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Insurance….not fun to think about, but necessary.

I’ve had on many occasions the very unpleasant task of sitting across from a client and telling them that the person who injured them didn’t have enough to cover their losses or that they don’t have enough coverage to handle … Continue reading

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It was the other guy’s fault !….well, except for

No one ever wants to think that they were at fault for their own accident, even a little bit. But it sometimes happens that accidents have more than one cause.  An accident is only the last event in a chain of … Continue reading

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Witnesses

“Why don’t they just tell the truth?” I hear that a lot when I tell clients that much depends on the witnesses we and the other side can bring to the case to tell what happened. The problem is that … Continue reading

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Malcolm, the office dog

Malcolm just happened one afternoon. My wife and my then 10 year old grandson went to the Humane Society “just to look”. In my years as a volunteer with that organization, I learned what the almost-always outcome of that scenario … Continue reading

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Mediation…What is it?

We used to try a lot of cases “back in the day”, but for about the last 15 years or so, the courts in Kentucky have been encouraging, and  often ordering, cases to mediation.  That means that once a case … Continue reading

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What’s my case worth?

It sounds cold to talk about “valuing” a person’s injury in monetary terms, but the reality is that no court or jury can make the accident not have happened  or make any change in the injury that has occurred.  A … Continue reading

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“if you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else”

I’m a motorcyclist, the kind who believes that bikes are best enjoyed when heeled over in a turn. To get the best line through a turn, you look at it “backwards”, picking the place on the road where you want … Continue reading

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“Lawyer says he’s too busy to take my case”

About two or three times per month I get a call from someone saying that they’ve got a great case but all the lawyers they’ve called are too busy to take it. This one particularly rubs me the wrong way. … Continue reading

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