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• Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association Awards Sach Oliver Outstanding Young Lawyer

  Drew Dixon | May 07, 2008 8:44 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  The Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association announced today that, Sach Oliver is the recipient of the organization’s 2008 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award.

• President Bush's Medical Malpractice Cap On Damages

  Frank Bailey | May 05, 2008 4:32 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  The Medicare funding package proposed by President Bush includes another attempt to severely limit the rights of injured patients to hold negligent doctors and hospitals accountable. I like to call...

• Birth Injuries And Caps On Damages

  Frank Bailey | May 01, 2008 4:54 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Hardly a day passes when there is not another injustice due to arbitrary caps on damages placed there by legislators without looking at the facts of the case. Just today I read about a birth injury...

• Heprin Contamination Deliberate

  Frank Bailey | April 30, 2008 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  An article in the New York Times outlines how LeRoy Hubley lost his wife and son from an allergic reaction to contaminated heparin. The FDA believes the contamination was deliberate but they have...

• Attorneys Fight "Fake Bad Scale"

  Frank Bailey | April 15, 2008 12:35 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  So the insurance company said you were faking your injuries. There’s a new test defense lawyers are trying to use to show people with legitimate injuries are faking. It’s called the “fake bad...

• Unsafe At Any Speed

  Bailey Bailey | April 13, 2008 1:59 PM | 1 CommentLittle Rock, AR

  The recent grounding of American Airlines’ planes is yet another reminder to me of how large corporations will cut corners for profit. Recently, my law partner, Sach Oliver, and I attended a...

• Settlement in Autism Vaccine Case

  Frank Bailey | March 31, 2008 4:52 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  A breakthrough in autism litigation may open the door for parents who have autistic children to recover for their child's injuries. The government has reached a settlement with Terry and Jon Poling and conceded that the facts of that case meet the statutory criteria for demonstrating that the vaccinations their child received on July 19, 2000, significantly aggravated an underlying...

• Trucking Companies Are Liable for Punitive Damage

  Frank Bailey | March 26, 2008 9:07 AM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Punitive damages against trucking companies may be imposed to punish the trucking company and to deter the trucking company and others from similar conduct. In order to recover punitive damages from a trucking company in Arkansas, a plaintiff must show that the trucking company knew or ought to have known; in the light of the surrounding circumstances that its conduct would naturally and...

• Car Accidents Cause Herniated Disc

  Sach Oliver | March 24, 2008 6:59 AM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Motor vehicle accidents cause herniated disc. A disc is a structure that is found between the spinal vertebral bodies from the neck to the tailbone. Discs serves as cushions and help your spine move. A disc is composed of two parts the central part and the outer part. When someone is a car accident where the back is injured, it is common for them to suffer a herniated disc. A herniated disc is...

• Seatbelts Can Fail

  Frank Bailey | February 27, 2008 4:00 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  As much as we depend on seatbelts to save lives, you would think seatbelts would never fail. This is not always true. A jury in West Palm Beach Florida ordered Mitsubishe to pay $11,000,000 in damages to the parents of their 25 year old son Scott, who died after being partially ejected from a SUV made by Mitsubishi.Attorneys representing the family argued that Mitsubishi sold the SUV even...