All We Are Is Our Word

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All we are is our word.
If we lived our entire life, interacted with no one and then died, what is left of us? Other than some carbon matter, nothing. There’s no proof that we existed as a sentient being. However, most of us don’t live in isolation, we live in societies and communities and nations and countries.What separates us from other beings is the way in which we communicate. Yes, other highly developed animal communities communicate in their species-specific ways, but we humans have sophisticated ways to express ourselves, through Read More +

Do You Have Enough Car Insurance? Don’t Find Out After The Crash.

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Do You Have Enough Car Insurance? Don’t Find Out After The Crash.
When I sign up a new client injured from a car crash, one of the first questions I ask is: “Tell me about your own car insurance coverage…..” I’m never surprised when a client responds: “I’m fully covered.” The problem is this is a fairly meaningless statement. Do you know about your car insurance coverage? It’s really important and you should. So, let’s break it down in easy language. Insurance in Florida is complicated and really boring, so this will be a challenge to make Read More +

Emergency Rooms – The New Medical Cash Cows

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Emergency Rooms – The New Medical Cash Cows
Every wonder why all these new “Emergency Rooms” are popping up in various locations around town? They’re affiliated with local hospitals but are built at various other locations – detached from their parent hospital. The reason? Emergency rooms appear to become the new profit centers for hospitals. They can generate an enormous amount of revenue in a relatively short amount of time. Not that long ago clients who were checked out after a car crash at the E.R. could expect a bill in the range Read More +

Personal Injury and Bankruptcy

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PERSONAL INJURY AND BANKRUPTCY
When a debtor files bankruptcy, any potential or actual personal injury claim must be disclosed in the bankruptcy schedules.  A personal injury claim is any claim against a person, business, insurance company, or other parties, arising from the personal injury of the plaintiff, or person bringing the claim.  Such claims may arise from an automobile accident, a work related accident, slip and fall, and other forms of injury to the person bringing the claim. Usually, the debtor in bankruptcy can keep the personal injury attorney Read More +

My Catastrophic Case

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My Catastrophic Case
Imagine driving an 18 wheeler pulling a tankful of pool chemicals on I-75 southbound to Miami. It’s 3 a.m. because you hate driving in daytime traffic, and if you timed it right, you’ll arrive in Miami at dawn. Of course, it’s dark except for the street lights disbursed along the highway – and traffic is very light given the hour. As you approach a lane merging onto 75 near Ft. Myers, you see the vague outline of……..is that a mini-van without its lights on? In Read More +

To Shred or Not to Shred…..*

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Many businesses and even households are going paperless by storing documents on CDs or DVDs. What to do with the old paperwork? The questions arises, do I have to shred everything? Some businesses have so much paperwork that they have to hire these mobile shredding trucks to come out and just mulch it all up en masse rather than stand there feeding each piece of paper into the loud shredder which inevitably jams on the 6th inserted document. Is this really necessary? Actually, the reason Read More +