Miscellaneous

• 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...

• Virginia Department of Transportation Report Shows Red Light Cameras Increase Accidents

  Ben Glass | July 10, 2007 6:50 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A 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...

• Crime victims or codefendants?

  Ben Glass | July 08, 2007 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Do 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...

• Frivolous lawsuits

  Ben Glass | July 08, 2007 12:34 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The 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...

• $12 million settlement for truck accident victim

  Ben Glass | July 06, 2007 6:36 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  According 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...