Multiple medical malpractice experts testified Tuesday in a case against a former Merrillville, IN, nose doctor who allegedly fled the country on the heels of hundreds of lawsuits. Mark Weinberger is facing 350 medical malpractice claims, as well as $5.7 million in creditor claims and 22 criminal counts of billing fraud, state and federal court records show.

When we build homes, roadways, bridges, waterlines or utilities lines there is always a concern for completing the project on time, within a budget and for a profit. Delays are a major reason of projects losing money. Sometimes managers don’t even know why their project is delayed, but it happens. Besides the day-to-day operation that [...]

In Special Legal Report: Daubert Challenges Ten Years After Kumho Tire, Sherrye Henry, Jr, Esq., BVWire Legal Editor writes:
It’s been ten years since the U.S. Supreme Court expanded its ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to all types of technical expert testimony—including financial experts and business appraisers—in Kumho Tire v. Carmichael. PriceWaterhouseCoopers has just released its new Daubert Challenges to Financial Experts: A Ten-year Study of Trends and Outcomes, 2000 to 2009. After examining over 5,200 Daubert challenges to expert witnesses of all types, in federal and state courts, the PwC study concludes:

Atlanta Gas Light Co.’s rates should be reduced rather than raised, the Georgia Public Service Commission’s Public Interest Advocacy Staff recommended this week. In testimony filed on Thursday, economic expert witness Lane Kollen, called by the PSC staff, suggested a reduction of $15.6 million in AGL’s base rates. The gas utility is asking the commission for a rate increase of $54.2 million.

Introduction to Alcohol Abuse Effects
Alcohol abuse effects are a major medical and social problem. Alcohol can be toxic to the brain. Driving or operating automobiles or any other vehicles while under the influence of alcohol is dangerous. Legislation around the country has enacted various rules mandating fines and penalties for driving under the influence of [...]

Mark Lujan, the regional manager of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program, tried to counter some of the myths about flood insurance at a recent public forum in Oklahoma City. “Even if you are in a low-risk flood zone you can get flood insurance,” Lujan said. “You can get it, and it is very inexpensive.” Most of those affected by last month’s floods in Oklahoma City qualified for inexpensive insurance but didn’t know it, the expert said.

The eastern Skamania County, WA, home of Ford and Christina Huntington has been the subject of a legal dispute since 2005. The Skamania County residents learned house was on neighbor’s property 8 years after it was built. Their neighbor, Noel Proctor, sued the Huntingtons to get them off his property (and to take their house with them.)

Most agencies want this delineation to be placed back to the original configuration, either in permanent or temporary stripping. Typically, government agencies follow the following guidelines as follows:
Stripping as laneline or centerline pavement delineation shall be provided at all times for travelways open to public traffic.
When constructing multilane roadways (freeways and expressways) edgeline delineation shall [...]

Bridge collapses like the one on the Barton Highway on Saturday ”happen in Third World and developing nations but rarely in Australia”, according to Australian bridge engineering experts. Structural engineering academics struggled yesterday to name similar Australian examples from the past where a bridge being built had collapsed during this phase of construction. While not being able to pinpoint why the bridge in north Canberra fell down, they all expected lengthy investigative or legal processes to determine who or what was to blame.

In Why is heat such a killer? Claire O’Connell writes:
Wildfires in Russia and a death at the world sauna championships have served as recent reminders in the news that the human body does not always fare that well at high temperatures. More generally, it’s not unusual to read reports of fatalities during intense heat waves in Europe and the US – so why is heat such a killer?