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Annual Update of the Law May 2013
PAJ Annual Update of the Law October 2012
Annual Update June 2012
Med Mal Seminar April 2012
Hot Legal Topics Aug 2011

PRESS RELEASES
AND DEVELOPMENTS (PDF files)

National Ranking for Hospitals for Pennsylvania Dec 2012
Press Release 7 /2/2012
Cliff Rieders Officially Certified as a Civil Pretrial Practice Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy May 2012
Attorney, Manager Present Web Seminar (The Express, Lock Haven, PA)
Connecting Moses and the Fourth of July July 2011
2 Attorneys Named Super Lawyers July 2011
Settlement of Death Actions June 2011
Healthy Healthcare Feb 2010
When Athens Fell? Jan 2010
How Healthy is Healthcare? Jan 2010
The Health Care Dilema; Or Is It? July 2009
Elect or Appoint; Who should run municipal Government? July 2009
Declining Medical Malpractice Claims, Increasing Medical Errors June 2009
Judge Muir: A Living Legend
Birth Trauma Case Provides Care for Infant and Family
Travis and Rieders Named Super Lawyers 2004
Rieders Attends American Law Institute meeting

People and Places: Updates on the Frye/Daubert test
by Cliff Rieders

Trial Lawyers Support Doctors on Whistleblower Protection
by John M. Humphrey, President

March 28, 2003: Sexual Harassment Claim Upheld By Judge

Court Sacks Lawmakers' End Runs
by Cliff Rieders

Failure to do proper diagnostic testing to reveal the aneurysm
Settlement of Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm Settlement
Doe v. Surgeon Without Vascular Subspecialty

Laser surgery contraindicated by keratoconus
Construction Foreman Doe v. Ophthalmologist Eye Surgeon
North Central Pennsylvania
Court of Common Pleas Lycoming County
Settlement September 2003

Failure To Biopsy For Endometrial Cancer
Settlement of Estate of Doe v. OB/GYN
Central Pennsylvania

March 28, 2003: Law Firm Awards Scholarships
September 24, 1999: Jury Awards Largest Medical Malpractice Verdict in the Middle District of Pennsylvania
June 22, 2005: Law Firm Awards Scholarships

Pennsylvania's Patient Safety Authority: An Overview
by Cliff Rieders

Jane Doe vs. Plastic Surgeon
by Cliff Rieders

Mcare Commission Testimony

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OP-ED ARTICLES by Clifford Rieders (PDF files)

January 2013

Taking My Name In Vain
Families and Nations

December 2012

Guns to Protect, or Guns to Kill?
Guns, Missiles and Culture
Local Love What You Love About Small-Town PA
The Usurping Democracy

November 2012

Angst of a Parent
Blowing in the Wind
Okay, Okay, So I Was Wrong
The End or Beginning of the World

October 2012

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Takes a Crack at the Progeny of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
Teiku and Political Discourse

August 2012

I Did It For My Country!
Man on the Moon
Rubik's Cube in the United States Supreme Court
The Politics of Hurricane Season

July 2012

Politics as Usual?
Shall the Good Perish With the Bad?

June 2012

The Great Disconnect

May 2012

Medical Malpractice Cases Continue to Disappear
Dueling Constitutions

April 2012

Congress Rewrites the American Constitution

March 2012

Cut Spending or Raise Taxes?
Guns and the Holocaust

February 2012

Have We Suffered Enough?
Venue Wars
My Government My Boss
Taking a Look at Cruise Ship Regulations
The New Nationalism
Race to the Bottom
Death of the American Constitution
Confessions of a Fence Sitter

January 2012

Stranger in a Strange Land

November 2011

Who Is Steve Moff?
Why I Love the Occupy Wall Street Crowd
Money and Sex
Right of Passage

September 2011

Drill (Carefully) Baby, Carefully Drill
Is Prophecy a Lost Art?
The Calm Before the Storm

Constitution Day is About the Rule of Law

May 2011

Does This Make Sense?

April 2011

The Right to Aggravate

April 2011

It's Déjà Vu All Over Again

February 2011

The Birth of Democracy in the Middle East

January 2011

Imitation As Flattery

MARCH 2008

Alexander Hamilton Wins
Confronting a Clergyman

FEBRUARY 2008

The Clinton Reprise, Part II

DECEMBER 2007

Wrong Site Surgery
Chinese Labor In The American Future?
Treason; A Presidential Prerogative?

NOVEMBER 2007

Lawyers Revolting or Revolting Lawyers?

SEPTEMBER 2007

Scaling the Walls of Justice

AUGUST 2007

Big Brother or State's Rights

JUNE 2007

Supreme Court Conservatives & Big Government
Democracy Worshiper & Pat Buchanan

MAY 2007

American Idol for President

APRIL 2007

Health Grades
Hip Hop As A Mirror of Our Times
Major New Research

MAY 2006

Third Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study
Patient Safety Authority Annual Report 2005
Claims, Errors and Compensation Payments in Medical Malpractice Litigation
Uncle Ernie's Answer

APRIL 2006

Oil Imports

DECEMBER 2005

Our Rights Slipping Away

NOVEMBER 2005

Revolution

OCTOBER 2005

Intelligent Design and Intelligent Judging

SEPTEMBER 2005

The Bible as Law
Protecting Those Most In Need

AUGUST 2005

School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins Concludes Cost of
Defending Malpractice Claims 0.46 Percent of Total Healthcare Spending

The Cost of Bad Medicine

JULY 2005

Supreme Court - Supreme Decisions
PA Economy League and Medical Malpractice
The Old Man At The End Of The Dock
Letter To The Editor: Mona Charen and Trial Lawyers
Letter To The Editor: In response to Christopher T. Miller
John Roberts and Big Government
Medical Malpractice Insurance, An Update

