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Stop Sexting

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, you may be thinking of a way to spice up your love life. Sexting is not going to do the trick; you really need to think twice about posting your love life online or texting it. Sending photographs of a sexual nature via electronic media is considered sexting. Technology has transformed the way we interact; unfortunately due to the ease by which we communicate with cell phones, Facebook and email it has also led to dangerous and destructive behaviors including forms of sexual harassment.

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Legality Reading Spouse’s Email

A husband is going to trail on Valentines Day, for going into his wife’s email account. As the electronic world evolves so does the concept of what is FRAUDULENT ACCESS TO COMPUTERS. Many states and Michigan in particular, are wrestling with how to interpret the law around marital privacy, especially when it comes to accessing a spouse’s email, social media, text or voice mail accounts without their permission.

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Protecting Your Assets

Homeowners and rental insurance not only protects your dwelling but also the contents of your home. Whether you own or rent the contents of your home can be one of your biggest assets and protecting your assets is very important. The information contained in your insurance policy defines what is protected and varies from policy to policy; you need to know what protection you have in case of a problem.

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Surgical Errors Continue to Persist in High Numbers

The recent report published in the Archives of Surgery in October 2010 paints a grim picture regarding surgical errors. According to the report, there is a “persisting high frequency of surgical ‘never events, or errors that are entirely preventable and should never occur, despite the fact that hospitals must abide by a universal protocol of […]

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Maryland’s Highest Court Upholds Cap on Non-Economic Damages

In April, we reported that the Court of Appeals of Maryland heard oral arguments in a case regarding personal injury damage caps. In the case being appealed, the parents of a young child who had drowned received a jury award of $4 million for their pain and suffering, but the damages were reduced to $1 […]

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Illinois Appeals Court Holds Injured Plaintiff Was Entitled To More Damages

In Anderson v. Zamir, No. 5-08-0542, the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District, took the unusual step of reversing a jury verdict and remanding the case to the trial court for a new trial on the issue of damages. In Anderson, the plaintiff was injured in a car accident with the defendant, in which the […]

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Wrongful Death Compensation Calculations

Ronald Miller at the Maryland Personal Injury Lawyer blog recently discussed an interesting Chicago Law Review article, Dollars and Death, 72 U. Chi. L. Rev. 537 (2005). The article is authored by Eric Posner (Judge Richard Posner’s son) and Cass Sunstein. In the article, the authors examine ways to make wrongful death compensation more uniform […]

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Family of Worker Killed on the Job can Sue Third Party -Logo Liability Imposed on Owner of Truck

By Howard Ankin Illinois attorneys might be surprised by the recent holding of the state Appellate Court that allowed tort damages in a case involving injuries on the job. The ruling shows that workers’ comp attorneys should routinely assess all potential third party claims before concluding the sole source of recovery is under the Workers’ […]