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Physicians' And Hospitals' Liens On Tort Claims For Services Rendered Injurred Party, Anon
Physicians' And Hospitals' Liens On Tort Claims For Services Rendered Injurred Party, Anon
Washington Law Review
The 1937 session of the Washington Legislature added the medical and allied services to the selective groups whose compensation is protected in part by statutory liens. Chapter 69 of the laws of that session awards a lien to operators of hospitals, licensed nurses, practitioners, physicians and surgeons rendering service "for any person who has received a traumatic injury." The lien is upon "any claim, right of action and/or money to which such person is entitled against any tort feasor and/or insurer of such tort feasor". The amount of the lien is the "value" of the services, plus costs and such …
Defamation And Radio, Donald G. Graham
Defamation And Radio, Donald G. Graham
Washington Law Review
Radio has opened up a new and larger opportunity for defamation than has ever existed before. There are licensed today in the United States 683 broadcasting stations scattered throughout the country. Newspapers are fairly closely owned and do not open their columns generally to the public. Radio stations, on the other hand, broadcast the message not only of those who lease their facilities, but they also carry the messages of men of public affairs and public officials, for which unsponsored broadcasting they receive no commercial return. Speeches of a timely and informative nature delivered before an audience are frequently broadcast …
Competency Of Proof Of "Customary" Negligence In Support Of Charge Of Specific Act Of Negligence, Judson F. Falknor
Competency Of Proof Of "Customary" Negligence In Support Of Charge Of Specific Act Of Negligence, Judson F. Falknor
Washington Law Review
It is no doubt accurate to say that the bar of this state has heretofore assumed (and justifiably so, in view of prior decisions of the court) that, generally speaking, a specific charge of negligence (e.g. excessive speed) may not be established by proof of prior or similar acts of negligence, nor even by proof of customary or habitual negligence of the same sort. Consequently, the opinion of the Washington Supreme Court in Sheddy v. Inland Motor Freight, is of more than passing interest.