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Wait For It…

The maxim of comedy to “wait for it,” meaning, wait for the punchline, is ingrained into my memory mostly by the fabulously written, outrageous comedy of the early aughts, Arrested Development. Much as I will never be able to hear an air horn again without jumping immediately to an image of Pete…
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Categories: Bicycle Accidents

Policing Workers’ Compensation

Many people have an image in their minds of what workers’ compensation cases look like, or, more specifically, what workers’ compensation clients look like. They imagine that most workers’ compensation cases involve blue collar workers who work in physically demanding jobs. While this is p…
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Categories: Work Injuries

Does Your Dog Bite?

Dog bites are serious. But whenever I think of dog bites, I remember the 1976 movie “The Pink Panther Strikes Again.” It made a 12-year-old me laugh hysterically. Arguably, in many ways, my sense of humor may still be that of a 12-year-old boy, but that’s a story for another time. There is a s…
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Categories: Premises Liability

Insurance—What is it Good For?

Automobile insurance, health insurance, homeowner’s insurance, renter’s insurance. Med pay/PIP, comprehensive, collision, umbrella, and a few dozen other types. How many of you really understand what each type of insurance covers and how it works? To me, there is no more important subject about…
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Categories: Insurance

Value Drivers

Many people are familiar with the term “value drivers.” We see it applied to all sorts of business dealings, employment situations, and also personal injury cases. In a nutshell, a “value driver” is something that increases the worth of a product, service, or asset. And believe it or not, th…
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Tiny Cases

Many people hear about large verdicts or settlements in the news and assume that all legal cases are huge, dealing with large amounts of money, huge injuries or damages, and massive numbers of lawyers and legal teams. In reality, few cases are worthy of news attention and even fewer have any of the…
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Categories: Personal Injury

Your Own Private Idaho

The B-52s song “Private Idaho” always conjures up (to me) someone in his or her own headspace, oblivious to the rest of the world. Perhaps like someone cruising along in their car, singing with the radio, eating lunch, answering a text, or just spacing out, seemingly unaware of anything around t…
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Categories: Personal Injury

Medicare and Workers’ Compensation

You didn’t see that coming, did you? Medicare and workers’ compensation don’t seem to have anything to do with one another. Yet for an increasing number of injured workers, Medicare is very much a part of their workers’ compensation case. Workers’ Compensation—a Quick Recap Workers’…
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Categories: Work Injuries

Where Do Cases Come From?

If you are fortunate enough to be a layperson instead of a lawyer (lawyer joke alert!), you may wonder how lawyers get the cases they have. If you read my recent blog about “hammer lawyers,” you already know that prodigious advertising and marketing is a necessity for many injury lawyers, where…
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Categories: General

A Culture of Acceptance…of Bikes

A recent trip to one of my favorite cities in the world, Amsterdam, got me thinking about bicycle culture and how bikes, cars, and pedestrians can coexist. Can it work in our cities? Bike Culture in Amsterdam and the Netherlands (and Denmark) One of the places on earth most accepting of bicycles on…
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Categories: General