A health care provider’s lien against settlement of insurance proceeds or payment of a judgment is invalid unless the lien is sent by certified mail and includes the location of the health care provider. Metcalf v Christus Health Southwestern Louisiana, Third Circuit, No. CA 09-869 (3/3/10) (Cooks, J, concurs)

The LADC Trial Academy, previously scheduled at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law on August 5-7, 2010, has been cancelled due to low registration.

For the April 2010 LADC Newsletter, click here: LADC April 2010 Newsletter.

Pursuant to Article VI, § 2 of the LADC Bylaws, as amended in 2005, LADC members may vote for directors to fill the eleven (11) vacant slots on the LADC Board of Directors. The vacancies are not the usual eleven. In District 5 none are to be elected this year because one director resigned in 2008 after election to judicial office, and thus two directors were elected in District 5 in 2009. In District 6 three are to be elected this year because one director discontinued practicing law.

Members may vote for any or all of the candidates nominated by the Nominating Committee or may write in candidates in the space provided. Members are not restricted to voting for their district.

To download a ballot in PDF format, click here: 2010 Ballot for LADC Board of Directors. Please e-mail, fax, or mail the completed ballot to Skip Philips, the Secretary-Treasurer of the LADC, no later than April 26, 2010.

Although insured may not have been able to read the UM waiver form which was printed in English, the insurance agent spoke with insured in Spanish at all relevant times; thus nothing prevented insured from asking questions if he felt he did not understand what he was signing.  Held, summary judgment upholding the waiver was proper.  Rizzo v Ward, Fourth Circuit, No. 2009-CA-1325 (2/24/10)

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