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If you are a lawyer who sometimes helps your clients with settlements by recommending a structured settlement (annuity) the shake up of AIG should be a topic of conversation.  I emailed one of my friends, Bryan Milner, who is a structured settlement broker and gave him a Q & A on questions I anticipate my…

Well, the world’s ugliest law blog has hit 30,000 unique visitors after a little less than 2 years of operations. Not bad for a blog concentrating on one of the more boring topics in the world: liens and subrogation. Here are the stats as of today: Maybe I’ll set my summer intern loose on trying…

NC Lawyers’ Weekly has provided a great link to an article that was run in the Winston-Salem Journal about contributory negligence laws in North Carolina.  Contrubutory Negligence is an issue that people don’t know or care about, until they face the problem themselves. Basically, in NC, even if you are hurt by someone else’s negligence,…

Because I run a business that is, in part, dependent on advertising, I check out Google searches to see where my firm “places” in the Google rankings. While looking through some of the “top hits” I found a local Raleigh firm “recommended” by a Blogger. Sure, why not? Except that this “Blogger” is from another…

I had a great time speaking to the New Lawyers at the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers today. I promised to post the supporting materials and you can download the Personal injury Checklist here. Good luck to all of you. If you need to ask any questions, just email me though my website. _____________________…

For those of you who are like me and get confused calculating birthdays and age, I’ve found a nifty little age calculator. I’m always second guessing myself on when a minor becomes an adult and how that figures into Statute Of Limitations. In NC, a minor’s statute of limitations does not begin until their 18th…

I read an interesting newspaper article over the weekend by Robert Pear for the New York Times News Service.  Read the article here.  Another good version of the article can be read here. The article says that the Bush administration “will no longer pay the extra costs of treating preventable errors, injuries and infections that…

The WorkPlaceProf Blog has posted an interesting case which has some very minor posisbilities of being a “nose under the tent” in NC to avoid ERISA liens. Basically, the case cited from the US Supreme Court has allowed a state to trump ERISA in order to “take” money away from a retirement plan for a…

To often, politics of the right and the left interfere with the stark reality of tort reform. In the past decade or so, conservatives have used “tort-reform” as a political “wedge issue” and have spent multi-millions of dollars to turn the public, and juries, against all Plaintiffs. The article below was written by a self-described…

As I’m getting ready for a trial, I’m constantly reminded that the “reason the case is going to trial” has more to do with the defendant’s insurance company than anything else. It’s frustrating as an attorney fighting for justice because I have the burden of proof for the “facts” of the case, but what the…