Recent content by 2biguns

Funny thing is how much of our (Alabama's) current growth is due to foreign companies and those pesky non-English speaking feriners--from the Germans who came with our Mercedes plant to those funny little people at the Honda and Hundai plants. Huntsville owes much of its properity to Werner Van...

My daughter just ate a booger.

I've practiced law for 23 years and for the first 15 or so, you could usually count on a target of 3 times specials for a settlement figure and typically a jury would do the same (theory being 1/3 for the doctor, 1/3 for injured party and 1/3 for lawyer). Here, that rule has been thrown out the...

My dad has practiced law for 52 years and has seen the pendulum swing from the plaintiffs/trial lawyers running the show to the defendants/insurance companies. Right now, insurance companies carry the big stick. In Alabama, Carl Rove engineered the most brilliant campaigns in a couple of our...

I'm a small-town lawyer in Alabama and can give you some insight into this. "Soft-tissue injury" is a term which was invented by the insurance industry in an attempt to minimize whiplash-type injuries and give defense lawyers a way to claim that there is no real injury. After the republicans...

Having been invited by Robert (Magicfloat) to check out this thread, as a small-town lawyer, let me reply. To borrow a quote from my friend, Hank Williams, Jr., "you were getting screwed and you wasn't getting kissed." A simple ingress/egress easement in Cullman, Alabama, would set you back...