A newspaper head line caught my attention last week: “Young woman hit when darting onto crosswalk”. The headline screamed off the page at me. As a lawyer who dedicates his practice to pursuing the rights…
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We’ve got ourselves a serious attitude problem. We see driving as a right. A driver’s license is awarded on the basis of passing a technical skills test. But calling them “skills” is a bit of…
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My office participated in the recent Bike to Work Week awareness program. I have only a basic understanding of how it worked. I have a keen assistant who promoted the idea within my office and…
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I was at a conference this past weekend. It was about traumatic brain injuries. In simple terms, a traumatic brain injury is an injury to the brain caused by trauma. Yes, there are other brain…
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I have a good friend who is a woman but I must state emphatically at the outset I do not believe her gender had anything to do with the story I am going to tell….
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Does an injury require broken bones to be considered serious? According to the way most people talk, including some insurance adjusters, you might think so. And the media encourage such misperceptions. Listen to, watch or…
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There’s a four letter word that some would say should never be uttered. While several words might fit into that category, there is one, however, that seems to stand out from the rest. It’s not…
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This is my first-anniversary column. My first column a year ago, ‘It’s Not About Screwing The Insurance Company,’ was published Jan. 7, 2007. It all started when a very good friend, an advertising consultant with…
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I made a comparison in my last posting between Russian roulette and failing to ensure a child passenger is properly belted in. In my view, both can be described as a deadly game of chance….
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We’re all familiar with Russian Roulette, right? No insult intended to the Russians among us. I just don’t know it by any other name. You stick a bullet in one of six revolver chambers, give…
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