Archive for June, 2008
Read original… A 22-year-old South Ozone Park man is officially the first person in New York State to be indicted under the state’s “sex trafficking” statute since its enactment last year. Woodley Gaston, of 118-08 Rockaway Boulevard, is charged with using intimidation and threats of murder to force a 16-year-old girl to perform […]
June 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Last year, abetted by ”experts” who made the disingenuous claim that we had to choose between ”the kids” and the health insurance companies, the Dems tried to use SCHIP expansion as a pretext for killing MA. When their SCHIP scam failed, they floundered around for a while but eventually came up with their […]
June 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
The time has finally arrived. I am looking for a junior attorney to work with me and assist me with my growing workload. I am looking for someone who is interested in working flexi-time to start. My thinking at the moment is to set a minimum budget for my new genius and put in […]
June 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Open Letter #03 on 9/11 to the Attorney General of the USA Michael B. Mukasey Posted in 911 cell phone calls not possible A. Kee Dewdney barbara olsen’s call to ted did not connect David Ray Griffin Michael B. Mukasey physics911.org us attorney general us department of justice Stephen M. St. John’s blog Login […]
June 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Oh man this teenager has a set of tits that could literally stop traffic. Fortunately for our insurance rates she doesn’t walk down the street naked (just the nude beaches). This hot little young girl with the wet pussy is from Young And Busty. The girls there have to be not only fresh […]
June 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Learners drive a poor bargain at the insurers Irish Independent, Ireland - 1 hour ago If you made a big car insurance claim in the last five years or have a court conviction for drink or dangerous driving, most insurers will refuse to take …
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June 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Taxpayers to foot $300000 VicRoads fleet damage bill NEWS.com.au, Australia - 2 hours ago … pocket and demerit points go on their driving record.” Ms Jaquinot said all fleet vehicles were covered by comprehensive car insurance paid for by VicRoads.
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June 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The national food safety law firm of Pritzker | Ruohonen & Associates has been retained to represent 20 year-old Zachary Everhart from Pickerington, Ohio in connection with injuries he received as a result of consuming Kroger hamburger contaminated with the dangerous foodborne pathogen, E. coli O157:H7. Everhart’s illness was confirmed […]
June 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Farmers Life Insurance Company Number 1 in California Life … Insurance News Net (press release), PA - 3 hours ago “When Californians think of Farmers, they naturally think of Auto insurance because Farmers is the state’s largest property and casualty company. …
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June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
‘Comprehensive’ car insurance policies no longer deliver Fair Investment Company, UK - 9 hours ago Comprehensive car insurance used to have the meaning that everything, or at least a lot of potential dangers motorists might encounter, would be covered …
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June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Brian Schwartz at PatientPower has a nice post on unintended consequences of insurance laws such as guaranteed issue and community rating. Who’d have thought — government regulations of the free market leading to the exact opposite of the desired effect?
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June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Over a year ago, I wrote about how we were going to get my lovely wife’s engagement ring appraised and insured that weekend. Well… ha ha, as all things are, it took a little longer than anticipated but we finally got it appraised in May and insured last week (yeah yeah, over a year […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Pritzker | Ruohonen, a leading E. coli litigation law firm, is monitoring the E. coli outbreak in Michigan and Ohio linked to ground beef, at least some of which was purchased at Kroger stores. People sickened in the outbreak reported purchasing ground beef at Kroger stores. Morever, according to an Ohio Department […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
New Virginia Law Gives Car Insurance Limits Information … InjuryBoard.com, FL - 2 hours ago As a personal injury lawyer practicing throughout Hampton Roads, Virginia in the area of automobile accident law, I make sure to stay informed about any new … New Virginia Law […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Margaret Claire Reed was born on August 8, 2006 with what is known as VACTERL Association. It is a grouping of birth defects (V = vertebral A = anal C = cardiac T = tracheal fistula E = esophogeal attresia R = renal (kidney) L = limb.). She’s been through several surgeries in her short […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Information from the CDC regarding the investigation of the Ohio and Michigan E. coli outbreak associated with ground beef, including ground beef sold at Kroger grocery store: State departments of health and agriculture in Michigan and Ohio, CDC, and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
We are definitely into the 2008 summer reading season now and so I am going to feature some great summer reading materials over the next few weeks–all in the law practice arena. I can almost hear some of you chuckling now. Reading about law practice ideas in your summer recreation time probably […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
I’ve presented quite a bit of Jacob Hacker’s work here, so it’s only fair that I also present intelligent responses to it. Justin Wolfers has the details, and I added a few comments at the end: Is Income Volatility Really Rising? For Whom?, by Justin Wolfers: Jacob Hacker’s Great Risk […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Kroger Ground Beef Recall Today, in response to the E. coli outbreak linked to Kroger ground beef, Kroger recalled ground beef sold at Kroger® Co. Stores in Michigan and Ohio. The products subject to the Kroger beef recall include all varieties and weights of ground beef products bearing a Kroger label sold between May […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Cost of dropping auto insurance to increase WRAL.com, NC - 2 hours ago Raleigh, NC — Penalties charged to vehicle owners who repeatedly drop liability insurance coverage will increase July 1, officials said Wednesday. …
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June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
