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Don’t Always Expect the Insurance Company to be on Your Side After a car accident, you may feel it necessary to contact your auto insurance company or carrier and let them know what has happened immediately. While informing your carrier of an accident is an important step in getting...
Read More Continue ReadingAttractive Nuisance Doctrine In most states, there are special rules addressing injuries to trespassing children. In Tennessee, for example, there is the “attractive nuisance doctrine,” recently codified in Tenn. Code. Ann. 29-34-208. In summary, that doctrine holds that a land owner or possessor is liable for injuries to children who...
Read More Continue ReadingDigital Assets: Who can access my online accounts if I die? Chances are, if you are reading this Blog Post, you own Digital Assets and have one or more online accounts. As Estate Planning Lawyers, we continue to see changes in the law to address our increasingly tech-savvy culture. The...
Read More Continue ReadingJoint Property Ownership Pitfalls and Solutions Our law firm has worked on a couple of cases lately involving joint property ownership; that is, property owned by a group of several individuals. Owning a piece of land or real estate with a group of individuals or family members can lead to...
Read More Continue ReadingWho Says a Judge Can’t Be Funny? While the underlying crime is by no means funny — i.e. an argument over a dog pooping in a neighbor’s yard that led to a machete fight — Judge Jeff Sutton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit...
Read More Continue ReadingInfo From Patterson Bray About the Wrongful Death of a Child No one should have to ever think about the wrongful death of a child. As a mother of two young children, I can’t think of anything more unbearable than the loss of a child. But according to the...
Read More Continue ReadingHealth Insurance vs. Car Insurance Almost every state in this country requires a motor vehicle driver to carry insurance, except for New Hampshire and Virginia. Whenever you need to go to the hospital, you expect to utilize the services you pay for to cover your care. But what happens when...
Read More Continue ReadingLearning from Prince’s Mistake It’s been widely reported that Prince probably died without a Will. This has left many people wondering: How could someone rich and famous like Prince die without a Will? Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for people, even the super-wealthy, to to die without even the simplest form of...
Read More Continue ReadingThe Costs of Slip and Fall Accidents Most of us in our life have at some time slipped and fallen down with no long lasting effects, but a slip and fall accident can potentially result in a serious neck injury. When it can be proven that the cause of a...
Read More Continue ReadingWill the IRS make me pay taxes on my settlement? Many of our Memphis and Tennessee injury clients ask – will I have to pay taxes on my settlement for personal injuries? The general answer is NO. Here is what the IRS currently says about Settlements and Taxability: If you...
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