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• "I'd Rather the Kids Drink at My House"

  Ben Glass | February 16, 2006 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  How many times have you heard some idiot parent say "Oh, well, the kids are going to party anyway, I'd rather them do it at my house. It's safer?" While this particular case, fortunately, did not end up in a drunk driving accident and injury the judge slammed the door shut behind two really irresponsible "parents."The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld a 27-month jail sentence (yes, 27 months! In...

• Insurance Company Says "When Pigs Fly"

  Ben Glass | February 16, 2006 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Boise personal injury attorney Jeff White has a great post about a $3 million dollar verdict over a big insurance company's refusal to pay valid claims. Some states do a lot to protect policyholders. Virginia, unfortunately, tends to protect the insurance companies from "bad faith" types of lawsuits.

• Scare Tactics Used to Sell Insurance Miss the Point

  Ben Glass | February 16, 2006 9:37 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Here's an article from a local newspaper. It's well intentioned in that insurance of all sorts is important but its often confusing for the consumer. The problem here is that the article resorts to the common scare tactics of "multi million dollar lawsuits are increasing." That's just "noise." The articles misses a very important teaching point.One of the most important insurance policies you...

• Medical Malpractice Crisis? Not!

  Ben Glass | February 16, 2006 6:00 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  We've all heard that the main reason we pay so much for health insurance is because doctors pay so much for malpractice insurance. And the reason malpractice insurance rates go up is because "verdicts are out of hand." I've even seen doctors with big signs in their offices saying this. Only problem is that it's not true and study after study shows this.OK, so you would think that in states that...

• Insurers' Power in Disability Claims

  Staff Writer | February 15, 2006 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Karin Rives of the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer ezamines the difficulties of pursing ERISA disability claims. She focuses on Roger Dean Brown's fight against MetLife, and among other things, she notes the advantages the ERISA statute provides to insurers:ERISA also makes disability cases hard to win. Insurers have the right to deny a claim if their own in-house doctors and nurses who review...

• Disclaimer

  Staff Writer | March 02, 2005 11:57 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Verdicts and settlements reported on this blog are newsworthy and interesting but should not be taken as any claim or guarantee as to what your case may be worth. Each case is different and will be won or lost on its own facts. Ben Glass recomends that you speak to an experienced Board Certified personal injury or medical malpractice attorney about the facts of your case.The information found on...

• Benjamin W. Glass, III & Assoc. PC

  Staff Writer | February 14, 2005 5:28 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  We are "different".We don't rely on a high volume of cases. We don't claim to handle every type of law under the sun. We don't want to. We don't need to.Each year, we accept a limited number of serious injury, accident and disability cases from the hundreds of people who ask us to represent them. We are not a "TV advertising personal injury mill." Paralegals and assistants do not negotiate our...