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• Beware of any Group Disability Policy

  Ben Glass | June 15, 2009 1:57 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Many professional athletes find themselves doing battle with their sports group disability plan insurance carrier. In 2006, an appeals court awarded the estate of former Pittsburgh Steelers...

• Can Virginia's Birth Injury Fund Survive?

  Ben Glass | November 02, 2008 7:26 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Investment holdings used of the purpose of ensuring that babies born in Virginia that are catastrophically injured due to medical malpractice during childbirth have lifetime medical payments have...

• Dish Network Virginia Child Molestation Case--Every Parent's Nightmare

  Ben Glass | July 20, 2009 6:57 AM | 1 CommentNorthern Virginia, VA

  Every parent's nightmare. You call the cable or satellite installer and you let them into your house. You don't know it but the installer is a convicted child molester. Easy to check that out these...

• Fairfax, VA fraud: "you owe the police $7,500 for false alarms from your burglar alarm.

  Ben Glass | December 14, 2008 1:07 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A woman at reported getting a call with this message by a bill collector. The bill collector told her that they were collecting an overdue debt owed the Fairfax police because of false alarms from...

• Verdict Against Remicade Manufacturer

  Ben Glass | December 15, 2006 8:41 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  In the world of drug litigation, a jury in Texas ruled that Centocor Inc. negligently and fraudulently failed to warn doctors and consumers about potential side effects of Remicade and must pay almost 20 million dollars to a woman who claims she developed lupus as a result of using Remicade. Hamilton, et al. v. Centocor Inc., et al., No. 03-60526-4 (Texas Ct. at Law No. 4, Nueces Cty.).In a 5-1...

• Hulk Hogan Sues His Lawyers: What consumers need to know about car insurance

  Ben Glass | September 18, 2009 8:44 PM | 2 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Terry Bollea's (aka Hulk Hogan) recent lawsuit against his former lawyers at Zuckerman Spaeder, has several very important teaching points for consumers. Here's the short version of the story....

• How CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield Wastes Your Money

  Ben Glass | August 23, 2007 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  My family is insured under an individual health insurance policy with CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield here in Virginia. Every so often I get a letter from a law firm called Seidel Subrogation Associates, LLC, which demands information from me, on behalf of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield.Someone is paying to send out the letters. Probably me since I am a policy holder.CareFirst has obviously...

• Dog Bite Law in Virginia

  Ben Glass | July 18, 2006 9:27 PM | 1 CommentNorthern Virginia, VA

  What happens if you are bitten or attacked by a dog and suffer injury in Virginia? The answer may depend on what county you live in.The general law in Virginia is that a dog owner owes no duty to another absent knowledge of the propensity of the dog to attack or bite. This is known as the "common law" duty of a dog owner. We call it "every dog gets one free bite."However, if your county has...

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  Ben Glass | March 31, 2006 1:14 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  There is an interesting case brewing here in Fairfax County. I represent the former manager of a dental office who filed a complaint with the board of dentistry here in Virginia. Now she and others she worked with have been sued by the dentist, Farid A. Zurmati, DDS, owner of Kingstowne Family and Cosmetic Dentistry.The dentist alleges that a former office manager "made numerous allegations...

• Supreme Court: Innkeeper Liable For Guests' Injuries

  Ben Glass | March 09, 2006 9:13 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The owner and operator of a Holiday Inn Express in Roanoke, Virginia, claimed that it could not be liable for injuries sustained by a guest when that guest was robbed and injured in its parking lot. The guest was shot and his infant daughter, who was still in the family car, was abducted. The trial court had dismissed the case, finding that a Virginia hotel does not owe duty to a guest to...