Miscellaneous

• Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits - You Paid For Them

  Brent Adams | February 07, 2009 9:55 AM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC

  Most United States taxpayers are the beneficiary of a disability insurance policy. This “policy” provides for monthly payments in the event that a wage earner becomes unable to...

• If you have purchased a workers compensation "Ghost" insurance policy, you may be entitled to a refund

  Brent Adams | May 09, 2008 10:11 AM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC

  If you were forced by a general contractor for an employer to buy a workers' compensation insurance policy and if you never had any employees during the time, the policy was enforced, you may very well be entitled to a refund of all the premiums you've paid for any such policies.

• Bad Faith Insurance Verdict Against Fireman's Fund

  Brent Adams | July 28, 2007 1:03 AM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC

  The Supreme Court of the State of Washington, on July 26, 2007 upheld a jury verdict of $750,000 against Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. and it's subsidary National Surety Co. for bad faith insurance practices. Fireman's refused to defend a lawsuit against Dr. Robert C. Woo, a dentist who was sued by a former enployee Tina Alberts who had also been his dental patient. The suit against Woo...

• Every Bad Faith Insurance Victim Cannot Have Good Morning America As Their Lawyer

  Brent Adams | February 01, 2009 9:20 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  Susan Kristoff of West Palm Beach, Florida was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer which was spreading throughout her body. There was no question in the mind of any...

• Returning To Work After A Workers' Compensation Injury

  Brent Adams | August 07, 2008 12:04 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  misconduct at work DO NOT GIVE THEM AN EXCUSE TO FIRE YOU Termination RETURN TO work WORK You should use extreme caution when you return to work after any workers’ compensation injury. Be sure not to give...

• U. S. Supreme Court Holds That Federal Law Protects Manufacturers Of Defective Hearing Aids.

  Brent Adams | April 23, 2008 1:13 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  Because of the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme court that medical device makers are protected from liability when their devices have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, a recent product liability case against the maker of a defective hearing aid has been dismissed by the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

• Hotel Shower Burns Causes Scarring and Disfigurement

  Brent Adams | March 27, 2008 11:07 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  A 79-year-old Hurricane Katrina refugee from New Orleans has filed a $100 million negligence suit against a New York, New York hotel, claiming that she fainted and suffered personal injuries due to being scalded while taking a shower in the hotel.According to Ethel Tropez, who now resides in Live Oak, Texas, the March 29, 2007 incident in the Hotel Chandler resulted in being badly burned and...

• COPD Drug May Be Harmful

  Brent Adams | March 26, 2008 2:49 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  According to a statement made on Tuesday, March 18 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a drug used for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be harmful to those who use it. As if the disabling condition of COPD was not difficult enough, the FDA says that Spiriva, a lung drug manufactured by Pfizer Inc. and German-based Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical...

• Oprah Winfrey Sued By Audience Member

  Brent Adams | March 25, 2008 2:27 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  A woman has filed a lawsuit claiming that while she was in Chicago, Illinois, she received personal injuries in a rush for seating at the set of the Oprah Winfrey talk show.According to the claims of Orit Greenberg, Harpo Studios exhibited negligence through their failure to control the audience during the December 5, 2006 incident. She filed the suit seeking damages in excess of...

• Hormone-replacement drug manufacturers must pay$ 27 Million punitive damages

  Brent Adams | March 07, 2008 2:22 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  A federal jury awarded an Arkansas breast cancer victim $ 27.2 million punitive damages award yesterday on top of $ 2.7 million in compensatory damages after she developed breast cancer from taking the defendants' hormone replacement drugs.The jury found that the defendants had not adequately warned Donna Scroggin that the drugs caused an increased risk of developing breast cancer.She had...