Miscellaneous

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Josh Hancock lawsuit against bar would not fly in Virginia

  Ben Glass | May 29, 2007 5:50 PM | 6 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Apparently the father of Josh Hancock, the baseball player who died recently while driving drunk (and not wearing a seatbelt and talking on the cell phone) has filed suit against a number of entities, including the driver of the car that had stalled on the road, the pickup truck that had stopped to assist that car and the bar where Hancock spent several hours allegedly drinking. I don't know...

• Hazard from Texting While Driving

  Ben Glass | May 24, 2009 8:12 AM | 2 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  According to a recent study conducted by researchers at Eastern Virginia Medical School and Children’s Hospital of the Kings’ Daughters in Norfolk, driving while text messaging or...

• Prudential Hit for Denying Disability Benefits

  Ben Glass | March 12, 2007 3:12 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A jury ordered Prudential Insurance Co. to pay $15.5 million to an woman who was denied her disability benefits. The woman applied for benefits because she suffers from chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, lupus, and an immune system disorder.One thing that immediately comes to mind is that this wasn't her employer's group disability policy. Those policies are virtually worthless (as explained in my...

• "No" to Mandatory Legal Malpractice Insurance

  Ben Glass | October 31, 2007 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The Virginia State Bar is again considering the issue of forcing lawyers to buy malpractice insurance. Complete waste of time.Their own statistics show that 90% of lawyers who deal with the public have malpractice insurance.I think that lawyers should carry malpractice insurance but its not the business of the bar to force any business owner to carry insurance any more than it could force the...

• Death From Falling Soccer Goal

  Ben Glass | May 11, 2007 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  As a life long soccer player and soccer referee for over 30 years, this story saddens me deeply.Apparently another child has died from injuries sustained when a soccer goal tipped over. The death of a 10 year old Winchester, Virginia soccer player happened just a couple of days ago.The consumer product safety commission has long warned of the danger of soccer goals tipping over, yet even today...

• Attorney Stephen Thomas Conrad

  Ben Glass | December 12, 2007 10:52 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  In the last week, our office received several phone calls and emails from clients of this attorney who has been recently arrested. We investigated and found that according to the Virginia State Bar website, his license to practice law was recently suspended.The Virginia State Bar has a client protection fund and information about making a claim under the fund is here. Let me say that this is all...