Wanting to reopen a personal injury case usually comes when the injured person needs additional medical treatment. Sadly, here is the answer I generally must give – once you sign a settlement with an insurance company, that is it forever. Now there are some...
Signing the Alabama-brokered Terminix Settlement Agreement could cost you tens of thousands of dollars. Internal Terminix documents acknowledge the company is aware that wronged customers usually receive much more money for their claims when represented by an...
Products are required to be safe. When they are not, you can expect the manufacturer to pay for your injuries. Of course, they probably won't do that without a fight. Here are 3 things that can make a product defective. Bad Design – the way that the product was...
After a serious accident, you can never go back to before. For my legal clients, some will never celebrate a Christmas the same way or drive past a specific intersection without feeling sadness, fear, and perhaps regret – all because of a horrifying accident....
Join us live on Sunday, January 17, 2021. Football season is over (Roll, Tide), and it is time to return to our 30-minute legal call-in format for NBC 15 LawCall, here in Mobile, AL. As it has been for roughly a decade, the show is on at 10:30 Sunday nights,...
One of the questions I get most often is, “Can I just handle my case myself?” Well, you can. But you shouldn’t. Now, it is true that I have been known to tell potential clients that the offer an insurance company has presented them is fair. In that case, they...
Because of less traffic but the same number of troopers on the road this Christmas and New Year’s, my prediction is you will see more tickets being given for what are considered minor infractions. So, to keep you safe and ticket free, here are some reminders of...
I like Christmas lights. But what do you think of the car pictured above? The Royal Canadian Mounties tweeted this photo after pulling over the car and issuing the driver a warning. The tweet included, “Please don't do this, it can be dangerous if they [the...
Have you heard --- the main reason for delays in settling injury cases is the pandemic? It seems to make sense. It just isn’t true. Rather, the current delay is all about money. Bottom line, the insurance company wants to keep and make as much of it as...
The pandemic is frightening many Gulf Coast people from trying to collect the money owed them after being hurt at a business or someone’s home. These concerns have hit a particular type of injury law -- what we call “slip and fall.” Some examples are when a person...