Alaska Injury Law Blog

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FDA Preemption: Another Bush Legacy Wrecking The House

The Bush Administration has consistently sought to undermine consumer-oriented regulatory practices in favor of corporate interests. If it could also take a shot at plaintiffs and their demon trial lawyers, all the better. One of its more spectacular successes was the Supreme Court’s recent decision in a medical devices case,…

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Stealth Tort Reform: AmBush At The FDA

At the Alaska Personal Injury Law Group, we commonly face the unpleasant task of explaining to prospective clients the way in which “tort reform” has dramatically taken away the legal rights they thought they possessed. One of the recent unsung accomplishments of the Bush Administration is the silent destruction of…

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Study: Bad Faith Claim Practices Make Allstate The Worst Insurance Company in America

The Alaska Personal Injury Law Group has previously discussed some of Allstate’s bad faith practices, for example Institutional Bad Faith 101 — How Allstate’s DOLF Program Works, and Study Finds Institutional Bad Faith at Allstate, State Farm and Other Major Insurers. A new study just released by a national consumer’s…

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Metabolife CEO Headed To Prison

The Alaska Personal Injury Law Group has long been involved in the analysis of defective products sold by the diet supplement industry. Talbert v. E’ola Products, Inc. We have watched this industry repeatedly use unqualified personnel to design and sell products that are, in a word, dangerous. The industry has…

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Getting All The Evidence Is Key To Successful Insurance Claims

Alaska Personal Injury Law Group attorneys have waged many legal battles to force Allstate to produce documents that are relevant to insurance “bad faith” claims against the insurer by injured Alaskans. These claims have alleged that Allstate unfairly and unreasonably delayed and “low balled” their personal injury insurance claims. Significantly,…

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ERA Helicopters Sheep Mountain Helicopter Crash–4 Killed, Boy Survives

An ERA Helicopters Eurocopter Arrow Star 350 B2 helicopter crashed in heavy weather conditions near Sheep Mountain on April 15, 2008, killing four people, and seriously injuring a 14-year-old boy. Killed in the crash were the pilot, Benoit Pin, and three employees of the Alaska Department of Administration, Michael D.…