Archive for September, 2007
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.
“I woke up because the pain was unbearable,” Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.
His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband’s body only to find him moved into a corridor — and alive.
Story here.
Tags: accident, medical malpractice
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Okay, it probably wasn’t the greatest idea for this fellow to walk into a bar in Oklahoma City wearing a Longhorn t-shirt, but did he deserve to be “partially castrated” (as described on the radio, but tastefully not elaborated upon in the FWST) by a zealous Sooner fan?
“I’ve actually heard callers on talk radio say that this guy deserved what he got for wearing a Texas T-shirt into a bar in the middle of Sooner country,” said Irven Box, an attorney in this city 20 miles from OU’s campus in Norman.
C’mon, people.
Tags: texas
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
For the trial lawyers out there, here’s a great new book by Rick Friedman and Patrick Malone: Rules of the Road: A Plaintiff Lawyer’s Guide to Proving Liability. This book emphasizes how jurors are called upon to make a collective decision about subjective concepts like “reasonableness,” and how defense lawyers use complexity, confusion and ambiguity to derail the plaintiff’s case. By developing several irrefutable “rules of the road” during discovery and at trial, the plaintiff lawyer provides the jurors with objective evidence against which to measure the defendant’s actions. And if done right, the defendant and the defense witnesses must either agree with the rules or look foolish for disagreeing with them. Powerful book. It describes and explains a method that many successful plaintiff lawyers have learned through trial and error. It’s no secret that jurors are highly skeptical of personal injury cases (the recent “$54 million pants lost by dry cleaners” case is the new “McDonald’s hot coffee” case that comes up in every voir dire these days), so anytime a tool comes along that helps lawyers working for consumers, grab it.
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