The economy is not doing so good. The housing market issue hasn’t hit bottom yet. The people are afraid to spend because of these unknowns. I don’t blame them - I am doing the same as well. It’s not certain what tomorrow will bring and due to that reason, people are starting to re-assess […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
This is a guest post series by Brian Poncelet who is an independent certified financial planner (CFP) working in the financial services industry since 1994. Along with insurance, Brian Poncelet focuses on mortgage and retirement planning. Everyone likes to talk about rates of return, but as my dad always said “your health is […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Healthcare today is caught in a difficult squeeze — health costs continue to rise even as our economy slows and contracts. That’s why you need a good health plan, such as california group health insurance. In difficult economic times, there are plenty of expenditures we make that we can re-evaluate and cut back […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Retire Early Filed under: Advice, Anything Goes, Finance, Health, Insurance How does your career treat you? Do they offer a whole slew of benefits and retirement options galore, or do they avoid anything worthwhile? If you haven’t already noticed, some companies go all out when it comes to taking care of their […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Arbella Insurance expands business to two new states Insurance Business Review - 28 minutes ago By Staff Writer Arbella, a seller of personal auto insurance, will begin selling commercial auto, property, liability, workers compensation and other …
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June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
If the Sunset Commission isn’t going to do more than just talk about the problems of out of control insurance rates with the Texas Department of Insurance, then maybe is it time to sunset it, along with the TDI, and the Texas Ethics Commission, and the Texas Residential Commission. The Sunset Commission […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
More information keeps on piling up as investigators try to get to the bottom of the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Michigan and Ohio. Although not as widespread as the Salmonella outbreak in tomatoes affecting the entire country, the residents of Michigan and Ohio have cause to worry about ground beef purchased from […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
FROM Staff reports The Argus Article Created: 06/25/2008 05:32:21 PM PDT FREMONT — A local TV news van pulled up this week outside the building where Gopalan Nair runs his immigration law firm, and a cameraman came out to videotape the entrance. The static image of a […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
According to the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH), more than half of the 15 people sickened in the current Michigan E. coli outbreak reported buying and eating ground beef from Kroger grocery stores. Also,a raw ground beef sample provided by an Ohio E. coli O157:H7 case is linked by genetic fingerprinting to the […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
‘Automatic Lit Cigarette Dispenser Tops List of Most Outrageous … SunHerald.com, MS - 4 hours ago Hagerty Insurance, the nation’s leading provider of collector car insurance, researched dozens of these unheard of — and often eccentric — inventions to …
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June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Newark guidance counselor charged in second car insurance scheme The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 2 hours ago by Brian T. Murray/The Star-Ledger A Newark guidance counselor, already facing charges he helped a Red Bank principal torch his car in an insurance scheme, …
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June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
My friend and fellow defense lawyer, Mark Bennett was interviewed by reporter, Mary Flood, from the Houston Chronicle. Mark’s interview is here and worth reading. Mark also looks pretty good standing on his front porch either leaving for, or coming from, the courthouse.
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June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Does anybody need a reminder that the credit crisis is hurting our economies? Case in point: German car-industry supplier Schenk Plastic Solutions. Schenk is a small but basically healthy company that relies on Daimler for 60 percent of sales. They have a patented new product named SkinForm which was developed for premium car interiors. It’s […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Where I live, using a bike to go at work could be easy, cheap, green, but isn’t an alternative because there are no bicycle lanes, and even automated public…
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June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Back in 2005, the Appellate Division, Third Department in Elacqua v. Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers held that an insurer has a duty to inform its insured that he or she has the right to independent counsel paid for by the insurer where a matter concerns some covered causes of action and some that are not. The […]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
For the first time in history, the federal courts are charged with deciding whether or not congressional subpoenas of the executive branch shall be enforced. Think about that for a moment - for the first time in the history of our country, a presidential administration has been so obstinate and insistent that the rules don’t […]
June 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Oracle Corp. [ORCL] on Monday announced plans to buy Skywire Software, a provider of document management software for the insurance industry, which it said will build on its pending purchase…
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June 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
I’ve been meaning cover the issue of online car insurance and specifically write a Swiftcover review for a while now as I’ve spoken to people who dismiss the notion of using the Internet for obtaining car insurance quotes and entirely renewing their car insurance policy online. I’ve been using online car insurance companies […]
June 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
For those of you who do not take any type of meds, this will seem possibly trivial but for those of us who are on medications 24/7/365 it is a pain in the posterior and other places too. This has been a running problem for me for years. You go to the doctor, he/she […]
June 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
The Situationist has examined various implications that social psychology and related fields for law and legal theory. But what about for the practice of law? Martin Seligman, former American Psychological Association president and one of the leaders of the new field of Positive Psychology, examines the relationship between psychology and the practice of […]
June 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments