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• Arbitration clauses show up everywhere these days

  Dale Emch | June 26, 2007 12:01 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  People sign contracts everyday containing arbitration clauses, but I'm guessing most people have no idea that they're there or what they are.Sunday, I wrote about this issue in Legal Briefs, my Toledo Blade column that appears every other week. A reader wrote that she had signed a contract with a cell-phone company after receiving assurances that it would provide good coverage in her area. She...

• Judge who lost pants lost $54 million lawsuit

  Dale Emch | June 25, 2007 3:31 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Justice prevailed today in a case where an administrative law judge had sued his dry cleaners for $54 million because his pants were allegedly lost.The lawsuit was an embarrassment for all lawyers - not just trial lawyers - because it did further damage to our profession. It allowed the people who are trying to curtail the rights of the injured and wronged to point to an obvious abuse as if it...

• Two injured in Toledo auto accident

  Dale Emch | June 25, 2007 10:38 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Two people were seriously injured in a car accident in Toledo early this morning, according to the Toledo Blade. The accident occurred at East Central Avenue and Lagrange Street in north Toledo, the paper reported.For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Car and Motorcycle Accidents.

• Toledo man killed in traffic accident after attending church

  Dale Emch | June 20, 2007 6:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  An 83-year-old Toledo man died last weekend after he was struck by a car just after attending church services.George Wolinski died after he was struck by a driver who apparently hit the gas pedal instead of the brake, according to the Toledo Blade.Mr. Wolinski's wife and daughter also were injured in this tragic accident.For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on...

• Putting head in sand won't make legal problems disappear

  Dale Emch | June 18, 2007 12:18 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Ignore legal documents you receive in the mail at your own peril.That's the answer I gave in my most recent column in the Toledo Blade to a reader who had received what I suspect was a complaint and summons more than a year ago. The reader wondered whether she still had to respond because so much time had gone by and she hadn't heard anything else.The problem with that approach is that the...