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• Settlement of Personal Injury Claims

  Ed Van Dorn | February 07, 2007 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Our personal injury clients want to know whether their cases will settle or will they have to go to court. Because of our extensive experience in handling hundreds of personal injury claims we are generally able to predict what will happen. While each case is different our experience and track record gives us some valuable information. Statistically over 90% of our cases settle without having...

• Man Injured in Car Crash

  Christina Cole | December 29, 2006 4:41 AM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  A New Hampshire man sustained neck injuries on Monday morning in a car crash on Interstate-91 in Springfield according to Vermont State Police.Police ay they were dispatched at 11:33am and found a 2001 Ford Escort driven by Larkin Burrill, 88, had apparently left the roadway on the left side and traveled into a wooded area. The car had extensive damage to the front and both sides. Police are...

• Sleeping Driver Crashes Through Harbor City Fence

  Christina Cole | December 21, 2006 10:16 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  A driver asleep at the wheel crashed a car through a Harbor City fence on Wednesday night, authorities said. The accident happened around 10:15 p.m. at the intersection of Vermount Avenue and Lomita Boulevard. The car, which had a Mexican license plate, rolled over after plowing through the fence, according to reporters at the scene. The two boys in the car were taken to the hospital for...

• Slip-and-Fall Suit Filed

  Christina Cole | December 21, 2006 2:30 AM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  A Kanawha County woman is suing a pharmacy for not maintaining the floor in a safe condition that caused her to slip and fall.On November 14th, Ann Hines filed her lawsuit against Fruth Pharmacy in Kanawha Circuit Court. Hines says Fruth had a duty to not expose its visitors to injury while they are exercising ordinary care with their own safety. The alleged incident happened on November 14th,...

• Insurance Company Doctors Often Don't Give Accident Victims The Benefit Of The Doubt.

  Rob Curtiss | October 25, 2007 7:55 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  When an accident victim makes a claim against a negligent driver, who is insured, it is the driver's insurance company that handles the claim. Often the company insists that the injury victim undergo an examination by a doctor working for it. The insurance companies refer to these examinations as "Independent Medical Examinations". Of course, there is nothing independent about them. The...

• Most Accidents Causing Serious Personal Injury Can Be Avoided

  Ed Van Dorn | October 05, 2007 4:37 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  You're driving down the road and suddenly get a flat in your left front tire, your car abruptly veers left. What do you do? Instinctively, most drivers sharply turn the wheel right to steer back on course, but is this the right thing to do? According to the experts, its not. So the driver's immediate reaction is to grab the steering wheel and jerk it in the desired direction, which can put the...

• Insurance Companies Systematically Fail To Honor Claims

  Ed Van Dorn | October 03, 2007 6:55 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  We have been posting for a while on the insurance industries' ongoing practice of systematically denying valid claims. This problem is across the board, including automobile insurance, home owners insurance and health insurance. Finally the U.S. Congress may be waking up to the problem. The NY Times reports today that:The top-ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee has asked 11...

• Injuries May Affect Working Men and Women More Than Pro Athletes

  Rob Curtiss | September 27, 2007 9:26 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  The baseball season is reaching it's most exciting stage, the playoffs. As a Boston Red Sox fan, I am happy that a number of our star players are recovering from injuries in time for the post-season. Professional ball players, however, get paid whether or not they are in the lineup. Working men and women often do not. That is why when I represent working men and women, I understand their damage...

• Where Do The Candidates Stand on Tort Reform

  Rob Curtiss | September 27, 2007 9:01 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Last night the Democratic presidential candidates debated at Dartmouth College. One issue that accident victims and their families may want to focus on in the upcoming election is where the candidates stand in regard to so-called tort reform. Tort reform is a movement started by the insurance companies to limit an accident victim's access to the civil justice system and to limit the damages the...

• ATV Accident Kills Two

  Ed Van Dorn | August 28, 2007 2:33 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Another ATV related tragedy occured Sunday evening in Georgia Vermont where two ATV riders were killed when the vehicle hit a tree. Personal injury attorney Ed Van Dorn says ATV accidents involving serious injury and death are all too common in the North Country. It seems that many riders don't fully appreciate the danger associated with these recreational vehicles.When riding an ATV safety...