I hope the answer to this question is no. Nearly twenty years ago, Robert Redford starred in a movie about hackers. One scene in the movie shows them decrypting the phrase “No more secrets.” The recent Pennsylvania case Largent v. Reed (Pa. Common Pleas Nov. 8, 2011) proves this is a reality of the Read more…
Whether or not you need to file a lawsuit depends on whether the party who injured you, through its insurance company, offers you a fair settlement. Sure, you could accept an unfair settlement and you avoid filing, but we encourage all of our clients who are not being treated fairly to assert their right to have their claim value assessed by a judge or jury.
Many plaintiffs are not being treated fairly. In fact, I got off the phone with an adjuster yesterday who said…
I am frequently asked about the cost of medical negligence claims. The questions usually revolve around why so many people are suing doctors (they aren’t) and why these same people are driving up the cost of health insurance (they aren’t, either). Occasionally, someone will ask me why it is so Read more…
I was curious to see how my insurance company rated against other insurance companies in customer satisfaction and I found a helpful link. The Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner posts the number of complaints an insurance company has compared with the number of policy holders @ https://fortress.wa.gov/oic/consumertoolkit/Search.aspx. I Read more…
Just in case you take a bad fall this winter… I think you ought to know what your rights are. I reviewed some of the cases in Washington State, and this is what I came up with:
Since 1975, landowners have been required to "exercise reasonable care [toward invitees] to prevent the occurrence of defective or dangerous conditions" regardless of whether the dangerous condition was a "natural" accumulation. (See Washington case Geise v. Lee, 84 Wn.2d 866, 529 (1975)).
The American Association for Justice, a national trial lawyer association, released its list of the ten worst insurance companies earlier this year. The top ten is as follows: 1.Allstate 2.Unum 3.AIG 4.State Farm 5.Conseco 6.WellPoint 7.Farmers 8.United Health 9.Torchmark 10.Liberty Mutual What does the list mean? To me it means Read more…
John Gerrity has disclosed that he has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the city of Menlo Park and the city has agreed to pay him a $2.4 million settlement. Gerrity’s wife, Deborah Johnson, was critically injured in a bicycle accident in July 2007 and she died several days later of a Read more…