“MEDICATION TIME, MEDICATION TIME.” ~ Nurse Mildred Ratched, ‘Big Nurse’ Visualize this: Your family is coming unglued agonizing over how to best care for an elderly loved one whose mind is deteriorating from dementia, Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s Disease. The final resort is placing your parent in a nursing home, but once you’ve made the decision [...]

“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” It’s an old children’s rhyme that psychologists today say is wildly inaccurate. The truth is that words can hurt: just look at the recent news stories about teen suicides caused by verbal online bullying. It’s plain to see the harm caused by [...]

As plaintiff lawyers we see a lot of sad things, but nothing compares with the sadness of a young person’s death as the result of corporate greed. Take for example the story of YAZ, a blockbuster drug for big pharma but a source of heartache for too many young women who were irreversibly injured or [...]

EDITORS NOTE: This is the second of two blog posts concerning the rights some salaried workers have to receiving overtime compensation. Part one explained the common misconception associated with those who are entitled to overtime pay. Part two describe how employees will be compensated. Written by attorney Allen Vaught You work hard for your money. [...]

Every year we approach Workers’ Memorial Day with mixed feelings. As a law firm that has represented tens of thousands of injured workers over the last 30 plus years, we certainly understand the need for this day and are glad for the recognition of the fallen. But there’s another side of us too – a [...]

Quick. Think of Earth Day and what do you see? We bet it’s a crunchy vision of bare-footed environmental believers, with not a suit in sight. But even if we don’t have the picture totally right, we know there’s no courtroom scene in your vision. In fact, if you were to conjure up the opposite [...]

Let’s say you have mesothelioma, a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, and you live in California. It goes without saying that you are very ill and probably getting special treatments from various medical specialists. But what if you choose, despite your fatigue and pain, to fight the companies that willfully exposed you to asbestos, [...]

ADAO co-founders Linda Reinstein and Doug Larkin with Barbara McQueen, Jordan Zevon and Baron and Budd’s representatives. March 30 – April 1 was the eighth annual Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) conference and Baron & Budd’s third time to attend as an event sponsor. Every conference has been eye-opening but we have to say this [...]

This week marks the eight annual National Asbestos Awareness Week. And for that we are grateful. Just last month Montana’s senior U.S. Senator, Max Baucus, announced the United States Senate passage of the resolution designating the first week of April 2012 as “Asbestos Awareness Week.” This is the sixth year in a row Baucus has [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of two blog posts concerning the rights some salaried workers have to receiving overtime compensation. Part one will explain the common misconception associated with those who are entitled to overtime pay. Part two will describe how employees will be compensated. Written by attorney Allen Vaught Your employer may not [...]