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Judge: No Mulligans for Defendants on Medical-Legal Exams 19 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
Who do I see about a mulligan on my choice of experts? In golf, a mulligan is a do-over. You whack the ball deep into the woods, you yelp “Mulligan!” and tee up a new one. When you’re out with your b...
Can New Protective Order Law Be Used for Facebook Demands? 7 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
The New York Law Journal has a short article today on an expansion of New York law regarding protective orders from over-reaching discovery. Governor Cuomo signed it yesterday. While it has long been...
Doctor Testifies That Six Different Signatures Are All His 5 Aug 2013 | 03:59 pm
Dr. Joseph Tuvia Last Monday, I wrote up the story of Dr. Joseph Tuvia, a local radiologist who seems to have a propensity for vastly differing signatures made under penalty of perjury. And when I sa...
Ribbeck Law in Hot Seat (Again) Over Air Crash Solicitation 2 Aug 2013 | 03:56 pm
Back in 2009 I wrote a couple times about Chicago based Ribbeck Law Firm’s attempts to procure clients after a plane crash in Buffalo. I questioned whether it was violating both New York’s 30-day mor...
Industrializing the Legal Profession 2 Aug 2013 | 01:15 am
The slick marketing packet landed on my desk and, just as I was about to toss it into the circular file — which is actually rectangular but that isn’t the point of this post — the tagline for the comp...
To Tell the Truth: Which Doctor’s Signature is the Real One? 30 Jul 2013 | 07:27 pm
Dr. Joseph Tuvia I thought I was done, for the time being, ripping scabs off the lacerations and lesions of New York’s medical-legal evaluation industry. Boy was I wrong. Over the transom this week ...
Quickie Medical Exams: What Next? 23 Jul 2013 | 07:44 pm
So? Now what? I started this series with the story of one doctor, Michael Katz, getting busted on the witness stand for lying about a defense medical exam that lasted less than two minutes. I followe...
Premature Evaluations – The Evidence on Quickie Medical-Legal Exams 16 Jul 2013 | 03:42 pm
When I started this series, dear reader, I had no idea it would be so easy to find multiple doctors doing 1,000- 2,000 medical legal exams each year, and that I would be able to demonstrate that their...
Programming Note on Quickie Medical-Legal Exam Series 12 Jul 2013 | 07:09 pm
Thus far I’ve done three pieces this week on quickie defense medical exams, starting with Dr. Michael J. Katz getting busted for lying, the sanctions he may face and an investigative analysis of some ...
So, Just How Short Were Dr. Katz’s Medical-Legal Exams? (updated) 10 Jul 2013 | 03:21 pm
In part one of this series on defense medical exams I wrote about Dr. Michael J. Katz getting busted for lying on the witness stand about the one minute and 56 second orthopedic exam he did in Bermejo...
