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On April 20, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published a final rule establishing its National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners (NRCME). According to an [...]

Perkins & Associates,LLC Receives Peer Review Rating for Mark A. Perkins from LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell has recognized Mark A. Perkins with a [...]

Suppose an employee and employer agree to arbitrate their disputes and the agreement is signed in Texas. Obviously, Texas law should apply. A recent Court of Appeals in El Paso case [...]

Following the accident at issue, the defendant truck driver  was issued a traffic citation for failing to yield the right of way pursuant to La. R.S. 32:124. [...]

While the terms of “diminution of value” and “loss of use” are often used together, they should not be used interchangeably. Diminution of value refers to the loss of [...]

Law Regarding Pleading Spoliation The theory of spoliation of evidence refers to an intentional destruction of evidence for purpose of depriving opposing parties of its use. Hooker v. Super [...]

FORMS OF COMPUTER GENERATED EVIDENCE (CGE) The admissibility of the evidence will reflect the type of evidence it is: (1) demonstrative evidence or (2) substantive or real evidence. The two main [...]

Suppose you have hired an expert on hiring practices and your opponent wants to have him excluded under a Daubert challenge? How can you fight the challenge? A few years ago, we were defending [...]

Shippers, particularly the paper and chemical companies, have had substantial influence in Louisiana. One area of influence in the past has been that trucking companies must indemnify shippers [...]

For over ten days, I was travelling along the tributaries of the great Amazon River in the rain forest of northern Brazil. I was completely disconnected from society. No cellphone, no laptop, no [...]