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• Accident or Negligence?

  Ward Merdes | May 12, 2007 7:25 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Negligence is stupidity. As a juror, just ask yourself if the defendant could have avoided this situation by being more careful. If your answer is "Yes" - then hold the defendant Negligent and give the injured person enough money to get back on their horse. It's that simple. If you break it - you buy it.Jurors are sometimes confused between "Accidents" and "Negligence." After conducting dozens...

• New Jersey Industrial Accident Hurts Couple

  Shannon Weidemann | May 08, 2007 11:22 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A couple using a forklift to move a printing press into a trailer were hurt in an industrial accident in New Jersey. They had been hired to move printing presses out of the old Tapco Inc. building. The trailer overturned onto the woman and her husband was thrown off the forklift he was operating. The wife was pinned under the trailer and her husband suffered a severe head laceration. Because...

• $65 Million Dry Cleaning Claim? What Crap...

  Ward Merdes | May 05, 2007 6:05 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Any judge who sues for $65 million due to damage to his pants is an idiot, pandering to insurance company rhetoric that will make legitimate cases more difficult to win. He is hurting you - when you get injured and juries are "sick and tired of stupid claims ... like yours." See the problem? Everybody else's claim is frivolous. Your claim is legitimate. Trouble is that jury thinks the same...