Stepan Settles Claims and Revises Earnings Estimate.
NORTHFIELD, Ill., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stepan Company today announced that it has reached a settlement of personal injury claims asserted by 19 plaintiffs relating to a site in Wilmington, Massachusetts, which Stepan sold 26 years ago. Stepan will take a $3.0 million pretax charge ($2.3 million after tax)...

My full-color illustrated reports result in bigger settlements for my attorney-clients.
For my attorney-clients who handle personal injury cases, I provide a special illustrated CLNC[R] report pinpointing specific areas that are significant to the case. For example, if the attorney's client suffered a severe head injury as a result of an automobile accident, I include a full-color diagram of the...

What's your duty under Himmel? You know you have a duty to report other lawyers to the ARDC when they ... when they what? What kind of misconduct should be reported? What kind must be? What if you make the wrong call?
Picture yourself in this situation: You, who have an unblemished reputation as a lawyer, take on a client who asks you to collect the proceeds of a personal injury settlement from her former attorney, who's failed to pay it for two years. You investigate, determine that the...

Recovery of medical expenses in Texas.
In health care liability claims, and in most personal injury claims for that matter, medical expenses related to the care and treatment of the injury alleged by the claimant often constitute a significant portion of the damages that might be recovered at trial. For this reason, it is important...

Personal Injury Insurance Fraud: The Process of Detection A Primer for Insurance and Legal Professionals.
By Joseph Lichtor, M.D. Fraud is commonly defined as deliberate deception for unfair or unlawful personal gain. Patients, physicians and other medical providers and attorney engage in fraud. Health care fraud is a major growth industry that costs millions annually, the cost of which is...

Law offices of M. David Shapiro, P.A.: providing personal attention to personal injury claims. (Legal Profile: Advertising Feature).
When clients enter the law offices of M. David Shapiro, PA., they feel as though they're stepping back in time. Located in the historic Halton house, the law firm is filled with artifacts from the early 1900s, when the building was the home of Dr. Joseph Halton and a...

South Africa: gone with the wind; Edward D. Fagan, the flamboyant American personal injury lawyer, who made international headlines with both the Holocaust and apartheid claims cases, has gone to ground, leaving his South African clients in a huge lurch and damaging their cases in the process. Terry Bell reports.
Edward D. Fagan has disappeared from sight, accused by his former South African colleagues of being "a destructive opportunist" and dumped by his erstwhile American partners. Now there is a $3.2m malpractice judgement against him issued by the Manhattan Supreme Court in New York. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Shapiro, Goldman & Babboni, P.A.: specializing in personal injury and wrongful death claims. (Advertising Feature: Legal Profile).
When clients enter the law offices of Shapiro, Goldman & Babboni, they feel as though they're stepping back in time. Located in the historic Halton house, the law firm is filled with artifacts from the early 1900s when the building was the home of Dr. Joseph Halton and a...

Replicating and perpetuating inequalities in personal injury claims through female-specific contingencies.
The author challenges the application of the principle of restitutio in integrum in awarding tort damages to individuals from historically marginalized groups, as it often results in undercompensation and unfairness between claimants who sustain similar injuries in similar circumstances. The current system works to the detriment of claimants from...

Pulitzer wins personal injury case. (Media/Law).
The legal victories keep rolling in for Pulitzer Publishing Company. The latest comes in a lawsuit filed by Seung Lee, one of the joggers who was hit by a St. Louis Post-Dispatch delivery truck on Hanley Road in April 1999. Lee was severely injured and her friend,...