by Paul Alan Levy Last month I wrote about a proceeding in which Michigan’s Attorney Grievance Commission was investigating Steven Gursten, a Michigan lawyer who had criticized Dr. Rosalind Griffin, a member of the state disciplinary apparatus, for perjuring herself in expert testimony in one of his cases. I argued that the very process of […]
by Paul Alan Levy The lawyers for Gordon Austin, the former Carrollton Georgia dentist who filed a lawsuit over the YouTube posting of a news report about his indictment for having beat his patients with a dental instrument when, insufficiently anesthetized, they cried out in pain, have now withdrawn his subpoena to identify the poster, paid […]
Bloomberg has this story on Zales' parent Signet Jewelers, which some analysts say "is pushing the limits of credit and accounting so far that it’s starting to look less like a jewelry business and more like a finance company."
President Obama's recently proposed fiscal-year 2017 budget includes two new healthcare proposals: (1) requiring drug companies to disclose various production costs for specific drugs, including research and development costs; and (2) and allowing the HHS Secretary to negotiate with drug companies on certain high-cost drug prices under Medicare Part D. Read about these proposals, and […]
A fascinating and heart-wrenching piece, here.
Law professor Robert Rabin has written Intangible Damages in American Tort Law: A Roadmap. Here is the abstract: This paper is meant to provide a succinct roadmap to the many pathways taken in providing recovery for intangible harm in tort. The paper was initially prepared for a comparative law conference, and in that setting, I assumed […]
NPR reports on a troubling proposal: penalizing insured individuals who don't maintain a low enough body mass index or BMI. New proposed regulations would permit employers to charge workers more for health insurance if they are overweight as measured by BMI. There are several problems here. For instance, experts explain that millions of healthy Americans […]
Natali Helberger of the University of Amsterdam – Institute for Information Law has written Profiling and Targeting Consumers in the Internet of Things – A New Challenge for Consumer Law. Here is the abstract: What does the shift from buying ‘things’ to buying ‘smart things’ imlies for consumers and consumer protection law and policy? The […]
This article by Scott Graham explains that Uber has settled a couple cases about the way it advertises its $1-$2 so-called "safe ride" fee. Here are some excerpts: The on-demand ride service Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to pay $28.5 million to settle two San Francisco class actions over the way it advertises its services. Uber announced […]
According to this Gallup report, the U.S. obesity rate has hit a new high — 28% — up 2.5 percentage points since just 2008. Here are some excerpts from the report: In addition to the 28.0% who are obese, another 35.6% of adults are classified as overweight, with 34.6% normal weight and 1.8% underweight, as reported […]