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People! Do not let the statute of limitations slip past on your personal injury cases in North Carolina.  I’ve had three calls this week from people who did not have lawyers and who waited until the last second, or past the last second, to call for advice. None of these calls ended on a happy…

I found this link with MSPRC’s website and thought it might be helpful to some of you. This link takes you to the PDF lists of all the Medicare diagnosis codes dating back to 2002. http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD9ProviderDiagnosticCodes/codes.html You can download the pdf files and open them in Acrobat and then CTRL F search for the codes…

Increasingly, lawyers find that even when an injured client has some type of health care coverage, when the client has been injured by the negligence of a third party, it is often difficult to get the health insurer to pay the bills. Typically, this stems from the Health Insurance contract having language that says the…

Just had a great straight forward question about the interaction of Medicaid Liens, Attorney Fees, and medical provider liens pursuant to NCGS 44-49-50. QUESTION: Is Medicaid’s lien capped at one third of liability proceeds received or half of what is left over after attorney’s fees? In other words, if I am pro-rating a Medicaid lien…

So we all know that President Obama is talking about some type of Health Care reform in America. I can tell you from years of representing those injured in car accidents, here in Raleigh and across the state of North Carolina, that we need some type of health care reform. The folks that need coverage…

CNN and WRAL are reporting that two people were found dead and a third person is still believed missing in a Garner food plant heavily damaged in a morning explosion. Four people were in critical condition after the explosion at the ConAgra Foods plant in the town of Garner and 20 others were taken to…

I frequently serve as an arbitration panel member for Uninsured (UM) and Underinsured Cases (UIM) in NC. Our standard UIM & UM policy says that if the claimant opts for arbitration instead of jury trial, then they get arbitration. This is a supremely efficient use of time and probably saves the state of North Carolina MILLIONS…

N.C. COURT OF APPEALS Where the right to intrastate travel is a “right of function,” the right to enter public parks is not encompassed by either the fundamental right of travel or the right to intrastate travel. We affirm the trial court order upholding the defendant-town’s ordinance, which prohibits registered sex offenders from knowingly entering…

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…