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Mitigating Medical Exposure
TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD! Planning for Post-Retirement Medical Expenses with 401(h) Plans
TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD! Planning for Post-Retirement Medical Expenses With 401(h) Plans
NOWOTNY KNOWS SQUAT! Part IV Using Post-Retirement Medical Plans to Raise AUM and Sell Life Insurance
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THE ACCIDENTAL ENTREPRENEUR PART V video
THE ACCIDENTAL ENTREPRENEUR PART V Podcast
Podcast: Health Reimbursement Arrangements
What is Subrogation and How Does it Affect Settlement Amounts?
What Money Damages Are Available In A Personal Injury Claim?
In Audish v. Macias (2024) 102 Cal.App.5th 740, the California Court of Appeal decided a key issue concerning the admissibility of a plaintiff’s future Medicare eligibility in calculating damages for future medical expense...more
Dura-Bond Coating, Inc. v. Ryan (WCAB); No. 1137 C.D. 2023, Filed November 18, 2024; Judge Covey - The claimant suffered amputations of both lower extremities. A workers’ compensation judge granted a Claim Petition and...more
1. The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed an Industrial Accident Board decision that concluded that a COVID-19 workplace exposure at a poultry processing plant did not qualify as a compensable occupational disease. Fowler v....more
1. As the employer/carrier was not able to overcome presumption, a firefighter’s COVID-19, requiring heart transplant, was found to be work-related. Seminole County, Florida and Johns Eastern Company, Inc. v. Chad Braden,...more
Earlier this year, the Fourth District Court of Appeal decided Audish v. Macias. This groundbreaking case builds upon the foundation started in Howell v. Hamilton Meats & Provision, Inc. by clarifying the application of the...more
If you have used Depo-Provera, you may have heard recent reports suggesting a potential link between this birth control injection and an increased risk of brain tumors known as meningiomas. It is important to remember that...more
What is Depo-Provera? Depo-Provera is an injectable form of birth control manufactured by Pfizer that contains a synthetic hormone, medroxyprogesterone acetate, which prevents pregnancy by stopping ovulation, thickening...more
Garced v. United Cerebral Palsy of Phila., 307 A.2d 103 (Pa. Super. 2023) - This matter involved a plaintiff’s claim that he developed reactive airway disease syndrome (RADS) from exposure to the fogging disinfectant...more
When a jury’s verdict is unreasonably low, the presiding judge may increase it by awarding an additur pursuant to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.530 and Section 768.74, Florida Statutes. However, as to damages for future...more
In Berardi v. FMI Insurance Co., a panel of New Jersey’s Superior Court, Appellate Decision, affirmed a lower court’s ruling, which ordered a primary home insurer to defend its insured in a dog bite lawsuit, stemming from...more
Car accidents occur in varying degrees of severity. This is one of the reasons why there are many types of injuries that can stem from a wreck. Understanding the types of injuries that can occur, as well as how a victim’s...more
If you are injured in a car crash that isn't your fault, you expect insurance to cover your medical expenses and related costs from the crash. But you might be out of luck if you don't have sufficient UM/UIM...more
Florida is in a minority of states which employ a “no-fault” personal injury system. This results in car accident victims first having to file a claim against their own insurance before submitting a claim to a defendant’s...more
Defective products can lead to serious injuries. As in any other catastrophic injury case, the damages which the victim suffers from such an event can be substantial. The types of damages to which you may be entitled can be...more
The U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the Medicaid Act on June 6, 2022, to permit state Medicaid programs to recover costs for future medical care that has not yet been provided and may never be provided from Medicaid...more
Is an insured legally entitled to recover the incurred amount of medical expenses or a reasonable amount of medical expenses? This issue often arises in first-party bad faith cases arising from uninsured motorist (“UM”) and...more
It is a sad fact of life that people are injured in car accidents every day on Delaware roads. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently announced that the number of...more
Dogs are a huge part of American society. According to the 2021-2022 APPA National Pet Owners Survey, 69 million U.S. households have a dog as a pet, and the Insurance Research Council reported that 21% of American families...more
Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage was first enacted in Florida in 1971. PIP is also known as no-fault insurance, and it allows drivers and passengers to obtain insurance benefits for medical treatment and wage loss,...more
Generally, Florida drivers are required to carry $10,000 in personal injury protection insurance. Fla.Stat. § 627.736. After a car accident, PIP benefits are paid toward the insured’s medical expenses, regardless of fault,...more
Non-economic damages for pain and suffering are a source of constant consternation for Ohio courts because of their intangible properties and unquantifiable characteristics, which is why the subject is normally left for...more
The first two parts of this series on mass tort tips discussed the best practices for intake and how to develop an inventory of mass tort cases. Now that all that hard work has paid off, and it’s time for settlement. In any...more
The Holding - In Jimenez v. Progressive Preferred Ins. Co., 2020 WL 2037113 (D. Ariz. Apr. 28, 2020), a putative breach of contract and insurance bad faith class action arising from a MedPay claim, the Arizona District...more
Governor Reynolds signed a bill this week altering and clarifying the amount of damages a claimant may recover for medical expenses in a personal injury lawsuit. This new law remedies confusion that had arisen over time...more
People often ask me “how much car insurance do I need?” Never has this question been more important than now. Michigan drivers now face the biggest changes in auto No-Fault insurance since the No-Fault Act was enacted in...more