Here is a link to a crime mapping website, that will give you the date, location, and type of crimes reported in Fairfax County for any date range.
Makes me wonder if any other jurisdictions around here has this service.
Insurance Defense Blog
A blog with a focus on civil litigation/insurance defense in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, by David B. Stratton, Esq. of Jordan Coyne LLP.
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September 25, 2008
Medical research on the internet
Thanks to Bespacific.com for the link to a fine up-to-date article about medical research on the internet.
The article itself is here. My only criticism of it is that I don't think it covers the British medical sites.
However, in my opinion, if you consider the value of your time, your best bet is to sign up for MDConsult.com, which is not free, but is reasonably priced.
I've recently posted some other Research Links on this blog, some medical, which I rescued from my firm's website when it was redesigned. Law firms don't offer pages and pages of research links on their websites anymore, it seems. It's a pain in the neck to maintain them, as a certain number of the links "go dead" every year. It takes a lot of work to put them together and maintain them, and it is pretty much a thankless task. Also, the reasoning goes, why offer the reader a multitude of paths leading away from your site? With Google and other powerful search engines, directories of research links are arguably obsolete anyway. On the other hand, there are so many websites now that the researcher's problem is more likely to be sorting out the valuable websites from the chaff. So there's value to a guide to doing medical research on the internet. In the end I couldn't bear to just delete all of mine with the old website, so I copied them here, where they will be of continued use to me at least.
September 21, 2008
Selected law school websites
Regional Law School Sites |
Description |
| Georgetown University Law Center | Wide array of internet links, attractively organized, but takes some time to drill down. |
| American University | |
| Catholic University | Useful links for internet research. |
| George Washington University | Most notably, at this site you can find U.S. Court of Federal Claims On Line (formerly Court of Claims), plus Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals info. |
| University of Virginia | UVA internet services include links to scores of online databases, covering science, psychology, and much more. |
| George Mason School of Law | |
| Howard University Law School | Library site |
| University of Maryland | |
| University of Baltimore | |
| John Marshall School of Law | Extensive internet links put together by this Chicago law school |
| Washburn University (Kansas) | A leader in online legal research. |
Employment Law
Resource |
Description |
| EEOC site | New regulations, etc. |
| U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board | Recent decisions and searchable database of decisions |
| Findlaw | |
| Law Journal Extra | See the employment page |
| National Employment Lawyers Association | |
| ABA Law and Employment Law Section | |
| Disability and the Workplace: An Internet Primer | Index of Internet resources dealing with law of disabilities in the workplace |
| Cornell's Legal Information Institute's collection on employment law | |
| Employment Law Information Network |
Insurance websites
The following are insurance-related links of interest to us.
Site |
What's There |
| Reinsurance Association of America | You can order their directory of arbitrators |
| National Association of Insurance Commissioners | Keep abreast of regulatory developments. |
| Captive Insurers | Organization for captive insurers and self-insurers |
| Property and Casualty | A site geared towards those in the property and casualty insurance fields |
| Claims Magazine | Articles for claims professionals |
| Insurance Fraud | National Insurance Crime Bureau site -- education about detection of insurance fraud |
| Insurance Services Office | Supplier of standard policy language throughout the industry |
| International Risk Management Institute (IRMI) | |
| Business Insurance Magazine | |
| TitleWeb.com | Portal for the title insurance industry and title companies |
| Reinsurance News | |
| National Underwriter Company portal | The National Underwriter Company publishes a broad array of print, e-media and software products for the insurance and financial services industries. Its key publications include the two weekly magazines, National Underwriter, Property & Casualty/Risk & Benefits Management and National Underwriter, Life & Health/Financial Services, as well as the multi-volume loose-leaf FC&S Bulletins service and the very popular Tax Facts desk references |
Regional government websites
District of Columbia Sites |
What's There |
| D.C. Government's Home Page | Links to online agencies; contact information for all government agencies |
| Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs | Where one can apply and pay for, and receive, 18 different business licenses, and download business forms, such as limited liability partnership registration forms. |
| Department of Human Services | |
| Department of Employment Services | DOES handles unemployment and workers compensation, among other things. Some worker's compensation forms available. |
| Department of Health | |
| Department of Motor Vehicles | Summaries of registration requirements |
| Metropolitan Police Department | |
| Office of the Chief of Police | Graphics load slow and are not worth the wait. Map of police districts, and crime statistics available. |
| Office of Tax and Revenue | |
| D.C. Code | Free--Courtesy of Lexis. In HTML format, and Java format |
Maryland Sites |
What's There |
| Maryland State Department of Assessment and Taxation | A wonderful site. Online access to information about Maryland corporations and businesses. A welcome improvement over trying to do it by telephone. |
