147 Search Results for "personal injury"

August 31, 2010

Social Media for Lawyers, and Real People

...book, but I still doubt I can make it work. I just don’t know if divorce, personal injury law, and civil litigation, can generate enough interest to generate “followers” to my tweets. But, I think it is the combination that may work in time. I have 255 Facebook Friends. It could be 1000, but I have been very careful. I backed off at 120, below 100, and started anew. I accept or request people I really know, sometimes a close relative of someone I...

August 9, 2021

Our Recommitment to Excellence 2021

...ars of paralegal training, and watch Letetia mature into one of the finest personal injury, civil, and family paralegals in the state of West Virginia. Recently, we have begun “digging down“ in the ways to manage the vast amount of medical information we receive regarding our injury clients. In a world in which every billboard shouts about the well-dressed lawyers fighting the “evil adjusters”, caring more about the clients than the other guy, and...

November 1, 2010

How an Attorney Can Be a Good Adversary

...nt numbers, and account balances. 3. The equivalent to this information in personal injury claims is all medical bills and records, documentation of lost wages and benefits, client diaries, and “lay witness letters” describing the claimant’s behavior before and after the collision. 4. A good adversary, when assigned to do an order by the Court , completes that order in less than a week, copies the other party, allows input when possible, and does...

November 1, 2010

How an Attorney Can Be a Good Adversary

...nt numbers, and account balances. 3. The equivalent to this information in personal injury claims is all medical bills and records, documentation of lost wages and benefits, client diaries, and “lay witness letters” describing the claimant’s behavior before and after the collision. 4. A good adversary, when assigned to do an order by the Court , completes that order in less than a week, copies the other party, allows input when possible, and does...

March 1, 2022

Some Guidance for “Deliberate Intent” or “Industrial Accident” Claims

...awfirm.net)   Oil and Gas Explosions – Attorney J. Burton Hunter III : Attorney J. Burton Hunter III (hunterlawfirm.net)   What? Sue my employer? (Deliberate Intent) – Attorney J. Burton Hunter III : Attorney J. Burton Hunter III (hunterlawfirm.net)   A Personal Injury Glossary: Negligence, Insurance, and the Rest – Attorney J. Burton Hunter III : Attorney J. Burton Hunter III (hunterlawfirm.net)   A ROADMAP TO BURTON HUNTER’S IDEAS AND “WISDOM” –...

March 15, 2014

Medical Malpractice

...cal malpractice, please contact me, attorney J. Burton Hunter, III. I am a personal injury lawyer who represents clients in medical malpractice claims, including those involving: Birth injury Surgical errors Emergency room mistakes Wrong diagnosis, including cancer misdiagnosis Failure to diagnose cancer and other diseases Nursing medication errors Pharmacy errors Medical malpractice is not always due to a doctor or nurse’s mistake. Sometimes hosp...

July 23, 2022

Enhancing the Human Brain 2022. 2.0

...reve in creating modules for billing and time management, client data, and personal injury practice management. We use those systems today. They still work. Service providers want $10,000-$15,000 to convert our data to a new system. We can do a “conflict search” back over 40 years! As I have a five year window before I hang it up, I probably won’t convert. But look below for a good practice management system, Clio. This is the icon for you Apple i...

March 15, 2014

Industrial Accidents

...pensate you for everything you have lost. In West Virginia, you can file a personal injury lawsuit against your employer in cases of extreme negligence that results in injury or wrongful death. What is Deliberate Intent? Some types of risk are obvious, such as operating a saw without a safety guard or climbing to the top step of a ladder. If your employer knew to a reasonable degree of certainty that you were going to be injured, and asked you to...

October 13, 2014

Nuts and Bolts of Preparing For Your Deposition

...erse witness such as your spouse’s “paramour”. Depositions are the norm in personal injury, medical malpractice, industrial accident, and insurance bad faith cases. I know one, only one, lawyer who routinely takes depositions in order to run up costs and cow the opposition. I have seen it succeed, and it disgusts me. Let’s assume you are a plaintiff in an auto accident, or the petitioner in a divorce. What do you need to do in order to prepare? 1....

November 21, 2017

Robert M. Morris; a Lawyer for Others to Emulate.

...be of service. It was as if our firm still existed. He would call me about personal injury, family, and civil matters, and, after he became assistant prosecuting attorney, I would call him on juvenile, criminal, and real estate matters. Bob was honest, caring, smart, meticulous, dutiful, serious about his craft, witty (especially at serious moments such as funerals), diligent every day of his life, well-liked by colleagues, friends, and family, bu...