In personal injury claims where the two sides have disparate valuations based in part on substantial interest accrual, there exists an underused tool for bridging the difference and reaching an accord. This tool is the very...
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Over the past few years, the plaintiff bar has expanded its use of improper anchoring tactics. Historically, improper anchoring was seen as a risky tactic in which a plaintiff’s counsel would suggest an outrageous figure...
About a year ago a colleague brought my attention to the increase in irrelevant, inflammatory, scandalous, and improper language in plaintiff pleadings in catastrophic injury, fire, and death cases. Since that time, the...
To appropriately preserve an issue for appeal is frankly confusing to many attorneys due to differing rules depending on the issue or procedural posture (presumably why appellate attorneys are more commonly used during...
Today’s very practical and specific alert addresses a particularly annoying bugaboo of New York wrongful death litigation that has plagued far too many mediations and risk evaluations over the past few decades. One would...