Last week we went to trial and spent the better part of two days showing a jury how our client was injured, how he has not fully recovered, and why he deserved to be compensated for his injuries. The jury was attentive and courteous. They were educated and thoughtful. They deliberated for nearly two hours. Then they broke the law.
After many years of favoring arbitration (informal, out-of-court trial) as a method of resolving coverage disputes, some insurance companies are now requiring their customers to file a lawsuit to resolve the dispute. Why would they do that, you ask? They must have realized that… they were paying too much in Read more…
is it classified as an advertisement? A recent high-profile blogging case in Virginia discusses this very issue. But rather than get into the merits of the above case, which you can read and decide for yourself, I will interject my opinion/bewilderment: are you kidding me? Of course attorney blogs are political speech Read more…
No, absolutely not. I am not going to dance around the issue. Washington State mandatory minimums of $25,000 are not enough. I have clients come into my office every week, it seems, with injuries greater than the state mandatory minimums. They ask me what can be done and I have to tell Read more…
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an online article about new devices insurance companies are using to monitor drivers.
I have decided that it’s time for me to come clean. I used to be insured by Allstate.
I know what you’re thinking. First, that the title of the book is Fast Food Nation. And second, that Mr. Schlosser’s book reminds you of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Most people I know would agree that we’re just eating too much high calorie, high sugar, high fat food and it’s affecting almost everything in Read more…
A recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling could scare away the snowbirds from Arizona (at least for surgeries). The Arizona Supreme Court ruled last week that a jury could award minimal damages to beneficiaries in a wrongful death claim, in this case to the adult children of Jerome Walsh. Mr. Walsh was a Read more…
My regular checkup at the dentist frequently starts off with a discussion about my dental hygiene, but often turns into a legal discussion. My dentist will occasionally tell me to stop talking in legal “mumbo jumbo” (for some reason he tells me of the origins of the phrase). “Wait a minute,” Read more…
What is tort reform, anyway? If you look in the dictionary, you’ll see the word tort and the word torture have the same root – the latin word for “twisted”. Think of a tort as torture without criminal intent. Or, in nicer words “a wrongful act other than a breach Read more…