By Zack Needles | August 30, 2020
Plaintiffs personal injury lawyers are working—and, in some cases, succeeding—at finding new and creative ways to apply settlement pressure to insurers in a world where trials are scarce.
By Charles "Chuck" Bennett | August 30, 2020
It seems clear that jurors do not understand negligence in terms of a legal technicality, which they likely see as a game of gotcha.
By Raychel Lean | August 27, 2020
"In the COVID and post-COVID world, the most difficult thing is to pin an insurance carrier down and convey to them the importance of resolving a case quickly," plaintiffs counsel said.
By David Gialanella | August 26, 2020
"All civil litigators are thinking about future COVID-19-related cases, particularly in nursing and group homes, senior living facilities, and jails and prisons, but are careful to proceed because of the potential backlash in public perception," partners Thomas Vertetis and Darrell Cochran say.
By Angela Morris | August 26, 2020
A law firm in Houston can't force an ex-client into arbitration over a fee dispute because a nonlawyer employee misled the client into signing a legal contract, ruled Dallas' Fifth Court of Appeals.
By Charles Toutant | August 26, 2020
A woman who underwent spinal fusion surgery after the car she was riding in was rear-ended was paid a $1.3 million settlement in her Essex County…
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By Max Mitchell | August 25, 2020
In a proposed class action lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, two former Pittsburgh Steelers allege that the league has been improperly using race and ethnicity information to undercut their cognitive impairment claims.
By Greg Land | August 21, 2020
A federal judge in South Georgia has asked lawyers for more information after a man hit by a deputy's cruiser sought to void a $187,500 settlement he said he never agreed to.
By Alaina Lancaster | August 20, 2020
Motley Rice's Fidelma Fitzpatrick, who is lead counsel of the plaintiffs' executive committee for the California Joint Council Coordinated Proceedings and helped to negotiate the deal, said the proposed settlement would provide expedited relief to thousands of women.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | August 20, 2020
"It's such a crap shoot going after people's asset and them personally, which is what we would have had to do in this case," Stratford lawyer Ryan Miller said.
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