| Maryland Rules (including Maryland Rules of Evidence), other court rules | Free -- Courtesy of Lexis. Includes also local rules of District of Maryland, Bankruptcy Court, 4th Circuit |
| Maryland Electronic Capital | Links to state, county, and city websites |
| Maryland Insurance Commissioner | |
| Montgomery County, Md. | |
| Prince George's County, Md. | Circuit Court Judges' bios on Prince George's Judiciary page |
| Howard County | |
| Frederick County | |
| Baltimore County | |
| Baltimore City | |
Virginia Sites |
What's There |
| Virginia Legislative Service's Links to Local Governments | Organizes the links by regions of the State, e.g., Northern Virginia |
| City of Alexandria | |
| Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission | Includes searchable database of opinions since 1995; an overview of the Act and the text of the Act; forms |
| Arlington, Va. | |
| City of Fairfax | |
| Fairfax County | |
| Loudoun County | |
| Prince William County |
| Fairfax County, Va.'s Online Real Estate Assessment Database | Allows access to assessed values of a property and other properties in the neighborhood |
| Maryland Real Estate Assessment Records | This site allows access to assessments for entire State of Maryland |
Weather
Resource |
Description |
| Weather.com | Weather forecasts |
| NOAA Historical Weather Data | Find out if it was snowing the day the plaintiff said it was |
| Accuweather.com | another weather site |
Medical research
Medical Research Sites |
Description |
| American Medical Association | Collection of scientific and educational resources. Searchable database of virtually every U.S. physician |
| Other Physician Directories | Links to other physician directories |
| Medical Schools | Links to medical schools |
| Medical texts and treatises | Links to online medical texts and treatises, as well as to medical bookstores |
| Medical Journals | Links to websites where medical journals can be searched |
| National Institutes of Health | |
| MedMark | Medical Bookmarks |
| MedLine Plus Health Topics | |
| More research links for research sources for medical drug and device litigation | These are sources recommended by the Drug, Device and Biotech Committee of the IADC. |
| Links to medical dictionaries | From National Library of Medicine |
| HealthWeb | A collection of medical links maintained by a consortium of 20 university libraries. HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. Currently there are over twenty actively participating member libraries. |
| National Electric Library for Health | Maintained by U.K.'s National Health Service. The National Electronic Library for Health aims to provide clinicians with access to the best current know-how and knowledge to support health care related decisions. Also available is NHS Direct Online provided as the NHS's public gateway health information. |
| MedicineNet.Com | Medical news site run by physicians for consumers |
Links to courts
District of Columbia Courts--
- Superior Court of the District of Columbia
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- Unites States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Virginia Courts --
- Supreme Court of Virginia, and all the Circuit and General District Courts in the 31 Circuits in Virginia. A representative sampling of the Virginia courts in which the firm has, or recently had, cases pending is as follows:
- Circuit Court of Albemarle County, Virginia
- Circuit Court for Arlington County, Virginia
- Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia
- Circuit Court for the City of Alexandria, Virginia
- Circuit Court of Carroll County, Virginia
- Circuit Court of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia
- Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake, Virginia
- Circuit Court of Grayson County, Virginia
- Circuit Court of City of Hampton, Virginia
- Circuit Court of James City/County Williamsburg
- Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Virginia (located in Leesburg, Virginia)
- Circuit Court of Madison County, Virginia
- Circuit Court of the City of Newport News, Virginia
- Circuit Court of the City of Norfolk, Virginia
- Circuit Court of Portsmouth, Virginia
- Circuit Court of Prince William County, Virginia (located in Manassas, Virginia)
- Circuit Court of Richmond, Virginia
- Circuit Court of Roanoke, Virginia
- Circuit Court of Spotsylvania County, Virginia
- Circuit Court of Stafford County, Virginia
- Circuit Court of Warren County, Virginia
- Circuit Court of York County, Virginia
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (all divisions)
- United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia (all divisions)
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Maryland Courts--
- Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland 50 Maryland Ave, Rockville, MD, 20850
- Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Maryland 14735 Main St, Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772
- Circuit Court for Baltimore County, Maryland (located in Towson, Maryland)
- Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Maryland
- Circuit Court for Frederick County, Maryland
- Circuit Court for Howard County, Maryland (located in Ellicott City, Maryland)
- Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, Maryland (located in Annapolis, Maryland)
- Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (located in Annapolis, Maryland)
- Court of Appeals of Maryland (located in Annapolis, Maryland)
- United States District Court for the District of Maryland (located in Baltimore, Maryland and Greenbelt, Maryland)
- United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Maryland
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
West Virginia Courts--
- Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
- Circuit Courts of Berkeley, Kanahawa, Logan, Mashall, Mineral, Nicholas, Ohio, and Raleigh Counties, West Virginia
- United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia
- United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
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