October 24, 2010, ERIE, PA — Tom Baker’s “The Medical Malpractice Myth” is a book I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone interested in tort reform. Baker, a professor of law and health science at Penn and a sought after consultant to insurance companies, has assembled an eminently readable and entirely empirical deconstruction of the false assumptions relied upon by those who…
Read More October 24, 2010, Erie, PA — An Erie lawyer has been named President of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute . Craig R. F. Murphey will serve this year as president of the Pennsylvania insurance industry organization devoted to minimizing compensation to injured people. Atty. Murphey is a good friend and one of my former partners at MacDonald Illig Jones & Britton…
Read More October 23, 2010, ERIE, PA — On Thursday, Scott Bonnell had 14 cars in his car repair body shops. All of them damaged by collisions with deer. Yep, it’s fall and deer are out on the roads. The beginning of the fall mating season and the beginning of hunting season coincide to drive deer from the woods and out on…
Read More October 22, 2010, ERIE, PA — A man will be charged in the Thursday morning crash that cut power to an eastside Erie neighborhood and forced the closing of a school for the day. John Wickham, 39, of Erie was driving his 1997 Chevrolet Blazer in the vicinity of Fairmount Parkway and McClelland Avenue shortly after midnight when he lost…
Read More October 20, 2010, North East, PA — An Erie motorcycle accident at the intersection of Cole Road and Route 89 has left a man in serious condition at Hamot Hospital. Daniel Mundaniohl, 65, of North East Township, was on his 2008 Honda motorcycle at the time of the accident. He was wearing a helmet. Little is known about how the…
Read More October 20, 2010, Millcreek, PA — Two Millcreek Township police officers were hurt when their unmarked police car was rear-ended on Interchange Road yesterday. Lt. Michael Kabaskinski and Sgt. Michael Little were taken to Hamot Medical Center after the Erie car crash. Both were treated and released. The Millcreek car accident occurred when Kate Ludwig, of Erie, was traveling west…
Read More October 18, 2010, Erie, PA — An Erie car accident last Friday put an Erie woman in Hamot Medical Center where she remained in fair condition Sunday. The accident, first reported in this blog HERE , occurred Friday about 5:30 p.m. on Route 99/Edinboro Road near Reichert Road. The injured woman, Emily Wetherbee, 24, of Erie, was northbound on Route…
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