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Does Your Dog Bite?
August 15th, 2023
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… Categories: Premises Liability
Insurance—What is it Good For?
July 26th, 2023
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… Categories: Insurance
Value Drivers
July 13th, 2023
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… 
Tiny Cases
June 29th, 2023
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… Categories: Personal Injury
Your Own Private Idaho
June 15th, 2023
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… Categories: Personal Injury
Medicare and Workers’ Compensation
May 25th, 2023
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’… Categories: Work Injuries
Where Do Cases Come From?
May 16th, 2023
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… Categories: General
A Culture of Acceptance…of Bikes
April 28th, 2023
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… Categories: General
Smile, You’re on Camera
April 5th, 2023
One thing that has changed drastically in my thirty three years as a practicing lawyer is the prevalence of video and cameras in our society. Where before a Polaroid “instant” camera seemed like magic, and a video camcorder let us videotape everything (as long as we carried the 10-pound thing ar… 
Life’s a Beach
March 30th, 2023
The weather is warming, players are reporting to baseball spring training in Arizona and Florida, and many people are planning to get away for vacations to warmer climates in the next few months, many with children in tow (in sync with their spring break schedules). What are some things you should d… Categories: General
