Miscellaneous

• Victims Warn Of Social Security Scam

  Brent Adams | December 12, 2007 11:09 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  Two Nebraska women are warning those retired, on disability, or otherwise to be careful of phone calls from individuals claiming to be from the Social Security Administration.According to Gina Slavik, she took one such call and as a result, ended up losing money. Slavik referred to the individual she received the phone call from as "smooth." He called her with the message that she was owed a...

• Escalators injure 10,000 each year.

  Brent Adams | December 11, 2007 10:02 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  Many children in the United States are injured as a result of their rubber shoes being caught in escalators. One popular brand known as "Crocs," swept across America being marketed as shoes that were "comfortable, cool, and molded to your feet," as their website says. Personal injury attorneys in Toledo, Ohio have seen many injuries that have occurred from accidents on elevators and escalators,...

• Starbucks cups for children recalled

  Brent Adams | December 10, 2007 9:30 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has recently released a statement which announced a voluntary recall of Starbucks children's plastic cups. Reportedly, the cups easily fracture, which leaves sharp edges and broken pieces that can pose a choking or laceration hazard for children.There have been seven reports received by Starbucks of cups breaking and two of those reports...

• Allstate Turns Its Back On Its Own Lawyer

  Brent Adams | December 09, 2007 1:59 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  Suzanne Guest dedicated her entire law career to Allstate Insurance Co. She spent years defending Allstate insured defendants who had been sued by the victims of motor vehicle negligence.All she did was work for Allstate. Allstate had agreed to defend her if she was ever sued in connection with her work for Allstate.How did Allstate repay Suzanne Guest for her dedicated years or hard work and...

• Why Do Social Security Disability Claimants Have to Appeal to Get Benefits

  Brent Adams | December 06, 2007 10:52 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  North Dakota Senator Bryan Dorgan questions the high rate of social security disability claims denials. The fact that there is a high win rate at the appeal level suggests that too many claims are denied on the initial application.Dan Neer, A Bismarck, North Dakota man who suffers from chronic back pain has been battling the Social Security Administration to receive disability benefits. Neer...

• Nightclub may be liable for stabbing outside its premises

  Brent Adams | December 06, 2007 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  A New York, NY man, Jason DeJesus, has filed a novel premises liability law suit against the Roxy, a popular New York City night club, for a stabbing that occurred outside the premises. His lawyer David Perecman has made the argument that his client was improperly protected by The Beer Garden, Inc., which owns the Roxy, after Mr. DeJesus was stabbed by another club patron a block and a half...

• Government Goes After Disabled Orphan for Social Security Overpayment

  Brent Adams | December 05, 2007 10:36 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  An Omaha, Nebraska orphan has been asked by the Social Security Administration to refund money that was paid to him 30 years ago.Jay Rovang, 50, said that he received a letter from the SSA which said that they wanted to be paid benefits that he was overpaid which total $662. Rovang is disabled and lives on a fixed income.According to Rovang, he began receiving survivor benefits at the age of...

• Military Gets Special Treatment From Social Security

  Brent Adams | December 04, 2007 10:56 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  Men and women who have become disabled while on active duty serving in the U.S. military are receiving 'expedited processing' of disability claims from Social Security. The expedited process is for those members of the U.S. military who were disabled on or after the date of October 1, 2001, no matter where the disability occurred. Benefits can be applied for and received by those in the military...

• Medical Malpractice Insurance Execs Give Back Profits

  Brent Adams | December 03, 2007 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  If anybody believes the false the inurance industry generated propaganda that there is a medical malpractice crisis, they should consider the recent revelation concerning Medical Mutual Insurance Company of North Carolina and its four top executives including its CEO. According to the Raleigh, North Carolina News and Observer, the North Carolina Department of Insurance, after an...

• HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY TAKES AWAY MALPRACTICE SETTLEMENT

  Brent Adams | December 02, 2007 7:32 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  Minnesota schoolteacher Tom Carey mortgaged his house in order to finance a medical malpractice lawsuit against the doctors and hospital whose medical blunders resulted in the prolonged, agonizing and painful death of his wife, Barbara. When the doctors settled, his wife's health insurance company tried to take it all away. A radiologist missed a spot on his wife's CT scan. The spot the doctor...