My number one question this week: Can I sue a business I visited if I get Coronavirus? Most folks want to know who would pay their potentially enormous medical bills. Here is my legal explanation. If you go out, even if you wear a mask and stay 6 feet from...
I got a call this week from a person who was rear-ended and wanted to know if he had a case. He said he was suffering pain but was afraid to go to the emergency room. He feared catching the COVID-19 virus and, therefore, was trying to treat himself at home. I...
Do you video call? Did you do it before the coronavirus attack? Well, many lawyers did not, and they are having some trouble adjusting to the new freedom. To keep our social distance, we now video call into the courtroom, video conference to take depositions...
Let me give you a little bit of Alabama law history to argue about while confined. Here we go. It is generally illegal in our state to cover your face in public. I say generally because Mobile altered the law; so that, you guessed it, we could wear masks during...
What you may be going through because of the coronavirus is not that different than what my clients and I go through after a serious injury. Here is what I have learned from facing trouble for more than a few decades: Stay level-headed. Be realistic. Look at...
Here, in short, is what my clients, friends, and relatives seem to want to know while we fight the coronavirus. Will my insurance company pay for my coronavirus test? Yes. A new law now requires insurance companies to pay for the tests with no cost to you. This...
You may have heard this story out of Dothan. An uninsured woman is charged more than $50,000 for a procedure that usually costs an insured person about $6,000. Plus, this Dothan woman had been paying on the bill each month for 3 years. Then the lawyers stepped...
It is a tragedy that probably could have been fixed with a few thousand dollars and a good body shop. Instead, one man is dead and another faces murder charges. You have heard of this type of story before … not just that often here in Mobile, AL. Earlier this...
A friend, now in his 60s, asked me why he must show his driver’s license to buy an alcoholic beverage in Alabama. Let me do some lawyersplaining. First, the server might think he looks under 21. Unlikely, but it could happen. In Alabama, you cannot sell (or...
Here is the shocking thing – In Alabama, a jury can learn about medical insurance but can not learn about auto insurance. What? It is true. Under Alabama law, you can not mention or even imply that auto insurance will pay for a verdict. If a lawyer even...