Entries by Pete Burns

How to pick a lawyer

How should you go about selecting an attorney? Legal skills vary as greatly as the skills of golfers on the pro tour. So how are you to know whether a particular attorney is a pretender or a contender? Anyone can buy advertizing but not everyone can solve your legal problem. The best way to make […]

Lawyers need insurance. Bars need more.

Like everyone lawyers make mistakes that sometimes cost their clients lots of money. I am currently suing two lawyers who are not insured and collection of a judgment will be problematic. Alabama requires drivers to have automobile insurance to protect the public. We should require that lawyers have insurance as well. Unlike lawyers, bars are […]

Child Safety Seats

Amity Insurance Company issued the following suggestions for child safety in vehicles. Thanks to them for this good advice. Infants should ride in rear-facing child safety seats for as long as possible, according to pediatricians and safety experts, and not be switched to a forward-facing seat until he or she is both one-year-old and weighs […]

Health Care Fraud

Bruce Moilan is $5.5 million richer because he blew the whistle on South Texas Health Systems in a qui tam suit. San Antonio Express-News (10/31, Brezovsky) The False Claim Act prohibits hospitals from paying doctors for patient referrals. Reason being the independent judgment of the doctor is compromised if he has a financial stake in […]