JUNE 2005

Solomon and The Supreme Court
Now, the Other Side of the Hospital Move Story
Rejection of Slots – The Right to Raise Taxes
Medical Malpractice Law in the United States
Deep Throat and Me

MAY 2005

Was World War II Worth It?
Crime in the Big City
HealthGrades Quality Study

APRIL 2005

The Rest of the World Rates Us, But Who Cares?
Reflections on the Holy Father
The Rich Get Richer; Much, Much Richer
Nursing Home Litigation: The Rights of Seniors Slipping Away in their Golden Years
Discipline of Bad Doctors and Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums
New Harvard Statistics
Price Gouging and Inflation

MARCH 2005

Critical Care Nurses Say: Silence Kills
If Only The Public Knew
Flower Children Rule The World
The Case I Lost

FEB 2005

The Patriot Act: Sunset on the Law or Sunset on American Civil Liberties?
From Whom Do Our Kids Learn?
Health Costs Study Shows Wasted Costs
Equality for Women Taken for Granted?
Are we Iraq?

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RADIO SHOWS in Real Audio Format (click here to get free player)

Interviews:

Jack Humphrey
Pro Bono activities

Judge Jeannine Turgeon
On her career

Judge Kenneth Brown
On his career

Kevin Way
Lycoming County Court Administrator

Scott Waters
On his career

Tom Marino
His job as US Attorney

12/13/04 Tom Raup
On his career

12/20/04 Dr. Lawrence Schiffman
The Law & The Dead Sea Scrolls

12/27/04 Tom Waffenschmidt
A Day in the Life

1/03/05 Gary Harris
Law & Philosophy

1/17/05 Judge Malcolm Muir

His job as US District Court Judge

1/31/05 Dr. Robert Muscalus
Chairman, Patient Safety Authority

2/07/05 Bill Carlucci
Pennsylvania Bar Association

2/28/05 Phyllis Mundy
Reflections of a Consumer Legislator

5/30/05 Pam Shipman
Her job as Motions Practice Specialist

6/06/05 Judge Richard Klein
His job as Superior Court Judge

6/20/05 Stanton Smullens
His job as Chief Medical Officer

7/05/05 Dennis Lipkin
Current affairs & terrorist threat

7/21/05 Rep. Mike Hanna
On being a Democrat in a Republican

part of Pennsylvania

8/02/05 Judge Nancy Butts
Isolation of the life of a judge

8/11/05 Senator Robert Casey
On running for senator

8/29/05 Beth Lazarra
Her life on becoming a judge

10/09/05 Judge Mark Bernstein
View from the Common Pleas bench

10/17/05 Marc Galanter
His Book "Lowering the Bar, Lawyer Jokes & Legal Culture"

10/24/05 Frank Clemente
Insurance Premiums & Malpractice

11/14/05 Keith Ashdown
Subsidizing Corporate America

11/21/05 Ross Eisenbery
Economic Policy Institute

11/28/05 Stuart Greenleaf
PA State Senate Judiciary Chair

12/26/05 Kristin Techgiuden
ATLA 'People over Profits'

1/02/06 Deborah Leavy
People for the American Way

1/09/06 Lynn Marks
Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts

1/16/06 Rep. Steve Cappelli
Length of terms & pay raises

3/13/06 Marty Berger
PA Alliance for Retired Americans

3/20/06 Tom Paternostro
On running for 84th District Rep

3/27/06 Senator Sean Logan
On his career as State Senator

4/03/06 Babette Josephs
On her career

4/10/06 Rick Mirabito
On running for 83rd District Rep

5/15/06 Garth Everett
On running for 84th District Rep

5/22/06 Steve Fine
Vatican Matters

5/29/06 John McCormick
Articles on the Health Care System

6/05/06 Dr. Lawrence Schiffman
The Da Vinci Code

6/19/06 Dr. Anna McKee
Chairman, Patient Safety Authority

7/03/06 Sasha Rieders
Patent Law

7/10/06 Justice Max Baer
The role of Appellate Court

7/17/06 Shanin Spector
Preemption

7/21/06 Amy Widman
On creating special malpractice courts

8/07/06 Chris Mather
The Myth of the Litigation Crisis

9/11/06 Michael Townes Watson
His book "America's Tunnel Vision"

9/18/06 Kaila Rieders
Her trip to Israel

9/25/06 Professor Gordon Wood
His book "Revolutionary Characters,

What Made the Founders Different"

10/02/06 Martin J. Hatlie
Consumers Advancing Patient Safety

10/16/06 Dr. Henry Greenspan
Drug withdrawal and what consumers should look for

10/23/06 Professor George J. Annas
Boston University School of Public Health

10/30/06 Alan Kachalia, MD, JD
Study of closed malpractice claims

11/06/06 Ralph Nurnberger
Senior Partner Government Relations

11/20/06 Ed Mirzwinski
Penn PIRG

11/20/06 Linda Sherry
Consumer Action

12/04/06 Nathanael Greene
Senior Policy Analyst-NRDC

On Global Warming

12/11/06 Professor Robert Williams
Keeping Co-equal: State Court Responses to Legislative Encroachment

12/18/06 Congressman Chris Carney
On his victory in the election

1/01/07 Professor Gordon Wood
More thoughts on his book

1/08/07 Philipe Ernesto
On his book, "Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration"

1/15/07 Stephanie Mencimer
On her book, "Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue"

1/29/07 Bill Marler
Food Safety Expert Atty- Voluntary Food Guidelines and Food Safety in General

2/05/07 Judge Thomas Vanaski
2/19/07 Maxwell Mehlman
"Dishonest Medical Mistakes"

2/26/07 Lt. Col. Platte Mooring
Author "First: A Citizen-Soldier in Afghanistan"

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