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• Mild Brain Injury Verdict

  John Cooper | September 18, 2006 4:12 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Not long ago, we saw a huge verdict of $3,000,000.00 in a mild brain injury case in Hampton, VA.A 41 year old woman was driving when a dump truck took a left turn in front of her. In addition to orthopedic injuries, the woman suffered symptoms of brain injury like memory loss, anxiety and loss of balance. The emergency room doctors found no evidence of actual brain injury. This is very...

• My Law Firm Partner Doubles As Inventor of Fold Flat Products

  John Cooper | September 13, 2006 7:51 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  My partner, Rick Shapiro, edits the Virginia Beach IB blog and has been practicing mostly injury law for over 20 years, but is also an inventor of new "fold flat" products with patented folding wheel axles. He recently posted a blog article called seeing "Both Sides" which discusses being in the strange situation of inventing "fold flat" wagons, carts, wheelbarrows on the one hand, but also...

• Plaintiff's Lawyers Share Power of Information

  John Cooper | September 12, 2006 9:06 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Trial lawyers representing injured people have in recent years gained a huge advantage by sharing information over the internet with fellow plaintiff's side lawyers through listserves or groups of lawyers with a common interest.For years, defense lawyers have shared information with other lawyers representing big clients like insurance companies and corporations defending tort claims. These...

• Allstate's Dirty Hands Policy

  John Cooper | September 06, 2006 4:27 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A book is about to be published, over Allstate Insurance Company's objections, entitled "From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves - How Allstate Changed Casualty Insurance in America." This new book criticizing the insurance carrier is written by author David Berardinelli of New Mexico, who is a plaintiff's lawyer. He and his co-author allege that Allstate started a policy in the early 1990s to...

• Med Pay - The Forgotten Insurance Coverage

  John Cooper | September 05, 2006 4:02 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Medical payments ("med pay" for short) coverage, an option on automobile insurance, is extremely important to getting a good result in a personal injury case arising out of a car crash.Many people forget about med pay. Because it is an optional coverage on your automobile insurance, people do not always buy it. Medical payments coverage says that if you or anyone else gets hurt arising out of...