The term “pain and suffering” rolls off peoples’ tongues as if everyone knows what it means. It is a legal term that represents a particular category of damage—it is the emotional distress endured as a result of a third party’s negligent acts. Emotional distress covers a wide range of adverse effects, including emotional or psychological […]
The most common accident I see here in Mississippi is a “rear-end” car accident, where one automobile strikes another from behind. A host of physical injuries ranging from whiplash to death can result from this sort of accident, some of them develop immediately while others take years to become a debilitating problem. Cars often suffer […]
I have represented countless people here in Mississippi injured in workplace accidents. While I have seen a wide variety of accident types, forklift injuries represent a recurring theme. Forklifts can be dangerous for many reasons, including ineffective driver training, overloading, lack of maintenance, or unsafe driving conditions. While any one of these dangers can harm […]
In recent days, I have watched with interest as attorneys begin to file cases on behalf of people tragically gunned down in Las Vegas last year by a gunman firing from a window in the Mandalay Bay Casino. The theory of these cases that are now percolating up is that the casino was negligent in […]
The Mississippi legislature ended a special session last month by agreeing to distribute $750 million of BP Oil Spill settlement money. Because so many of my clients here in Mississippi were affected by the Spill and continue to live with its aftermath, I wanted to go over the terms of this decision and its effects. […]
The financial crisis of 2008 was caused in large part by “too big to fail” banks recklessly offering subprime mortgage loans. Subprime means that the people who were taking the loans were unlikely to be able to pay them back. Large tranches, or groups, of these loans were bundled and sold to banks across the […]
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