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Law Students Are Learning To Be Trial Lawyers In A “Flight Simulator”

Bill Thompson Feb 21, 2024 Access to Courts, Courtroom, Daily, Juries, Trials Comments Off

Law students who would traditionally experience only a few courtroom scenarios over a semester have begun working with programs that can provide an entire array of courtroom curveballs, thanks to large language model artificial intelligence technology. Read more at: https://www.law360.com/personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/1804884?nl_pk=029cff45-637f-44e3-babf-75563f8e0bfd&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=personal-injury-medical-malpractice&utm_content=2024-02-21&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=1?copied=1 Based on real-life experiences, I have suggestions for “curveball” fact patterns to throw at these […]

Jury Awards $30M To Family Of 23-Year-Old Who Died From Ulcer

Bill Thompson Feb 20, 2024 Courtroom, Daily, Damages, Hospitals, Insurance Companies, Medical Error, Medical Malpractice, Patient Safety, Personal Injury Trial Lawyer, Verdicts Comments Off

You don’t often hear about the frivolous and stubborn defenses that anger juries. David Dickey, who represents Hannah Waite’s parents, told Law360 on Friday that he proposed settlements of $250,000 to each doctor, but the defense refused and made no offers of their own. Read more at: https://www.law360.com/personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/1803831?nl_pk=029cff45-637f-44e3-babf-75563f8e0bfd&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=personal-injury-medical-malpractice&utm_content=2024-02-20&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0?copied=1

On Jury Selection

Bill Thompson Dec 27, 2023 Appeals, Automobile Accident, Courtroom, Courts, Daily, Juries, Law, Personal Injury, Trials Comments Off

I have had State Farm adjusters sitting in the venire eager to get on an auto accident jury. In one case, I remember a State Farm adjuster on the venire panel. I used internal State Farm documents with the Judge showing that the insurance carrier encouraged their employees – when called for jury duty – […]

A Difficult Case

Bill Thompson Sep 14, 2023 Clients, Courtroom, Courts, Daily, Hospitals, Medical Error, Medical Malpractice, Quality Fraud, Sovereign Immunity, Statutes, Trials, Wrongful Death Comments Off

I have litigated similar issues regarding the duty a hospital owes to relatives of a patient, intentional infliction of emotional distress, wrongful death, and immunity. Here is a link to the reported appeals decision in my case. These are difficult cases, trying for all involved. Press attention can help but can also add to the […]

How Juries Tend To Perceive Corporations

Bill Thompson Aug 28, 2023 Courtroom, Daily, Juries, Personal Injury Trial Lawyer, Trials, Verdicts Comments Off

Jury Selection inevitably raises interesting social issues that can affect the outcome of your case. The article linked below reveals a relevant issue when a large corporation is a party. To those involved in corporate litigation, the public’s shifting views toward company loyalty and the employer-employee relationship beg the question: How might experiences and attitudes […]

Defense Raises New Argument After Trial To Escape $12M Verdict, Blaming a “Prejudicial” Animation

Bill Thompson May 17, 2023 Courtroom, Courts, Daily, Law, Negligence, Trials, Wrongful Death Comments Off

Evidentiary issues during the trial need to be preserved in order to be protected on appeal. In oral argument before a three-judge panel in Miami, Discount Rock & Sand’s attorney Andrea Cox told the appeals court that the district court judge erred in allowing jurors to view what she called a “horror show of an […]

The ‘Win At Any Cost’ Mentality of Insurance Defense

Bill Thompson May 16, 2023 Courtroom, Courts, Daily, Ethics, Law, Medical Malpractice, News, Trials Comments Off

Over one hundred thousand dollars in sanctions upheld against an insurance defense lawyer for deliberately poisoning a trial to benefit his client. And it worked – at least for his client, if not for him. I am not surprised in the least. Plaintiffs: Choose your lawyer carefully, and this won’t happen. Hurt was representing the […]

Chest Fever

Bill Thompson May 1, 2023 Courtroom, Juries, Music, NerdLife, Pop Culture, Weekly Comments Off

And as my mind unweaves, I feel the freeze down on my knees. Chest Fever was Garth Hudson’s moment to shine in The Band’s live performances. He was allowed to stretch out on the organ, often introducing the song with a proggy solo they called “The Genetic Method”. Peter Viney called the lyrics “dummy words”, […]

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