Boise Personal Injury Lawyer

A judge has ruled there was no jury misconduct in the medical malpractice case against Dr. Anita Krishna Das. The jury ruled in her favor.The plantiffs sued on the grounds that one of the jury members had a spouse that had worked at the doctor's former practice. In a lengthy ruling released earlier this week, Judge Larry Smukler, sitting in Belknap County Superior Court, said because the...

A man was killed when the car he was driving was hit by another vehicle, while he was attempting to cross an intersection.The accident happened at Columbia and Meridian (Highway 69) roads. A man was driving a red Honda that was hit on the driver's side in a direct impact by a Dodge Durango. The force of the impact caused the car to fly a couple hundred feet into a cornfield. The unidentified...

The civil trial of a women convicted of running over her husband was postponed due to icy weather conditions. Clara Harris was convicted of murder in February 2003, after driving her Mercedes Benz over her husband several times in July 2002. She had confronted him at a hotel with his mistress. David Harris's parents are suing her for $5 million dollars in the wrongful death case. Closing...

The Greedy Trial Lawyer has an excellent post up about these mysterious "junk lawsuits" we all keep hearing about, but never actually seem to find. Despite no evidence that "junk lawsuits" are actually a problem, or even exist at all, President Bush and his big business allies continue to push ahead with their campaign of "tort reform." The question becomes: how long will this go on before we...

Watch out, serial speeders and dangerous drivers. The Idaho State Police are testing out new, less conspicuous police cruisers to nab driving offenders on the highway. These cars are the same style cruisers currently in use, but they lack a top light bar.From the article at KTVB.com:Troopers say drivers tend to be on their best behavior when they see a patrol car, but when the cruisers are less...

Sunday night in Meridian, witnesses saw a man drive his truck across two lanes of traffic and crash his vehicle into a building in Meridian. Shortly thereafter, the driver staggered away from the scene. Following a short pursuit on foot, police took Ron Chandler into custody and charged him with driving under the influence of alcohol. Thankfully, there were no reported injuries to...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a large number of cars were completely flooded and later disposed of by their owners. Some of these vehicles have since found their way into the marketplace, possibly even as far north as Idaho. In a pair of articles on KTVB.com, consumers are being warned to watch out for storm-flooded cars. Because of the salt water in the hurricane storm surge, and...

A Boise woman faces criminal charges following a late night car accident on the Connector. Police responded to reports and found an Isuzu Trooper blocking one lane of traffic, with no driver in sight.From the article at KTVB.com:Police say evidence indicates that the SUV was actually going southbound on Curtis before going over the overpass railing.After investigating at the scene, officers...

There's a great article on Insure.com about the way in which many insurance companies decide just how much your "totalled" car is worth. Disclosures in recent litigation have revealed that (gasp) many insurance companies tend to stray away from the standard Kelly Blue Book and instead use value databases that result in much lower car values. Apparently, to the shock of...well, no one, this is...

The Idaho House of Representatives is currently considering at bill that would allow doctors to apologize to their patients without having those apologies used against them in Court. Idaho law currently allows such expressions of sympathy and apology to be admissible against doctors except "in certain circumstances." The bill's supporters say that patients who receive an apology and sympathy...