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- Nevada’s chief attorney on Yucca Mountain, Marta Adams, is retiring. [Las Vegas Sun; RJ]
- Judge Eric Johnson refused to reduce bail for the man who has been behind bars for six years without a conviction. [RJ]
- Judges from Mongolia will be visiting our family courts later this month. The jokes almost write themselves. [eighthjdcourt blog]
I don't think Adam Kutner is a D-bag, but I don't care for his silly ass commercials. Glen Lerner is the way to go. CALL 8-7-7-1-5-0-0! Catchy isn't it.
Found this on another attorney's website – anyone else use it with success to get cases? https://www.upcounsel.com/
I think AVVO is the way to go. I barely even use it and I get several referrals every week from it.
What percentage of your AVVO referrals are good quality? Which practice area(s)?
I'm also curious how effective AVVO is for advertising. In addition to the prior commenter's questions, do you pay for a listing with AVVO? How much do you pay and what do you get for it?
No, I don't pay for it. People just call me. Most of the leads are terrible, but I get at least one good case out of it every quarter.
This morning Bob Massi was on Fox5 (http://www.fox5vegas.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=11681719) talking about changes in personal injury law which have become effective.
One of the items was the new inability of PI attys to get policy limits info before filing a lawsuit.
Does anyone have any more detail about this or any other changes related to PI law or can you point me to a resource?
Thanks in advance.
SB 162 repealed NRS 690B.042. NRS 690B.042 was really the only basis that required pre-litigation disclosure of policy limits. If you want to know the limits now, you need to file a lawsuit or sweet-talk the adjuster.
Its not free, but there are web-based services to search re insurance policy limits, for one example:
http://mlresearchgroup.com/services/insurance-limits-trace.aspx
(no affilation)
…or you could just look at your client's policy.
Just file a lawsuit or demand the policy limits and uncap the policy. Stupid bill. All it is going to do is drive up the cost of defense for insurance companies and give them more exposure.
@4:07 – we're discussing the adverse party's policy limits
Of course, it might also serve to keep costs down, as Plaintiffs counsel no longer get to know the policy limits, and can't send clients to deliberately inflate their costs in order to justify the policy limits demand.
No, attorneys will just adjust by skipping the demand stage and filing a lawsuit to get the limits (or hiring the private companies who will disclose the limits for $200- $500). You can always move to stay the case pending the medical treatment (or go for a longer discovery period). You can just get the policy information in litigation.
9:32 is exactly correct. Basically, insurance companies who want to withhold limits are just going to get their insureds sued faster, driving up the cost of the claim in the process. I personally believe that the insurance company is committing bad faith by not disclosing limits and forcing plaintiffs' attorneys to sue the insureds.
Well, probably not "bad faith" so as to be actionable, but this is definitely a case of "be careful what you wish for." There are all sorts of ways of figuring out the policy limits, but mainly this will result in more lawsuits being filed much earlier. Defense attorneys rejoice!
Wow, @4:07 get a f@cking clue.
He must be a construction defect attorney.