My friends say to me that I must love the snow because it causes so many accidents. Putting aside the idea that the whole concept of loving accidents is reprehensible, I advise them that it is the summer that is the busy season, because there are simply more cars on the road and people are […]
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People have wondered why it is that lately I have been pounding my blog and pounding Facebook with various posts about tax preparation. People say to me ‘Louis, you are the accident lawyer, what is with all this tax preparation stuff?’. They are concerned that I am giving up my bread and butter practice in
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I recently was driving on Interstate 495, in freezing rain, when I was passed by a car doing the sixty-five mile per hour speed limit. Fortunately, nothing bad happened. This is a particularly good thing, because had that car have lost control and hit me, I have no doubt that the insurance adjuster would have
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Motorcycle accidents are a form of motor vehicle accident. In many ways, motorcycle cases are easier than car and truck accident cases, although they do present some of their own unique issues, especially where the payment of medical bills is concerned. There are some legal differences between motorcycle accident and car and truck accidents. This
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Punitive Damages in Personal Injury and other Tort cases are generally not well understood. If you listen the Big Business and Insurance Industry groups talk about them, you would think that they are awarded all the time, and always in the millions of dollars. In fact, they are awarded in only about three (3) percent
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The Law Office of Louis S. Haskell is dedicated to the prompt settlement of automobile, motorcycle, truck, pedestrian and other motor vehicle accident claims for their full and fair value, and to the aggressive litigation of those claims the insurance company refuses to settle for a fair and reasonable amount. Attorney Haskell and his staff
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I am always bothered when looking at my Facebook “newsfeed” when I see a client of mine talking about an accident that they were recently in. The best advice I can give to anybody injured in an automobile accident or any other accident is not to post at all, and if you have already posted,
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One of the interesting changes which has occurred in recent years in the practice of law is the widespread use of social media. There is probably no area of the law which is completely untouched by the advent of social media and the tendency of people on social media to broadcast many, and in some
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The other day, my wife was reviewing a file that transferred in from another lawyer two (2) years after the accident. I know the other lawyer because he was the bank’s lawyer on a real estate deal that I did. My wife could not remember him, although she met him too. When I explained about
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