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Getting Your Medical Bills Paid
![Getting Your Medical Bills Paid] Our clients often ask us “Who is going to pay my bills?” and we tell them, in all honesty – it depends. However, these four steps will help illuminate what happens regarding insurance billing in most cases following a…
Published Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Loss of Use after a Collision
A client recently asked me a question regarding loss of use of his vehicle. His vehicle was damaged in a collision and the other side delayed making an offer for the use of a rental car for approximately one week. The insurance company is now offering a…
Published Friday, February 04, 2011
Look Left Last
Recently, a couple of events in my life reminded me of a driving principal – you have to “Look Left Last”. Looking left last as you enter an intersection will eliminate many potential hazards to you and your loved ones. Drivers must look to their left…
Published Thursday, September 01, 2016
Vehicles Principally Garaged definition
Some cases have articulated this to mean what was the parties intention regarding the actual location of the vehicle in the state. If the insured intends to keep the vehicle in another state during the policy period, and does keep the vehicle in another…
Published Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Recovery from One-Car Motor Vehicle Collisions
Often cars/drivers must react to the negligence of other drivers and this seems rather obvious. But, as a result of those reactions, if one crashes their car, through no fault of their own, they may make a claim for underinsured motorist coverage with…
Published Monday, December 18, 2017
7 Things To Do Following a Motor Vehicle Collision
7 things to do following a motor vehicle collision: 1.Document the collision by maintaining the information you can at the scene. a.Write down all you can as soon as possible after the crash. For example, if someone has admitted fault for the collision…
Published Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Reasonably Safe Roads for Ordinary Travel
Recently, the Washington Supreme Court provided clarification for what constitutes the extent of a municipality’s duty and the effect on legal causation. In Lowman v. Wilbur, 178 Wn.2d 165, 309 P.3d 387 (2013) the court looked at an opportunity to…
Published Thursday, September 15, 2016
Loss of Earning Capacity - What can you recover if you cannot work up to your capabilities?
Washington Pattern instruction 30.08 stands for the proposition that one’s loss of earning capacity is the inability to earn money. This is the permanent diminution or decrease in the ability to work. It may only entail an increasing difficulty with…
Published Monday, November 27, 2017
How To Switch on Your Brain - Book Summary
How to Switch on your Brain – The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking and Health. By Caroline Leaf, PhD. c. 2013. Book Summary. Dr. Leaf is an expert who has conducted research, treated brain injured patients and studied the debilitating challenges for…
Published Tuesday, October 08, 2019
False Assumption - 6. The insurance company for the other driver will believe me
The insurance company for the other driver will believe me when I tell them how much it hurts. Being examined by a health care provider shortly after a collision allows you to obtain some beneficial relief. At the same time, the injured person obtains…
Published Tuesday, July 24, 2007
