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• Faced With More Claims, Long-term Care Insurers Deny Benefits

  Nick DiCello | September 02, 2009 9:26 AM | 9 CommentsCleveland, OH

  As Baby Boomers aged, there was a boom in the sale of long-term care insurance during the 1990’s. Now, however, an ever increasing portion of our population, which is living longer and longer,...

• Spangenberg Lawyers File Wrongful Shooting Case Against Hancock County Sheriff

  Nick DiCello | December 24, 2008 1:19 PM | 6 CommentsCleveland, OH

  On December 10, 2008, the lawyers at SS&L filed suit in federal court in West Virginia against the Sheriff of Hancock County on behalf of Charles Penson, a 37-year old Ohioan who was shot...

• Cell Phone Distraction Causes Thousands Of Car Crashes and Injuries Every Year

  Nick DiCello | May 01, 2008 10:00 PM | 3 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Cell phones have become almost mandatory for any professional adult. Once a high tech luxury gadget, now almost everyone has a cell phone, and increasingly more people have two. Cell phones have...

• Greedy Insurance Companies Squeeze Doctors to Pad Their Own Pockets

  Jack Landskroner | July 15, 2006 9:43 AM | 3 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The Insurance Industry has misrepresented that an increase in claims and injury awards have caused a so call " insurance crisis" prohibiting carriers from making a profit and in turn resulting in a skyrocketing increase in doctors malpractice insurance premiums. This is the classic Insurance spin and doctors as well as the general public have bought it hook, line and sinker. The industry's...

• Trucking Industry Poses Serious Hazards for Motoring Public

  Halli Brownfield | April 04, 2008 1:18 PM | 2 CommentsCleveland, OH

  United States Department of Transportation Statistics show that tractor-trailers are involved in over 300,000 accidents per year resulting in the death of approximately 5,000 individuals. Given...

• Medical Malpractice: Defense Refuses $275,000, Jury Says $28 Million

  Staff Writer | June 26, 2006 3:56 PM | 2 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The always tongue-in-cheek Greedy Trial Lawyer brings my attention to a Florida medical malpractice lawsuit in which the defendants refused to settle for $275,000 before trial began. An Altamonte Springs woman had surgery to treat minor incontenence back in 2001. Things didn't go quite as expected, however, and now she must catheterize twice-daily for the rest of her life. At trial, the jury...

• New Nursing Home Quality Rating - Get Informed

  Nick DiCello | March 13, 2009 5:58 PM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH

  The U.S. government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently instituted a quality rating system for all nursing homes that are eligible to receive federal funds through Medicare or...

• The Dangers of Coumadin

  Halli Brownfield | January 05, 2009 9:37 AM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH

  Spangenberg partners, Rhonda Baker Debevec and Stuart Scott, recently handled two separate malpractice cases for clients who suffered severe bleeding complications related to a commonly prescribed...

• Allstate Hit With $16 Million Bad Faith Award

  Halli Brownfield | October 14, 2008 6:12 PM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH

  Demonstrating why the American Association for Justice has named Allstate the worst insurance company in America, a Missouri appellate court has upheld a $16 million judgment against it for failing...

• Former Allstate CEO to Run AIG - Yikes!

  Nick DiCello | September 19, 2008 5:50 PM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH

  Next in line for a government, i.e taxpayer, bailout is the biggest insurance company in the world, American International Group, Inc. ("AIG"). The United States government has been forced to...