• Death case where a patient died during performance of an elective mastectomy;
• Death case where an 18 wheeler sideswiped a van killing two passengers;
• Loss of a leg where a nursing home resident eloped and suffered from exposure;
• Death case where a patient died from massive infections following surgery;
• Brain damage case where pediatrician failed to timely diagnose meningitis in newborn baby;
• Death case where a minor child was permitted to operate a piece of logging equipment, crushing to death a worker;
• Death case where hospital workers failed to monitor a patient who dislodged a tracheotomy tube;
• Serious burn injuries to a young child caused by negligence of foster parent;
• Death case arising from extraction of a failed pacemaker lead;
• Burn injury to member of crew of drilling barge engulfed by fire;
• Death case where a hearing impaired nursing home resident choked to death on food;
• Neck injury to seaman that occurred when vessel's hatch cover dislodged and struck his head;
• Age discrimination case against a major manufacturer that laid off older workers while retaining younger workers;
• A case where a dog attacked and scarred a young girl attending a picnic;
• Highway defect case where an S-curve could not be safely traversed by 18-wheelers.
  

Recently (December, 2000) I spoke in New Orleans at a continuing legal education seminar sponsored by the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association and approved by the Louisiana State Bar Association for CLE credit. Lawyers and judges attended this seminar to receive credit toward their requirement of 15 hours per year of continuing legal education. My seminar topic was "Taming the Opposition Expert". A copy of the paper I presented at this seminar is linked to this page.

I am actively involved in the legislative effort to pass the federal Patients Bill of Rights. The most important change in the law created by the Patients Bill of Rights is the right to sue HMO's in State court when they make unfair decisions to deny benefits and coverage. Current federal law prohibits claims against HMO's.

On the personal side, I'm married and have two girls (14 and 12) and a boy (10).
.