Posts tagged personal injury

• Arizona Considering Unconstitutional Changes to Compulsory Arbitration Procedure To Benefit Insurers

  Geoff Trachtenberg | April 06, 2007 2:26 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In the past I have written about the compulsory arbitration procedure in Arizona.Currently, there is a bill, SB1054, in the Arizona Legislature amending ARS 12-133, i.e., changing the mandatory arbitration procedure.While I could care less about the bulk of main charge of the amendment (i.e., to raise the permissible arbitration limits to $65,000 and modestly raise arbitrator pay), it also...

• Why You Need an Attorney That Knows How to Resolve Liens in a Personal Injury Matter

  Geoff Trachtenberg | March 27, 2007 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There's a saying concerning doctors that applies with equal force to lawyers:Do you know what they call the person graduating medical school in the bottom of their class?"Doctor."On par with hiring an attorney with superior personal injury knowledge and experience is finding an attorney with the knowledge and skill to properly resolve healthcare-related liens. Such an attorney can make the...

• Attorney Referrals Used to Show Bias In Personal Injury Suits

  Geoff Trachtenberg | March 26, 2007 11:21 AM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It might surprise you, but defense lawyers salivate over attorney referrals to medical providers. Indeed, "attorney referral" is even a factor in the pre-litigation "evaluation" systems used by insurers. Defense lawyers make the argument that, where a tort victim goes to an attorney and gets a doctor referral, the injured person's care is suspect and/or "attorney-driven," regardless of any...

• Like a Good Neighbor?

  Geoff Trachtenberg | March 22, 2007 10:17 PM | 1 CommentScottsdale, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Randy Udelman reports on the record profits from State Farm Insurance, noting:In the midst of its record-setting year, according to a recent story on CNN, State Farm apparently adopted a policy to minimize settlement offers for low-impact motor vehicle collisions forcing accident victims to take substantially low settlement offers or spent significant costs in litigation. Moreover, Katrina...

• Liability for Negligent Creation of a Dangerous Condition

  Geoff Trachtenberg | March 21, 2007 10:38 AM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  When someone gets hurt on property or on a roadway, the issue that is litigated is typically whether there was sufficient "notice" to the property owner or entity responsible for the roadway. Often, however, proving such notice is not required where the defendant is responsible for creating the dangerous condition. As the Arizona Supreme Court recognized in Isbell v. Maricopa County, 198 Ariz....

• Negligent Injury or Death of a Pet

  Geoff Trachtenberg | March 20, 2007 8:06 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  For many pet-owners, pets are more like family members than simple property, so what happens when a pet is negligently injured or worse? Historically, those pets were treated just like property and the owners were simply entitled to the "market value" or "replacement value" of the pets. While the law varies from state to state, in Arizona the courts have suggested that pet owners may have a...

• Vioxx Jury Selection to Begin

  Christina Cole | February 21, 2007 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It has been three years since a 52-year-old woman died of a heart attack. Now the widower and pharmaceutical company are getting ready to fight out whether the painkiller Vioxx was the cause of her death. This is one of many personal injury lawsuits filed against the makers of Vioxx.The jury selection has begun in the first Midwest trial over Vioxx, the arthritis medication that Merck & Co.,...

• Levenbaum & Cohen, Attorneys and Counselors at Law

  Staff Writer | February 15, 2007 8:23 AM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Personal injury laws cover a wide range of physical and emotional injuries suffered by a person as a result of the wrongful conduct of another. We will develop your case so that we can convincingly prove that the wrongdoer is legally responsible for your injuries. We will also work with you to establish the full extent of your damages--including pain and suffering, disfigurement, medical bills...