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• Jury Returns $ 4.4 million Verdict For Death Of Beloved Coach

  Brent Adams | December 31, 2007 1:56 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The family of a beloved coach Yarmouth, Massachusetts killed in a bus accident outside of Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts won a personal injury/wrongful death suit from a Suffolk Superior Court jury worth a minimum of $4.4 million. . The jury returned their verdict late Tuesday December 18, 2007.The accident occurred in the fall of 2003 as a bus shuttled passengers to the parking lot...

• Social Security Disability Cheaters Make It Difficult For Legitimate Claimants

  Brent Adams | December 30, 2007 12:44 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A couple in Rapid City, South Dakota was indicted in federal court on the week beginning with Sunday, December 16 for allegedly lying to the government in order to receive fraudulent Social Security benefits for disability.According to the indictment, Lonnie Holloman has been the recipient of $123,333 in fraudulent Social Security Disability Income since he sustained an injury to his back in...

• Celebrity Sues Drug Manufacturer

  Brent Adams | December 06, 2007 11:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife have sued the manufacturer of the blood-thinning drug heparin after their twin babies nearly died from a massive overdose of the widely distributed drug.The twins were given 10,000 units of heparin rather that the 10 units of heplock, a diluted version of heparin.It was a terrifying time for the Quaids as their newborn twins, a boy and a girl, fought for their...

• Disabled diabetes victims may collect full Social Security disability insurance benefits.

  Brent Adams | December 06, 2007 10:54 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Diabetes is one of the leading causes of disability in the United States. This horrible disease is a leading cause of heart disease, blindness, and nerve damage and kidney failure.Many United Stated citizens are disabled as a result of complications from diabetes.These disabled Americans are entitled to full Social Security disability insurance benefits. If you are unable to earn a substantial...

• Backlog of Social Security Disibility Claims At An All Time High

  Brent Adams | December 04, 2007 11:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The backlog of disability cases that are on appeal currently facing the Social Security Administration is at an all time high and still continually rising. In the past six years, the backlog has doubled and by the year 2010, it could reach 1 million, according to Social Security. However, despite these bleak statistics, there are several agencies who offer help to low-income claimants during the...

• Huge Salaries Paid to Medical Malpractice Insurance Company Execs

  Brent Adams | December 04, 2007 9:03 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  When listening to the false propaganda generated by insurance companies concerning the alleged "medical malpractice crisis", you should consider the huge salaries paid to the four top executives of Medical Mutual Insurance Company of North Carolina. These four executives collected over $2 million paid for their services in 2006. When you hear numbers like that, you need to ask yourself the...

• Post-claim underwriting:An Unfair Insurance Practice

  Brent Adams | December 03, 2007 2:18 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Some health insurance companies regularly engage in an unfair practice of post-claim underwriting. Underwriting, is a practice of conducting an investigation in order to determine if an insurance company is willing to incur the risk of issuing an insurance policy. With respect to health insurance, underwriting includes such activities as obtaining and reading the insurance applicant's...

• A big Verdict: But it will not pay the bills

  Brent Adams | December 02, 2007 6:26 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  What do you think about when you hear that a jury has a returned a verdict for $10.4 million dollars? A runaway jury? The lawsuit lottery? Rapacious lawyers? All of the above? A stunning verdict recently returned in Forsyth County, North Carolina demonstrates that what some people might call a runaway verdict, is actually very modest when compared to the tremendous losses suffered by the...