Miscellaneous

• 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...

• Malfunctioning Fireworks Traced Back to One Manufacturer?

  Ben Glass | July 06, 2007 5:58 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  According 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...

• Vienna Virginia Fireworks Injury Horror

  Ben Glass | July 05, 2007 8:32 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  At 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...

• Merck Dealt Major Blow in Vioxx Case

  Ben Glass | July 04, 2007 8:15 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The 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...