Discovery

Like many of my peers in defending trucking companies, I am often called upon to oversee the investigation of catastrophic accidents. I doing so, I retain the experts and field adjusters to [...]

Our firm would like to depose some of the doctors at the VA who treated a veteran. When contact was made with the VA hospital to get the dates when those doctors were available, the VA informed [...]

The following is a great asset for a quick reference to the cellphone laws in each state. Thanks to Harvey Mensch with ATTIC for sending to me. Thanks to the Insurance Institute for Highway [...]

Although the Veterans Administration has fallen under recent scrutiny for the backlog of patients to be seen, those of us the private practice of law have long been frustrated with the process of [...]

I cannot understand how anyone can make the argument with a straight face that social media posts of the plaintiff are not relevant. Surely the posts of a the plaintiffs’s activities before [...]

Although the decision is over a year old, in NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. v. Lilly Co. (No. 11-2415 AV, 2011 WL 5986649, W.D. Tenn. Nov. 16, 2011), the plaintiff brought a motion to [...]

The following are a list of “Tricky Questions” often used in depositions. It would behoove you to pay attention to these tricks before your next deposition. The question is asked out [...]

As truck driver made an lane change, he collided with a passenger car, which was pushed into a retaining wall. To add “insult to injury,” the truck driver was allegedly under the [...]

Undoubtedly, there would be substantial prejudice against a trucking company if its wealth was admitted into evidence. Usually, this will be rare; however, when making a claim for punitive [...]