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Check Your Insurance Policy To See If You Have Medpay Coverage.
When I’m speaking with someone about a car wreck they’ve been injured in, one of my first questions is “do you have medpay coverage.” The usual response is something like “you don’t understand, I wasn’t at fault for the wreck so shouldn’t we be going after the at-fault driver’s insurance?” When handling an auto crash case, Read More
What Is Gap Insurance?
I often receive phone calls about liability insurance carriers not wanting to pay for all of the debt associated with a motor vehicle that has been totaled. According to Arkansas’s jury instructions, the liability insurance carrier must only pay the difference in fair market value immediately before and immediately after the wreck. See AMI 2210. Fair Read More
Wet Weather In Arkansas Affects Driving Conditions
On average, there are 5,760,000 motor vehicle crashes yearly in the United States. About 22% of those crashes, approximately 1,259,000, are weather related. Of those approximately 1,259,000 weather related crashes, 73% occur on wet pavement and 46% occur during rainfall. Crashes involving wet pavement and rain account for approximately 21% of all car wreck fatalities. Read More
Is Hands Free Safer Than Hand Held Cell Phone Use?
In 2011, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called for a nationwide ban on driver use of portable electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle. The requested ban included prohibiting drivers from using hands free cell phones while driving. Why? Because statistical data shows that even when drivers have hands free cell phones, they still Read More
McMath Woods Attorney Will Bond Advances To General Election For Arkansas Senate District 32
McMath Woods attorney Will Bond was uncontested in his primary yesterday for Arkansas Senate District 32. Will advances to the general election to be held Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Here’s a link to Will’s campaign site: https://willbond.com/
McMath Woods Announces New Partners John Coulter And Carter Stein
McMath Woods is pleased to announce John Coulter and Carter Stein are partners of the firm.
John Coulter Joins McMath Woods
McMath Woods is pleased to announce John Coulter has joined the firm. John’s areas of practice are labor and employment, family, and injury law.
Lase Med’s Antonella Carpenter Found Guilty On 29 Of 41 Federal Counts
Arkansas Business reported yesterday that Antonella Carpenter, who ran a purported cancer treatment facility in North Little Rock called Lase Med Inc., was convicted in Tulsa, Oklahoma for her fraudulent scheme claiming to cure cancer. Here’s the link to the Arkansas Business article: https://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/109908/lase-med-operator-antonella-carpenter-convicted-for-cancer-scheme?utm_source=enews_022916&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily-report&utm_campaign=newsletter&enews_zone=3815 Back in 2011, a McMath Woods’ client was awarded a 2.5 million Read More
Are Distracted Drivers As Dangerous As Drunk Drivers?
According to a 2006 comparison study entitled A Comparison of the Cell Phone Driver and the Drunk Driver, the answer is “yes.” The conclusion of the research was “when driving conditions and time on task were controlled for, the impairments associated with using a cell phone while driving can be as profound as those associated Read More
AJCCEC’s Rapid Response Team Issues Cease and Desist Letter
The Arkansas Judicial Campaign Conduct and Education Committee, Inc. (AJCCEC) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to displaying information about Arkansas judicial candidates. Yesterday, the AJCCEC’s Rapid Response Team issued a cease and desist letter to the Judicial Fairness Initiative over false and misleading information in a mailer denouncing Arkansas Supreme Court candidate Clark Mason. Here’s Read More