Confessions of a former Allstate insured
I have decided that it’s time for me to come clean. I used to be insured by Allstate.
Fat Food Nation
I know what you’re thinking. First, that the title of the book is Fast Food Nation. And second, that Mr. Schlosser’s book reminds you of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Most people I know would agree that we’re just eating too much high calorie, high sugar, high fat food and it’s affecting almost everything in Read more…
Snowbirds beware!
A recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling could scare away the snowbirds from Arizona (at least for surgeries). The Arizona Supreme Court ruled last week that a jury could award minimal damages to beneficiaries in a wrongful death claim, in this case to the adult children of Jerome Walsh. Mr. Walsh was a Read more…
Excuse me, what was that again?
My regular checkup at the dentist frequently starts off with a discussion about my dental hygiene, but often turns into a legal discussion. My dentist will occasionally tell me to stop talking in legal “mumbo jumbo” (for some reason he tells me of the origins of the phrase). “Wait a minute,” Read more…
Tort reform for beginners
What is tort reform, anyway? If you look in the dictionary, you’ll see the word tort and the word torture have the same root – the latin word for “twisted”. Think of a tort as torture without criminal intent. Or, in nicer words “a wrongful act other than a breach Read more…