Posts tagged insurance

• Accident? Insurance Will Fix Your Car; Diminished Value is Your Problem

  Mike Ferrara | September 05, 2011 2:07 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that insurance customers have no right to compensation for the loss in value that occurs when their vehicles are wrecked in crashes and then repaired through...

• New Law Will Make Drug Company Gifts to Doctors Public on the Web

  Mike Ferrara | April 29, 2010 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A new federal law will require doctor gifts from drug and medical companies to be published in a freely accessible online database. The Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires...

• Beware of Health Insurance Scams Post-Health Care Bill

  Mike Ferrara | April 07, 2010 7:41 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius issued a warning this week that Americans should be on the lookout for scam artists peddling bogus insurance plans. Since the...

• Kansas Attorney General: No Grounds to Sue Over Health Care Bill

  Mike Ferrara | April 03, 2010 8:27 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Kansas Attorney General Steve Six has announced that he can’t and won’t sue the federal government over the recently passed health care bill. “Based on that...

• Health Insurance Mandate Was Originally a Republican Idea

  Camryn Hansen | March 29, 2010 7:28 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Most health care opponents who violently object to the mandate in the recently passed health care bill that nearly every American must have health insurance or face a tax penalty probably...

• Surprise! The Tort Reformers are Hiring Lawyers.

  Mike Ferrara | March 27, 2010 8:48 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Earlier in the week, Anthony Tarricone, President of the American Association for Justice, published an article in the Huffington Post that makes a great observation. Before the health...

• The Health Care Bill: Constitutional or Unconstitutional?

  Mike Ferrara | March 23, 2010 7:58 PM | 38 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Opponents of the health care bill that was signed into law today by President Obama are already arguing that it’s not constitutional. Many people are asking where the US...

• Georgia Supreme Court: Jury Award Limits Violate the Constitution

  Mike Ferrara | March 22, 2010 7:52 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In a huge victory for patients’ rights, the Georgia Supreme Court has struck down limits on jury awards in medical malpractice cases, including the state’s $350,000 cap on noneconomic...

• Will the Health Care Bill Really Heal America?

  Camryn Hansen | March 19, 2010 9:04 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In honor of the long-awaited health care reform bill that Congress might vote on as soon as Sunday, I’m reading The Healing of America: The Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer...

• Illinois Supreme Court: Noneconomic Damage Caps are Unconstitutional

  Mike Ferrara | March 17, 2010 8:48 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In a decision the whole country should pay attention to, the Illinois Supreme Court has struck down the state's $500,000 cap on noneconomic damages, declaring the cap an unconstitutional...