Personal Injury
Understanding Medical Payments Coverage
Medical payments coverage through your automobile insurance is often an overlooked and sometimes misunderstood coverage. Reasonably, consumers are more interested how much coverage they have for liability (if they are at fault), underinsured/uninsured (if someone else...
If a Trespasser is Injured on My Property, Am I Responsible?
As a landowner, you might wonder whether you need to be concerned about injuries that occur when someone trespasses on your property. Generally, trespassers enter your land at their own risk. Both common sense and the law acknowledge that you have “no duty to...
On The Road Again
If you are traveling out of state and are injured in an automobile accident due to the fault of another, you may have many questions, including where a claim should be brought, whether you will need a local attorney, and what your rights to recovery are. Your first...
Whose Insurance Should Pay for Vehicle Repairs?
After an accident, a new or potential client will often ask me: “Who should handle my wrecked vehicle – my insurance company or the at-fault driver’s insurance company?” True-to-attorney form, I often respond, “it depends.” Assuming both insurance companies have...
When Will I Receive My Worker’s Compensation Payments?
At our firm we field many inquiries from individuals who have had the misfortune of sustaining a work injury that naturally have the question: When do I start receiving benefits from the workers’ compensation insurer? Very broadly speaking, as every case/situation is...
Camp Lejeune Justice Act
The word Le jeune translates from French as young or youthful. This seemingly benign name does not accurately reflect the decades of water contamination and coverup that occurred at the Marine Corp Base Camp Lejeune. Between 1953 and 1987, it is estimated that nearly...
Do Pedestrians Have the Right-of-Way?
I recently heard someone say as they confidently stepped off a curb into the street, “In Wisconsin, cars have to stop for us. Pedestrians always have the right-of-way.” Having grown up in Michigan, where our rules of the road have their own oddities (look up a...
Hospital Liens: A Threat to Your Personal Injury Case
If you have health insurance, Medicaid or Medicare and you go to a hospital in your insurer’s network for treatment, the hospital is required to submit the treatment bills to your health insurer, Medicaid or Medicare. You may have to pay a deductible, co-pay or...
Can Amazon be Held Responsible for Defective Products Sold by Third Party Vendors?
Amazon, the e-commerce giant, sells over 350 million products online, which includes millions of products from third-party vendors. More than 95 million Americans now have Amazon Prime memberships. What happens if someone gets seriously injured by using a defective...