It is not much of a surprise that using gadgets while driving causes wrecks. What is surprising is that people do not seem to get it. We have all heard about cellphones causing car accidents, but until recently many only guessed that other gadgets also caused wrecks. It turns out our assumptions were right. A [...]

A doctor, who is also a politician, crossed ethical lines when the state legislature moved to put stricter regulations on the medical malpractice insurance industry. The doctor in question stepped right into the eye of the storm and marched into the Senate leader’s office, full of vigorous objections. The bill the doctor disliked was actually [...]

This is not rocket science – if you do not want to be sued, then make the effort to communicate better. The Archives of Internal Medicine recently released a study that shows that when it comes to communicating with one another, primary care doctors and medical specialists fail. This can put patients at risk of [...]

This blog will not my injury lawyer friends happy. In one of our trade magazines there was an article recently about cruise ships limiting their liability for personal injury, property damage and failure to meet cruise schedules. The lawyers do not feel that these cruise ship companies should be able to put clauses in their [...]

If you or someone you care about has been injured, you should talk with an experienced personal injury lawyer. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. While it is true most of my injury clients have been involved in some sort of serious personal injury, others ended up with not so serious, but [...]

That is the question a good friend recently asked me. He loves my blogs. We share the same sense of humor, but he knows that not everybody does. As an injury lawyer he thought I might want to be a little more careful, politic, or guarded. And, in the old days when I might have [...]

It has been a very productive year so far at Donahue Law firm. We are happy to report there are many satisfied clients. Injury victims need all the financial compensation they can get to put their lives back together. Several are now set for life, thanks to a whole lot of hard work and determination [...]

My most recent blogs have been about my summertime trip. This will end that topic. I enjoy writing about common everyday experiences that have little or nothing to do with injury law. It is important not only to work hard, but to play hard. So I will take you back to Rome. Here we are [...]

Let me take you to Turkey. We arrive at the port city of Kuchadarski, pleasantly surprised at its beauty and cleanliness. I was wondering what it was going to be like on the Mediterranean with all the craziness going on in the mid east. Never for a moment did we feel at risk. It did [...]

Yesterday I got blogging again, and talked about my trip overseas. Today I will pick up the same topic, and take you back to the dock at Civitevecchia, Italy. It was there an Irish honeymooner from Cork, who was on the same cruise, summed up Athens and Turkey beautifully when he said: Athens was what [...]