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Woke up with a sore throat and congestion. My wife had this shit last week and was negative for Covid. Unfortunately she used our last at home test kit and I can’t find any around here. Came to the office and locked myself in to avoid everyone as a precaution while my wife looks for more tests or gets me an appointment at a site. I’ll probably bail after lunch either way because I just feel like I want to lay down and sleep.
You won’t find an at home test anywhere in south Florida. we had like 10 leftover kits from my son’s baptism and my wife systematically ran through them all over the past few months taking a test every time she had the sniffles. UGH
Insurance lawyers: Do you know of any reason why a bar's liability policy wouldn't cover dram shop injuries? I have what sounds like a pretty good case against a bar where some folks were visibly intoxicated and the bar continued to serve them. They left and hit my client head on. Horrific wreck.
Some policies are written with an exclusion for knowningly serving an intoxicated person or any actions/inaction that supports punitive damages. They cover negligence, not intentional or knowing service.
The standard for liability under our dram shop act is knowingly serving a visibly intoxicated person. So if they excluded that then they effectively wouldn't cover any dram shop liability.
partner has now gotten involved and his contribution to date has been to call us unprofessional, insulting, and defamatory. He’s also pulled out the “I would never file something like this against another lawyer” card and asked us to withdraw the motion. unprofessional - filing a motion for sanctions Professional - engaging in sanctionable conduct
Had a motion for sanctions filed against me with no warning because discovery was due yesterday and I didn’t file responses. He specifically asked for 1000 in sanctions. Lmao
does anyone have experience dealing with these crooks who buy AR from medical providers and then are totally unreasonable on reductions?
Seems like a good way for a doctor's office or radiology clinic to make sure no plaintiff's attorneys use them in the future?
Texas is still straight LOP? Georgia is almost exclusively funding companies at this point. The people that will hold their own paper are awful docs and not worth using.
I spent all last week and Saturday being like "okay, come Monday, I'll be ready to get back to it." Then I found out that my daughter doesn't go back to school until Wednesday and so I guess I'm not going to be getting much work done until Wednesday now.
I spent all last week isolated to a far corner of the couch in the family room because of ‘rona. I was actually happy to come into the office today and feel like a human being again.
see I think you could do it for much much less like 250k or so. Just loan money to your friends clients that you trust. profit.
i think you could do it with 250k cash and another 1m from the bank at 4% or whatever all of these people are at least doubling their money on every piece of paper they buy
Our firm has on average 2-4m in loans out at any given time in the year. I assume the bigger players that actually make good money doing this have at least 2-3x that.
No, that is the firm's outstanding loans. We lend directly with a much less aggressive interest rate. Overall we lose money but it helps us keep cases.
what are yalls state rules on that? We can only lend $1500 for stuff like personal expenses such as mortgage/rent/bills . But we can privately fund as much as we want for medical treatment necessary for the litigation.
was very tempted to go play video games this afternoon but I am an honorable man and am powering through the day.
May or may not have had extended cuts of Lord of the Rings on in the background while I worked all day.
in my very contentious case with the multiple sanctions motions, we had to confer before the end of the year to give the judge a proposed timeline for the completion of discovery because the Defendant got caught hiding emails and had to do a court ordered search, which they have not completed. The filing to the court essentially amounted to: Plaintiffs state they need 5 months from the completion of Defendant's search in order to complete discovery. Defendant says Plaintiff should not get any additional discovery because they knew about these witnesses before. I'm not sure that's the route I would have taken if I were them.
To do it right you need $1MM cash and a $10MM line of credit (ours is at 12%). Line underwrites each and funds 90%. Obviously not including whatever capital for start up, marketing, and 6 mos. operating costs. Most physicians in Florida won’t sell their paper because they know they will get less cases. If you have relationships or prove you won’t be an asshole if you have to settle, you can make a lot of money.
Different kind of funding but same funding mechanism as above, pre-settlement, average size deal is 600-1500 and charge 15-20% a quarter (subject to some state regulation). Lets start one and you guys and all your attorney friends send us cases.
wes tegg , just had a Christian Small lawyer want to know if we could settle a GC MVA case (AA Plaintiff, out of county white Defendant) with very limited treatment for less than 5k.
Yes. I think I hurt her feelings because after I got done laughing, I said wait were you serious? Told her I'd just take a single doctor deposition, forego taking her client's, and just go strike a jury.