- Ben Glass | July 30, 2007 2:12 PM |
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MiscellaneousThere is an interesting article in Sunday's Washington Post. It seems that the father of an eight-year-old Little League or was umpiring game, most probably as a volunteer, when a situation occurred that caused him to want to go look up the official rules in the Little League rulebook. He checked the Little League website first with no success. To make a long story very short what he found...
- Ben Glass | July 22, 2007 10:13 AM |
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MiscellaneousA Virginia Federal Judge in Norfolk has ruled that a Chinese artificial Christmas tree manufacturer can be sued in Virginia, based on its selling $1.1 billion in artificial Christmas trees and its maintaining a web site that is accessible in Virginia.The fiber optic Christmas tree had allegedly caught on fire and caused damage.The case is Jones v. Boto Co. Ltd and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. For more...
- Ben Glass | July 19, 2007 8:49 AM |
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MiscellaneousFor years the insurance industry and big business has cornered the market on the 'tort reform" discussion. They have spent millions and millions of dollars to poison the minds of the American jurors. This new tort reform video, recently produced (and, frankly, not yet finished) tells the other side of the story. In Virginia we are starting to see an increase in personal injury verdicts, after...
- Ben Glass | July 19, 2007 7:13 AM |
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MiscellaneousBen Glass was recently interviewed for TV about his controversial books, Five Deadly Sins that Can Wreck Your Virginia Accident Case and The Truth About Lawyer Advertising.When someone has been involved in a Virginia car accident, there are usually two big questions that they have right away:(1) the insurance adjuster is bugging me, what do I do? Do I have to sign their forms?(2) How do I find...
- Ben Glass | July 19, 2007 7:03 AM |
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MiscellaneousNew video and book exposes the truth about group long term disability insurance policies.In his book, "Robbery Without a Gun", long term disability insurance attorney Ben Glass reveals the mistakes that claimants and their doctors make in a disability claim that can virtually guarantee that the claim will be denied by the insurance company. Here's a short video where Ben explains how most group...
- Ben Glass | July 19, 2007 6:32 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAccording to the Virginia State police there were no traffic deaths in Northern Virginia over the July 4 holiday. From July 3 through July 8, 13 people did lose their lives in Virginia traffic accidents but none were from our local area.Last year,twenty-two people died in traffic crashes during the four-days surrounding Independence Day. Amazingly, nine of the 13 deaths this year involved...
- Ben Glass | July 15, 2007 11:29 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAccording to Virginia State Poilice, Marvin Antonio Maldonado's car left the ground on Walmsley Boulevard before crashing and killing its passengers. Police are pressing reckless driving charges against Maldonado.The deceased are Ediverto Delacruz Ramirez, 21, and Carmen Delacruz Gonzales, 18, both of Chesterfield County; and Victor Garcia Morales, 23, of Gainesville, Ga. They were pronounced...
- Ben Glass | July 14, 2007 11:15 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAccording to published reports, Estel Henderson was seriously injured Friday when the driver of an SUV cut across several lanes after missing her turn. The Washington Post is reporting that a 28 year old driver from California cause the accident on Route 7 and Belmont Ridge Road. Motorcyclists are often difficult to see. Of course, missing your turn and crossing four lanes of traffice (as...
- Ben Glass | July 13, 2007 10:19 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe tragic death of a 14-year-old Fairfax County girl on Wednesday in a car accident in which her sister was the driver raises a question that is often asked by families: can a recovery be made in the case for the family's loss even though it was a family member who apparently was at fault in the accident?The Washington Post reported that Olivia Aull was killed on Jermantown Road after the car...
- Ben Glass | July 12, 2007 6:46 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe Washington Post is reporting this morning that two of the most seriously injured victims of the Vienna, Virginia fireworks horror are on the path to recovery. We hope that young Max Hollis and his mother, Kathryn, continue to recover. Each year thousands of people are injured from fireworks on and around July 4. While most injuries do not occur at major fireworks displays, the folks who do...
- Ben Glass | July 10, 2007 6:50 AM |
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MiscellaneousA study released in early July by the Virginia Department of Transportation shows that the red light cameras that were supposed to increase driver accountability have actually increased car accidents. The statistics varied from county to county, but overall accidents have actually increased rear-end crashes by as much as 31 to 54 percent.Red light cameras have been in place in Virginia since...
- Ben Glass | July 08, 2007 5:31 PM |
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MiscellaneousDo you remember the stock market scam of 18 months ago where people would deliberately call and leave messages on voice mails which sounded like the messages were being left for someone else? The person listening to their voicemail were led to believe that certain stocks were going to skyrocket but they believe that the message had been mistakenly left on their voicemail.These people would then...
- Ben Glass | July 08, 2007 12:34 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe Federal judicial Center, the research and education agency of the federal court system, surveyed its judges in 2006 on the issue of "frivolous lawsuits." Two hundred seventy eight federal judges responded and 70% declared that groundless litigation is either a "small problem" or a "very small problem". 15% of the judges surveyed said that frivolous litigation was no problem at all.For...
- Ben Glass | July 07, 2007 6:29 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAccording to the national Highway traffic safety administration in 2005 the average age of motorcycle riders killed in accidents has risen in the past 10 years. While riders 50 years and older accounted for the steepest climb in motorcycle fatalities in 2005 there have been large increases in crash deaths of riders age 40 and older. The predictions for 2006 are that deaths from motorcycle...
- Ben Glass | July 06, 2007 9:37 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIn May a Fairfax County jury returned a verdict of $2 million to a woman who was injured after two teenagers driving separate vehicles at a high rate of speed struck her on the Fairfax County Parkway. The defendants admitted liability but contested the amount of damages. The medical bills in the case exceeded $100,000 and the plaintiff had lost wages in excess of $1 million.Since the accident...
- Ben Glass | July 06, 2007 6:36 PM |
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MiscellaneousAccording to published reports a trucking company and its insurers have paid $12 million in settlement to a catastrophically injured man. The plaintiff, Jerome Stewart, was left a quadriplegic after the accident with a garbage truck owned by Potomac disposal services of Virginia.The medical bills alone exceeded $1 million as Stewart suffered injuries ranging from a spinal cord injury at C5-Sea...
- Ben Glass | July 06, 2007 5:58 AM |
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MiscellaneousAccording to various news reports, the fireworks that shot into a crowd in Vienna, Virginia were made by the same company whose fireworks malfunctioned elsewhere on July 4. The fireworks displays at at least six shows operated by Pyrotechnics of Ronks, Pa. allegedly malfunctioned. So far it appears that the only malfunctions causing injuries were at the Vienna Elementary School show.Two people...
- Ben Glass | July 05, 2007 8:32 AM |
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MiscellaneousAt least nine people were injured last night at Vienna elementary school in Vienna Virginia when fireworks at a public fireworks display misfired and were shot into the crowd. According to news reports this morning several of the injuries are serious and one man has been transported to the Washington Hospital Center's burn unit.Unfortunately, fireworks are a major cause of injury in the United...
- Ben Glass | July 04, 2007 8:15 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe fact that the Food and Drug Administration approved certain warnings to be placed in Merck's pain drug Vioxx does not immunize the company from lawsuits for "failure to warn." This is the ruling of Federal Judge Eldon Fallon, sitting in New Orleans. Drug companies and other product manufacturers typically try to hide behind the fact that "the government approved our warning, so you can't sue...