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• Upcoming Seminar Presentation on Medical Evidence at Trial

  John Cooper | August 24, 2006 2:31 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  John M. Cooper has prepared written materials on the topic of powerful medical evidence presentation at trial to be used at a seminar for other lawyers in Norfolk, VA on October 26, 2006. I will also present live at the class to teach other lawyers about use of medical evidence as a continuing legal education class offered through National Business Institute.After 18 years of practicing...

• Insurers Listen to Computer Not People

  John Cooper | August 19, 2006 3:26 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Many insurance companies, including Allstate, State Farm and Farmers, use a computer program to determine the value of injury claims. Some companies, such as Allstate, take the number that their computer program called Colossus spits out as the value of the claim giving no discretion to the claims representative negotiating the file. By hiding behind the computer, these insurance companies...

• Family awarded $1.5 million for missed melanoma

  John Cooper | August 18, 2006 3:20 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  A Virginia Beach jury recently awarded a family $1.5 million for the death of a 51 year old caused by the failure to diagnose cancer.The cancer started as a raw spot on a finger. The doctors treated it as just an infection. Only with a second biopsy did the doctors figure out that this was a melanoma. Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer. Unfortunately, the pathologist did not...

• Its No "Accident"

  John Cooper | August 17, 2006 2:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Personal injury lawyers are trained to use words to persuade. One key word that comes up in personal injury litigation again and again is the word "accident." People are very used to talking about automobile accidents or car accidents. The problem is that accident implies that it is nobody's fault. It allows the at fault driver to simply say, "Sorry, it was just an accident." There is even...

• Auto Black Box Secrets-Is Your Car Spying On You?

  John Cooper | August 16, 2006 2:03 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The use of black box or event data recorder in late model cars is becoming a hot topic in criminal and civil litigation. More police are using black boxes to help solve traffic crimes. In Virginia, police officers are routinely downloading this information, when necessary to help figure out what happened in a fatality crash. The police department in Norfolk, for instance, has the technology...