For years, the public has been fed a giant misinformation campaign designed to convince people that their constitutional right to file a lawsuit, when they have been injured or harmed, should be restricted or eliminated. Much of that campaign seeks to get people to...
Medical Malpractice
Kentucky Hospital Conspires With Cardiologists in Medical Malpractice
A London, Kentucky hospital and 11 cardiologists performed over 3,000 unnecessary cardiac catheterization surgeries and countless other heart procedures on healthy patients. These unfortunate victims of medical malpractice will now be required to take dangerous...
‘Tort Reform’ Debate to Resurface in New Session
Several years ago the legislature capped financial awards for medical malpractice lawsuits and now the state's largest physician group wants lawmakers to expand legal protections for doctors into additional areas. The Ohio State Medical Association wants the General...
The Lawyer As a Social Engineer: Gerry Leeseberg explains in BARbriefs
Lawyers can help facilitate changes that affect our society. Those changes can be either small or seismic but attorneys must realize the impact they can make on those who are charged with rendering verdicts and enacting legislation. This was Gerald Leesebergs message...
The Columbus Dispatch – Suits Settled Over Teen’s Health Care
A former Upper Arlington High School rower and his parents have settled lawsuits they filed against a hospital and doctors after flesh-eating bacteria led to the amputation of his legs. Steven "Blake" Haxton, now 21, was a senior captain of the rowing team when pain...
The Business Of Healing Hearts & Heart Disease
Heart Disease is Costly - Cardiac Care Is A Money-Making Machine That Too Often Favors Profit Over Science As baby boomers hit their 60s and heart disease remains the No. 1 killer of all U.S. adults, it's no surprise that ads exploiting people's concerns about their...
Speaking Objections At Depositions: A Roundtable Discussion
Editor's Note: Recently, Ellen Hobbs Hirshman [EHH] hosted a "roundtable" conference call with three plaintiffs' lawyers, one defense lawyer, and a judge, to discuss obstructionist tactics during depositions, and how to handle them. The plaintiffs' attorneys were...
Scholarship in Memory of Student to Help Others Reach ‘Full Potential’
would like to express our gratitude at being able to assist Neal Aquino's family in obtaining a settlement that has helped them establish a fund in his honor and memory. When Alumni Weekend takes place May 13-15, 2011, an alum from the...
SB 86 Opponent Testimony of Gerald Leeseberg
Attorney Gerald Leeseberg of Columbus, representing the Ohio Association for Justice, said in opposition testimony that the current version of the bill still provides blanket immunity for negligent medical care on the part of emergency room personnel for any patients...
SB 129 Opponent Testimony
Gerald S. Leeseberg Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to address the Committee concerning SB 129. I have been practicing in the area of tort litigation since 1979, predominantly in medical malpractice. I am a past President of the...
