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You can't blame Kroger for a pre-existing condition

If insurance companies won’t cover pre-existing conditions, why should supermarkets? You didn’t know supermarkets cover pre-existing conditions? Well, they don’t, actually, but someone needs to explain that to Jennifer Thompson and Carolyn Foster.

By The West Virginia Record | Nov 12, 2019

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Brenda Miller, do your job or find another one!

You wouldn’t think you’d need to explain to someone who’s been an Ohio County Circuit Clerk for 20 years that attorneys deserve the respect and cooperation of court employees. Brenda Miller may be just a clerk, but she seems to fancy herself a queen, with the power and authority to do as she pleases.

By The West Virginia Record | Nov 6, 2019

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What’s not to like about a Judge Richard Neely?

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 30, 2019

“No one wants to bring back the bad old days of jackpot justice, including when Richard Neely was on the court. West Virginians don’t want more runaway verdicts and embarrassing actions and rhetoric from greedy personal injury lawyers like Richard Neely.”

It’s time for green revolutionaries to admit defeat

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 23, 2019

You can’t accuse the facile foes of fossil fuels of lacking energy. Knowledge or logic or honesty, yes. Energy, no. Whether it’s generated by lots of wind or the product of biomass hysteria, they’ve got plenty of energy. They never give up.

We’re enjoying Richard Neely’s retirement, and so should he

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 16, 2019

The problem with Richard Neely’s “real experience” is the same as Darrell McGraw’s: we had to live through it, too. We’re old enough to remember it, not old enough to have forgotten.

Scaremongering lawyers should be disciplined

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 8, 2019

Lawyers running anti-drug commercials should be held accountable for their claims. If they can’t substantiate those claims, they should be forced to compensate the companies whose sales they’ve depressed and the drug users whose health they’ve impaired.

Grease at a ‘greasy spoon’? What a surprise!

By The West Virginia Record | Oct 1, 2019

Is any fast food fan so obtuse as to not know the obvious hazards associated with facilities offering such fare?

Our lawsuit climate is in a holding pattern

By The West Virginia Record | Sep 24, 2019

Ever feel like you’re just treading water, not really getting anywhere? It’s discouraging. Still, it beats the hell out of being swept downstream and over the falls.

Affirming the rights of states and landowners

By The West Virginia Record | Sep 18, 2019

The original WOTUS rule proposed to interpret the terms “navigable waters” and “bodies of water” so broadly that they could be applied to every inch of every acre in every state in America – no matter how dry or unnavigable.

Opioid regulator Joe Rannazzisi, hero or villain?

By The West Virginia Record | Sep 11, 2019

What if Big Pharma is not to blame for the opioid crisis? What if it wasn’t the big bad drug companies that created and exacerbated the problem, but the politicians and government officials pretending to be the good guys?

The VA needs to protect the medical records of veterans

By The West Virginia Record | Sep 3, 2019

The VA has a responsibility to ensure the confidentiality of all veteran records, and the persons responsible for any breach should be held accountable.

Opioid ‘solution’ may be worse than the problem

By The West Virginia Record | Aug 28, 2019

Let’s hope West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's recent litigation on our behalf is not motivated by an opportunistic desire to exploit a crisis and swell state coffers by shaking down legitimate companies that may have had little or nothing to do with the crisis.

Proud to be a coal miner’s warriors

By The West Virginia Record | Aug 20, 2019

Truth be told, those who have grown up in West Virginia and Kentucky are sons and daughters of coal miners in a way – if not genetically, then psychologically at least, as grateful beneficiaries of the hard work they’ve done throughout their lifetimes.

When judges ignore the law

By The West Virginia Record | Aug 14, 2019

Plaintiffs attorneys governments across the country in a proposed opioid class action suit are trying to persuade U.S. District Judge Dan Polster to create a “negotiation class” that would empower them to act on behalf of every city and country government in the country and decide amongst themselves how settlement funds are distributed.

Another pipeline to prosperity and national security

By The West Virginia Record | Aug 6, 2019

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is leading a 16-state group urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that halted construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This project offers enormous economic and national security benefits.

State Attorneys General should oversee opioid litigation

By The West Virginia Record | Jul 31, 2019

Do we want justice or a quick jackpot for trial attorneys? The negotiation class leads to the latter. And, more important, it’s unconstitutional and unfair. The states and their attorneys general are the parties empowered to protect the rights and welfare of their citizens.

What teachers unions really care about

By The West Virginia Record | Jul 23, 2019

Every profession has good and bad practitioners. The majority will be somewhere in the middle, but the best will be superb and the worst, very bad. This is true of doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc.

Rebecca Chapman really stepped in it

By The West Virginia Record | Jul 15, 2019

People who file slip-and-fall lawsuits seem to operate on the assumption that they’re in no way responsible for the accident that led to their alleged injuries and that someone else – usually someone with enviable assets – is entirely to blame, but surely some of the plaintiffs must have contributed to their unfortunate falls.

Another slip-and-fall story that doesn’t add up

By The West Virginia Record | Jul 10, 2019

Critical thinking seems to have gone out of style. Nowadays, facts and logic are considered irrelevant, even obscene. It’s all about feelings now: presumed entitlement and alleged victimhood.

As usual, the MDL club negotiates in its own behalf

By The West Virginia Record | Jun 25, 2019

U.S. District Judge Dan Polster conceded that the issues being adjudicated in the multidistrict litigation he’s overseeing in Cleveland against opioid manufacturers and distributors “should be handled by the legislative and executive branches, our federal government, and our state governments.”

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