http://lawsuit-settlement-funding.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:03:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Insurance companies hate being named in an uninsured motorist case. Why? Because unlike most car accident trials, if the jury knows an insurance company is paying the damages, jurors become less concerned that the defendant is footing the bill themselves. Jurors intuitively expect there is insurance available ... http://lawsuit-settlement-funding.com/lawsuit-funding/personal-injury/can-insurance-defendants-lay-low-at-trial/ I summarized two new Court of Appeals of Maryland opinions elsewhere last week: Benway v. Maryland Port Authority and Darby v. Marley Cooling . Benway deals with a procedural issue with respect to when a party can file a summary judgment motion. Darby deals with an interesting ... http://lawsuit-settlement-funding.com/lawsuit-funding/personal-injury/new-court-of-appeals-of-maryland-opinions/ Morris Dees, the co-founder and lawyer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, was honored at the Union League Club of Chicago by the Decalogue Society of Lawyers. The event held on March 2, 2010 at the Union League Club of Chicago was attended by Cook County judges, elected officials ... http://lawsuit-settlement-funding.com/lawsuit-funding/personal-injury/fighting-hate-since-1970-morris-dees-is-honored-by-chicago%e2%80%99s-decalogue-society-of-lawyers/ An Illinois prescription drug case that originally had been dismissed due to issues of federal preemption, has been reinstated by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. This case, Mason v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a Glaxo SmithKline, No. 08-2265, may be the first decision that addresses preemption with ... http://lawsuit-settlement-funding.com/lawsuit-funding/personal-injury/wyeth-v-levine-used-to-reverse-pre-emption-of-chicago-pharmaceutical-litigation-case-against-glaxo-smith-kline-gsk/ The Maryland Court of Special Appeals addressed last week an issue that our personal injury clients in malpractice and accident cases have occasionally expressed: is my settlement or verdict my money or marital money I have to share with my spouse? In Murray v. Murray, the court was ... http://lawsuit-settlement-funding.com/lawsuit-funding/personal-injury/personal-injury-settlements-in-maryland-what-portion-is-marital-property/ While crossing a Chicago west side intersection with her sister, an 18-year-old woman was struck by a bus. The woman’s estate filed suit against the bus driver and the private bus company for the wrongful death of the decedent. In any wrongful death case certain criteria must ... http://lawsuit-settlement-funding.com/lawsuit-funding/personal-injury/fatal-chicago-bus-accident-reaches-settlement-in-wrongful-death-case-3/ While crossing a Chicago west side intersection with her sister, an 18-year-old woman was struck by a bus. The woman’s estate filed suit against the bus driver and the private bus company for the wrongful death of the decedent. It is the driver of any vehicle to exercise ... http://lawsuit-settlement-funding.com/lawsuit-funding/personal-injury/fatal-chicago-bus-accident-reaches-settlement-in-wrongful-death-case-2/ While crossing a Chicago west side intersection with her sister, an 18-year-old woman was struck by a bus. The woman’s estate filed suit against the bus driver and the private bus company for the wrongful death of the decedent. In any wrongful death case certain criteria must be ... http://lawsuit-settlement-funding.com/lawsuit-funding/personal-injury/fatal-chicago-bus-accident-reaches-settlement-in-wrongful-death-case/ Illinois construction companies have an obligation to provide a safe work environment for their employees and do what they can to avoid Illinois construction site accidents. Because of this duty on the part of construction companies, Illinois construction workers can generally assume that the equipment and materials at a ... http://lawsuit-settlement-funding.com/lawsuit-funding/personal-injury/illinois-chemical-accident-at-construction-site-leads-to-workers-death-illinois-jury-finds-for-workers-estate/ The Union League Club of Chicago’s Civic & Arts Foundation hosted the 2010 jazz improvisation competition at Buddy Guy's Legends on February 17, 2010. From high school kids to semi-professionals beginning to make a splash on the Chicago jazz scene, the breadth of talent exhibited at Buddy Guy's ... http://lawsuit-settlement-funding.com/lawsuit-funding/personal-injury/union-league-club-of-chicagos-civic-arts-foundation-hosts-2010-jazz-competition-at-buddy-guys-legends-2/