Miscellaneous

• 1-800 Flowers Lawsuit Update

  Ben Glass | August 13, 2007 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  MSNBC has pretty good video on this silly 1-800 Flowers lawsuit. Now he's complaining about all of the negative publicity he's gotten and the 'mental anguish" from the public feeback he's getting from his lawsuit.So let me get this straight. He cheats on his wife and buys flowers for his mistress. Then he complains when his wife finds out about the affair. Then he files a lawsuit that somehow...

• Sorry, another stupid lawsuit

  Ben Glass | August 12, 2007 5:23 AM | 3 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Seems a Houston man used 1-800 Flowers to send his love interest flowers and a card. Problem was, it wasn't his wife. So, to be careful, Leroy Greer told the flower delivery company to not send him a receipt. They didn't. But they did send a thank you card to his home later.Guess what happened next?Yes. His wife, curious, calls the flower company and gets receipt faxed over. Then she files for...

• Where You Can Find Me Tomorow

  Ben Glass | August 11, 2007 11:44 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Mid way through training for the Marine Corp Marathon, there's a terrific race this Sunday in Leesburg. Brian and I will be running, and we'll be joined by Herndon attorney Doug Landau and his better half, Melissa. Apparently we'll be hanging out with 1300 other runners at the 19th annual Leesburg 10K/20K Race along the W&OD Trail.This Fall I'll be running with Caitlin and Brian in the Marine...

• "The court sincerely regrets the unusual delay in issuing this opinion"

  Ben Glass | August 01, 2007 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The District of Columbia Court of Appeals issued an opinion this week in a case called to Viola J. Scott v. Crestar Financial Corporation. Nothing particularly esoteric or difficult about the decision. Footnote 15 of the decision however sad "the court sincerely regrets the unusual delay in issuing this opinion." You see, the case was argued over seven years before was decided.In a time...

• The idiots running Little League baseball

  Ben Glass | July 30, 2007 2:12 PM | 2 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  There 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...

• Suing Foreign Companies in Virginia

  Ben Glass | July 22, 2007 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A 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...

• New Tort Reform Video You Must See

  Ben Glass | July 19, 2007 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  For 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...

• How to Find a Virginia Personal Injury Attorney

  Ben Glass | July 19, 2007 7:13 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Ben 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...

• Long Term Disability Policies: "Robbery Without A Gun"

  Ben Glass | July 19, 2007 7:03 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  New 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...

• Seriously Injured Fireworks Victims in Vienna, Virginia On Road to Recovery

  Ben Glass | July 12, 2007 6:46 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The 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...