Frequently, I’ll have a conversation with an adjuster that goes like this: Adjuster: We’re offering to settle for medical expenses plus $1,000 in general damages.Me: My client can’t accept $1,000 in general damages as full compensation. She is still in pain more than a year after the car collision. What Read more…
If you have health insurance, you are fortunate. However, if you work for a large, multi-state employer, a recent Supreme Court ruling could prevent you from recovering compensation for your damages if you are injured in a car accident. How is that possible, you wonder? Well, the Supreme Court of Read more…
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.
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…
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…