrested today on bribery charges in connection with the insurance scheme. According to the office of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo -- who filed the charges -- the information was allegedly used to lure patients into receiving unnecessary treatment and then submitting over a million dollars in phony...

Well, I can finally identify with some of my clients. In my first 41 years of life, I have been relatively injury free. However, that all changed at the AAJ (American Association for Justice) Conference in Philadelphia, PA. On Sunday, July 13, 2008, we decided to run a sponsored 5k (3.1 miles) in Philadelphia. About half of the way through, I was talking to the attorney next to me and not paying attention. At that point, there was a lower area of the sidewalk where a tree was planted, and my left foot folded under, breaking my fibula. Of course,...

DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- An Atlanta tuberculosis patient who may have defied health officials' warnings by going on a wedding trip to Europe appears not to have gotten married, a Greek official said Friday. Mayor Angelos Roussos of Santorini, Greece, said a clerk from the municipality office informed him that Andrew Speaker and his fiancee, Sarah Cooksey, did not have the necessary paperwork for a civil marriage. "He made no previous contact with the town hall about arranging a civil marriage," Roussos said. "So the wedding never happened. He stayed instead at a hotel for two days, the Majestic Hotel,...

Today: August 16, 2006 at 11:0:38 PDT Teens Sent to Jail Over Deer-Decoy Crash ASSOCIATED PRESS KENTON, Ohio (AP) - A judge decided two high school athletes can complete the football season this fall before they serve 60-day jail sentences for a car crash caused by a decoy deer placed in a country road. Two teens were injured. "I shouldn't be doing this, but I'm going to. I see positive things about participating in football," Judge Gary McKinley said Tuesday. Dailyn Campbell, a 16-year-old quarterback for Kenton High, and 17-year-old teammate Jesse Howard will serve their time in a juvenile...

The Truth About Trial Lawyers http://www.thetruthabouttriallawyers.com/ They have the money. They control the candidates. Their agenda is clear. This group is dedicated to telling America the truth about trial lawyers, their efforts to stop legal reform, and the impact of the trial-lawyer lobby in Washington, D.C. The truth is that trial lawyers have hurt everyone from small businesses to good doctors. Personal-injury lawyers claim to fight for "the little guy." But they're not. They're using "the little guy" to get rich. And while they get rich, America suffers… because junk lawsuits don't just hurt doctors and small businesses. They hurt...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"/> January 31, 2004 In Trial Work, Edwards Left a TrademarkBy ADAM LIPTAKand MICHAEL MOSS n 1985, a 31-year-old North Carolina lawyer named John Edwards stood before a jury and channeled the words of an unborn baby girl. Referring to an hour-by-hour record of a fetal heartbeat monitor, Mr. Edwards told the jury: "She said at 3, `I'm fine.' She said at 4, `I'm having a little trouble, but I'm doing O.K.' Five, she said, `I'm having problems.' At 5:30, she said, `I need out.' " But the obstetrician, he argued in an artful...

The civil jury system, John Edwards argues, is good for America. He ought to know. A veteran trial lawyer on a case that confirmed his belief in the true meaning of justice Edwards, a former trial lawyer, says lawsuits deliver justice to average Americans By Sen. John Edwards NewsweekDec. 15 issue - I’ll never forget the first time I met Jennifer Campbell. A charming, determined 5-year-old, she couldn’t walk or feed herself, and still needed a playpen. Because of a doctor’s terrible mistake, she was born with permanent brain damage. I met her loving, determined parents, who were hoping for...

MUST VIEW: Personal Injury Trial Lawyers Own the Daschle/Clinton DemocRAT Senate (Link to Video) ALL FREEPERS -- Please send the link below to everyone on your email list. It is "mandatory" that we give this movie the widest distribution possible. It is "past" time the American people learned the truth about Personal Injury Trial Lawyers and their "cozy" relationship with Daschel/Clinton DemocRAT Senate. This movie gives you that truth! Remember the following when viewing the movie: Dem Trial Lawyer Buddies have contributed $36 million this election alone to Dem candidates. (Federal Election Commission Website, www.fec.gov) LINK TO MOVIE: Personal Injury...

Some of the nation's most notorious personal injury lawyers are mounting an all-out assault on America's healthcare system that could batter it into a smoldering ruin before the next Presidential election. If successful, these unelected and unaccountable lawyers will raise healthcare costs to the point where millions of Americans and their employers may find themselves priced out of the system. Fresh from the tobacco wars and currently representing only a handful of plaintiffs, the lawyers' are attempting to convince a Miami-based federal judge that they should be allowed to represent almost all of the nation's 600,000 physicians as well as...

By Rich Tucker and Gene Frenette Times-Union staff writers A Jacksonville judge has rejected the $5.35 million verdict a jury awarded to former Jaguar Jeff Novak last month, saying Novak failed to prove team doctor Stephen Lucie committed malpractice. "No evidence has been submitted on which the jury lawfully could find and return a verdict for the plaintiff," Circuit Judge Frederick Tygart wrote. Though appealable, the decision is a major setback for Novak because such rulings from trial judges weigh heavily in appellate court deliberations, attorneys say. Novak, reached at his home in Georgetown, Texas, said he will fight the...

By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON(AP) - The Bush administration renewed its push Wednesday to rein in medical malpractice litigation and address soaring insurance costs that are causing many doctors to flee certain communities and high-risk practices. The fresh effort to restrict awards in malpractice cases was seen in a report Wednesday by Health and Human Services Department. President Bush also was making the issue a centerpiece of his visit Thursday to a hospital and university in High Point, N.C. The price of malpractice insurance for certain high-risk specialists increased about 10 percent last year and may rise...