If you can't to resolve a dispute with a person or a business, you may take your problem to magistrate court. Magistrate court, also called small claims court, is an informal court that handles money claims of less than $15,000.f the defendant is an unincorporated business, the claim must be filed in the county where the business is physically located. At the time of filing, the plaintiff must pay a filing fee, which includes the charge to serve one defendant. This fee varies by county and can range from approximately $45 to $55.
By Kevin Williams. Dr. Michael Sabom is a cardiologist whose book entitled Light and Death includes a detailed medical and scientific analysis of an amazing near-death experience of a woman named Pam Reynolds.
The physician who discovered that doctors could save patients' lives simply by washing their hands. It is 1847 and the death rate among pregnant women in the obstetric clinics where the Viennese physician Ignaz Semmelweis works is high. Puerperal fever, which is an infection of the female reproductive organs following childbirth, is a common cause of death and is almost seen as inevitable by medics at the time. However, a worrying trend in the clinics which Semmelweis supervises in Vienna catches his eye.