Punitive Damages in Personal Injury and other Tort cases are generally not well understood. If you listen the Big Business and Insurance Industry groups talk about them, you would think that they are awarded all the time, and always in the millions of dollars. In fact, they are awarded in only about three (3) percent […]
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The Law Office of Louis S. Haskell is dedicated to the prompt settlement of automobile, motorcycle, truck, pedestrian and other motor vehicle accident claims for their full and fair value, and to the aggressive litigation of those claims the insurance company refuses to settle for a fair and reasonable amount. Attorney Haskell and his staff
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I am always bothered when looking at my Facebook “newsfeed” when I see a client of mine talking about an accident that they were recently in. The best advice I can give to anybody injured in an automobile accident or any other accident is not to post at all, and if you have already posted,
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One of the interesting changes which has occurred in recent years in the practice of law is the widespread use of social media. There is probably no area of the law which is completely untouched by the advent of social media and the tendency of people on social media to broadcast many, and in some
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The other day, my wife was reviewing a file that transferred in from another lawyer two (2) years after the accident. I know the other lawyer because he was the bank’s lawyer on a real estate deal that I did. My wife could not remember him, although she met him too. When I explained about
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Automobile Medical Payments Coverage and Health Insurance Finally, a Great Decision for Consumers and the Injured Golchin v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in holding that insurance companies must pay optional medical payments benefits in those cases in which the health insurance has already paid has corrected years of mistakes by
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I have believed for years that Allstate/Encompass is the worst auto insurance co. in MA in terms of how it treats its own customers. Recently, Allstate did something I have never seen done before. It refused to pay its own insured’s prescription co-pays, because I did not have a statement from the health insurance explaining
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I recently saw an ad for an attorney in which he was bragging about all of the money that he had “recovered” for his clients in “settlements, judgments and benefits”. It sounded like a huge number, but in reality it was not. I find such a claim to be intentionally misleading, and I do not
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