What is a medical lien?
A medical lien is a claim by a healthcare provider for an interest in your personal injury settlement or award. This includes hospitals, physicians’ offices, private insurance healthcare providers, and governmental insurance healthcare providers (Medicare and Medicaid). We ...
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Chernobyl in the Oilfield
Audiences have been captivated by HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries featuring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, and Emily Watson. The Chernobyl miniseries is a gritty dramatization of the worst nuclear disaster in world history. This catastrophic event occurred on April 26, 1986, when a power surge during ...
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Fracking Chemicals Linked to Immune System Deficiencies
A study published in Toxicological Sciences found disturbing results for expecting mothers living near fracking wells. Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, refers to the use of pressurized water and nearly 1,000 proprietary compounds to break open layers of shale beneath the earth’s surface, ...
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HOW DO YOU BENEFIT FROM A FAIR TORT SYSTEM?
American civil courts hold parties and their insurers responsible for the torts, wrongful or negligent acts, which they commit. How do you benefit from a fair tort system? Here are three ways:
1. YOU ARE SAFER. A fair tort system holds negligent parties responsible and deters future negligence. ...
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North Tonawanda Residents’ Homes Impacted by Nearby Landfill
Neighbors near the Niagara Sanitation Landfill have said enough is enough. Residents in North Tonawanda unknowingly lived near a significant amount of toxic waste that was removed from the Love Canal dumpsite in the late 1960s and disposed of in their community. Many neighborhood children played on ...
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Mike Stag selected for City Business 2017 Leadership in Law
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ConocoPhillips to pay $39 million for MTBE case
ConocoPhillips Co. will pay $39 million to settle its part of a long-running lawsuit by New Jersey for environmental damages from groundwater contamination from MTBE.
Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is a gasoline additive used as an oxygenate and to raise the octane number. It has polluted ...
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Dow Chemical Loses Key Ruling Related to Statute of Limitations in Dioxin Case
Too often environmental contamination is hidden from those who are most impacted. In many states, the judicial system protects those people by finding that impacted people can bring lawsuits within a certain time from when they knew or should have known of the contamination. Property owners in ...
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AT&T Strong-arms Americans with Forced Arbitration
Emboldened by the AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion ruling, AT&T employed its new found immunity from class-action lawsuits to put consumers’ wallets in a tight spot. The 2011 Supreme Court case ruling allowed class action suits to be dismissed on the grounds that contracts of service ...
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Deaths in Firestone explosion highlight oil and gas risks
When industrial practices encroach on houses, schools, and business (or housing developments encroach on active well sites) it can have horrifying and tragic results. A fatal explosion in Firestone Colorado killed a father of two and his brother-in-law. The wife and one of their children were ...
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