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July 30, 2013

Keys to a Successful Mediation

...“no serious injuries” during the five years before he filed his disability claim! 5. When I asked him “Why?!”, he answered, “I thought if I told them the truth, I would be denied my disability claim.”Having established without doubt that my client would lie for money, we had no choice but to lower our demand. Neither of these cases would have settled if we had rigidly stuck to our preconceived ideas. My point is that until mediation it is hard to...

October 2, 2013

Amazon Comes to My Client’s Rescue – Don’t Believe Everything You Think, by Thomas Kida

...re acting upon the conclusion. We must consider several hypothesis to each claim and determine the best and most probably (and realistic) hypothesis before believing. Chapter 3 helps you to learn how to think like a scientist. A claim or a belief must be tested by gathering all the evidence and confirmed only through successive and very controlled tests, preferably with different subjects and conditions and the results should lead to the same conc...

March 15, 2014

Personal Injury Glossary

...States workers by state and federal law. Wrongful Death — A wrongful death claim is a legal action by survivor’s of a deceased individual. In order to have such a claim, the loved one’s death must have been caused by the wrongful actions of another party. The decedent’s loved ones, bringing the claim, may receive monetary compensation for their losses, as determined by the court. Every state has a wrongful death statute; however, the laws may diff...

March 15, 2014

Truck Accidents

...gful Death Commercial vehicles usually carry at least a million dollars in insurance coverage to pay for the claims of those they injury or kill on the roads. However, the insurance company will not pay those damages willingly. It often takes an aggressive truck accident lawyer who is able to secure evidence such as driver logbooks, truck service records and hiring records. It also may also take appropriate experts such as accident reconstructioni...

July 27, 2014

My Areas of Legal and Geographical Practice

..., and associate as necessary. b. Premises liability (slip and fall) cases, insurance bad faith (refusal to settle your claim properly), industrial injuries (deliberate intent), and medical malpractice. c. As a longstanding member of the WV Assoc. for Justice, and its Board of Governors, I have learned who has the best reputations is various parts of the state, and I associate on major matters with those most familiar with local judges and courts....

January 26, 2017

Then and Now for a Personal Injury Attorney – Slip and Fall

...siest foot traffic area of the store, is usually a pretty good basis for a claim, especially if the claimant was wearing good, well treaded, shoes, as she was. It is not the same standard for a private residence where the visitor is called a “licensee”, a person who is presumptively there primarily for their own benefit. Therefore, a person injured at a friend or neighbor’s home has a much more difficult standard to meet. And many homeowners do no...

February 20, 2015

How I Became a Communist?

...ance companies and big business to intimidate people, even those with just claims, abandon or compromise those claims because they cannot bear true risk of paying the insurance companies’ legal expenses. Now, please look below. The Federalist Papers, authored by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, explained what the “rad right”, and fundamentalist Moslems in the Middle East cannot wrap their heads around, that government, of imperfect human beings, especi...

September 18, 2011

The Mystery of Equitable Estoppel

...of the other person’s mistake, is barred or “estopped” from asserting his claim or his defense. PLEASE, do not expect the average lawyer to understand promissory or equitable estoppel. You see, I was the fellow who relied on the insurance adjustors assurances and missed a statute of limitation, and the lawyer whose client failed to get the sellers to sign a new listing agreement, and of the man who failed to get a court order approving the change...

February 27, 2017

A Summing Up of Eight Years’ of Blogging

...w I run my office, my thoughts on professionalism and collegiality, myriad insurance issues, bad faith, “deliberate intent” industrial injury law, alternate dispute resolution, e.g. mediation, arbitration, ethics, civil disputes and litigation, religion, politics, philosophy, and history. If I could wave a magic wand, I would edit out 25%-30% of 1300 pages. I would ease up on the lecturing tone and the appearance of condescension. Am I ashamed of...

July 7, 2010

So, You Think A Divorce May Be In Your Future?

...om and file for a protective order, NO ONE WILL BELIEVE YOU LATER WHEN YOU CLAIM IT HAPPENED! Abuse victims have a responsibility to themselves and their children to act on the abuse and seek protection from the Courts. d. One distinction. If you file for a protective order claiming a battery or assault, the police may charge your spouse, and convict, even without your willing assistance. Such a conviction takes away that person’s right to own or...