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Calif. Bar Still Wants Insurance Disclosure Rule
After California Bar leaders announced last year that they might require lawyers to tell clients if they don't carry malpractice insurance, complaints began pouring in. Some attorneys said the financial costs could drive them out of business. Others worried about encouraging malpractice suits by their own clients. And many felt attorneys who disclose a lack of insurance would be unfairly branded as less professional. As it turns out, their concerns were heard, but they might not like the results. Members of the State Bar's Insurance Disclosure Task Force intend to recommend Friday that the proposal be tweaked to address some smaller complaints, but they're not backing off their belief that disclosure is the right way to go. "What the task force has done won't cause opponents to change their minds," its chairman, James Towery, said Friday.
$64 million deal on Paxil nears OK
EDWARDSVILLE -- A judge said today that he will approve a $64 million national class action settlement for parents who bought Paxil, once a blockbuster drug, for their teens who were struggling with depression.
The deal had been threatened by objections both over the terms of just what pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline would have to pay, as well as an award of attorneys fees totaling more than $16 million to St. Louis powerhouse firm Korein Tillery and others.
A hearing Wednesday on the matter was stalled by squabbling among more than a dozen among lawyers from as far a field as California. National watchdog group Public Citizen also weighed in, saying the deal just wasn't fair.
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SF: JOBS LOSES APPEAL; PRESERVATION STILL POSSIBLE
A lawyer for a conservation group said today he hopes a historic Woodside house owned by Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs will now be preserved in the wake of the California Supreme Court's rejection of Jobs's appeal this week. Douglas Carstens, a lawyer for Uphold Our Heritage, said, "We hoping there may be some actual preservation solution worked out." Carstens said the heritage group is participating in negotiations that may result in the house known as the Jackling House being sold to a different private owner and moved to a new location. Those negotiations are "exploring restoration off site," Carstens said. Jobs bought the house in 1984 and has been seeking since 2001 to obtain a permit to demolish it and replace it with a smaller residence on the forested six-acre site.
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