Lawsuit Loans And Settlement Loans Help Level The Playing Field
By Dr. Tom Rhudy – What are lawsuit loans and settlement loans? These are forms of litigation funding that allow individuals to finance their lawsuits. It’s a relatively new segment of the cash-flow industry. However, it is growing very quickly. Funding companies, if they approve the application, will advance money to a plaintiff. The amount [...]
Legal Funding an Option for Plaintiffs and Attorneys
By Josh Shores – If you are familiar with the law markets you may have heard the term legal funding. This term describes a new type of investment that is being offered to plaintiffs & attorneys within the legal industry. While many people perceive this new type of lending as money against a pending lawsuit, [...]
4 Reasons People Won’t Settle a Lawsuit
By Jeremy P Stanfords – When two parties are involved in a lawsuit, it is sometimes settled before the case is heard in court. Otherwise, one or both sides will stand firm, determined to see it through to the final verdict. In civil lawsuits, damages are awarded in dollars. If a case settles, it is [...]
Legal Funding an Option for Plaintiffs and Attorneys
By Josh Shores – Legal Funding an Option for Plaintiffs and Attorneys. This term describes a new type of investment that is being offered to plaintiffs & attorneys within the legal industry. While many people perceive this new type of lending as money against a pending lawsuit, in actuality it’s much more. Legal funding takes [...]
5 Facts About Asbestos Lawsuits – What You Should Know
By Eric Head – When you or your family has been diagnosed with mesothelioma or other asbestos related diseases, the first thing you should do is take legal action. Below is a concise list of information you should know when taking action. 1. Seek an asbestos lawyer immediately. Due to the time constraints that are [...]
Dietary Weight Loss Drugs and Medical Malpractice
By Maximilian Buddenbrock – The weight-loss industry is booming in the United States, and probably will continue to grow as the nation experiences what the Surgeon General has deemed an “obesity epidemic.” As a result, drug makers are constantly seeking to develop and market that lucrative “magic pill” that will facilitate weight loss. In fact, [...]
Class-Action Lawsuits – Can They Help You?
By Charles Essmeier – The recent withdrawals of the prescription medications Vioxx and Bextra from the marketplace due to safety concerns has class-action lawsuits in the news again. What is a class-action lawsuit? If you have been wronged, can a class-action lawsuit help you? A class-action lawsuit is one in which a single law firm [...]
Class Action Lawsuits – Individuals Against Corporations
By James Johnstone – Class action lawsuits give individuals the power to match up against corporations. Class actions can be really successful if there are a large group of class members who have all sustained a relatively small loss sustained as a result of corporate criminality. The legal costs for individual members to file separately [...]
Siding Class Action
By John Pawlak – Before the ’80s, the Masonite Corporation was a leading manufacturer of high-quality hardboard siding. Cost reduction efforts during the 1980s and 1990s resulted in the company producing an inferior product that buckled, rotted, softened, blistered, and/or swelled after routine exposure to moisture. Many buildings constructed during this time used Masonite’s defective [...]
