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A great friend of mine, Joy Chudacoff of Smart Women, Smart Solutions, regularly publishes a newsletter geared toward life solutions for women. Joy is a Certified Professional Coach Her mission statement says it all: Smart Women Smart Solutions is a full-service coaching and consulting firm devoted to enriching the lives of women who are making a difference — in their careers, in their homes, in the world. She recently published an article entitled “Smart Women Have a Good GPS.” I’m a great fan of GPS (Global Positioning Systems) technology so I began reading her article. Well, lo and behold, it had… Read More

Well, there is justice after all. No one, not even the multibillion dollar insurance industry, is above the law. I, for one, am glad to see that major corporate greed and deceit has not gone unpunished. Convictions for, among other things, mail fraud, conspiracy, and false statements to the SEC have humbled at least 5 insurance executives and have hopefully injected indescribable into many other insurnace executives sitting on the sidelines in anticipation of last week’s verdict. Essentially, the government presented evidence that the defendants engaged in a scheme to falsely inflate AIG’s reported loss reserves, a key indicator of… Read More

Being bitten or attacked by a dog can prove to be one of the most devastating experiences of a person’s life. You may find that, after being bitten, the love that you once had for dogs suddenly turns to fear and mistrust. The emotional and physical scarring that result from a dog bite oftentimes requires extensive medical treatment, scar removal or reduction and psychological counseling to restore you to the person that you were before this unsettling event. There are nearly 5 million Americans that are bitten each year by dogs with almost one million causing injuries which require medical… Read More

Miss May T., a then 17 year old girl, slipped on black ice outside of a convenience store and suffered an excruciatingly painful bimalleolar fracture of her right ankle. Her injuries were so severe that massive swelling ensued and the doctors were unable to operate on her ankle for over a week! While May writhed in unspeakable pain and doctors were unable to do anything more than give her pain pills (which she was reluctant to take), the insurance carrier for the convenience store denied liability! A massive liability dispute arose. I hired a meteorologist, a slip and fall expert and a private investigator to get… Read More

Wonderful Insults: The following assortment of clever insults was sent to me by my good friend Gregg Seaman of Creativer Services Advertising, Inc. who writes “These glorious insults are from an era when cleverness with words was still valued, before a great portion of the English language was boiled down to four-letter words! I hope you enjoy these!” The exchange between Churchill and Lady Astor: She said, “If you were my husband, I’d give you poison,” and he said, “If you were my wife, I’d take it.” Gladstone, a member of Parliament, to Benjamin Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or… Read More

New York Personal Injury Lawyer Eric Turkewitz Reports The Following in his Blog: State Farm Hit With Civil RICO Claim Over Sham Medical Exams State Farm has been sued for racketeering in New York with a claim that it conspired with “Independent Medical Exam” companies and medical practitioners to produce fraudulent and sham medical reports. The suit, filed January 30th in the Eastern District of New York, is brought under the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act (RICO). (This story has not been previously reported.) State Farm acted in concert with “IME” companies and doctors to furnish fraudulent and boilerplate reports, according to the… Read More

Quoting directly from Wikipedia, Presidents Day (or Presidents’ Day), is the common name for the federal holiday officially designated as Washington’s Birthday, and both variants are among the official names of a number of coinciding state holidays. It is celebrated on the third Monday of February. “As the official title of the federal holiday, Washington‘s Birthday was originally implemented by the federal government of the United States in 1880 in the District of Columbia (20 Stat. 277) and expanded in 1885 to include all federal offices (23 Stat. 516). As the first federal holiday to honor an American citizen, the holiday was celebrated on Washington’s actual birthday, February 22. January 1, 1971 the federal holiday was shifted to the… Read More

How horrific it was for my client, Mrs. F., an innocent woman legally slowing down for a stop to be suddenly, and without warning, be rear-ended by a drunk driver. Otherwise in great health, this lovely lady’s life was turned asunder by the flagrant disregard of a guy who was more concerned with his afternoon cocktails than the safety of other people on the road on which he drove. The physical impact to Mrs. F’s car was so severe that it was deemed a total loss. In particular, the insurance company felt that it would cost more to repair her car… Read More

What an incredible site! You are the surgeon as you perform a virtual hip replacement, hip resurfacing or knee surgery. You are the crash investigator at an accident scene. Try it out. It gives us all an appreciation for the role of a professional in these intense circumstances. Having handled many accident cases wherein my clients have had to have hip and/or knee surgeries, this website was of great interest to me.

Consumer Law & Policy Blog, an incredible blog which keeps you up to date on many aspects of consumer law such as the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis, has posted the following article of interest: Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Marsha Berzon, ruled that American Corrective Counseling Services (ACCS), the nation’s largest operator of “check diversion” programs, may not shield itself from a consumer class action over its aggresive debt-collection practices by invoking the doctrine of state sovereign immunity. (Information about the case, including the briefs and opinion, is available here.) I’ve blogged here before about… Read More