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Accidents can happen at anytime, but handling the legal aspects of a personal injury claim can be challenging. Personal injury claims can involve many different types of injuries, including automobile accidents, slip and fall accidents, or injury from defective products. Fortunately, there are several steps you can take after a personal injury to prepare you for filing a claim or a lawsuit. Here’s a list of the top ten tips for personal injury claims: Seek out medical attention immediately. If you have been seriously injured, the first thing you should do is seek out medical attention. Do not attempt to...

Rate Increases Continue to Hamper Banks and the Market

Sep 12 2013

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Following is a noteworthy piece published in The Wall Street Journal yesterday — more evidence that the increase in interest rates is taking a negative toll on the real estate market. Additional commentary is from attorney Scott Weitz. Bank executives have been hoping they could dull the pain of a plummeting mortgage-refinance market by shifting focus to loans for home purchases. So far, that isn’t working out. The Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday that mortgage applications dropped 13.5% in the week ended Sept. 6 from the previous week. The data, which includes an adjustment for the Labor Day holiday, reflects a...

The Legal Facts: Slip and Fall Accidents

Sep 12 2013

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We have a lot of slip and fall cases ‘walk’ into our office, which sparked the idea of posting some facts to help those who face such cases. Read on to learn more… A slip and fall injury is a type of tort or civil case. This means it is a private lawsuit that one person brings against another in order to recover monetary damages. Slip and fall injuries can occur in businesses or in private homes. Most often, slip and falls occur in stores or other public places. However, if you go to someone’s house and they have created unsafe conditions...

United States Financial Industry: Why Nothing Has Changed

Sep 11 2013

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Following is a noteworthy op-ed piece published in The Wall Street Journal yesterday with additional commentary from attorney Scott Weitz. Next Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of the fateful day that investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, signaling the start of a frightening financial meltdown. It’s a good time to ponder how the U.S. economy was nearly brought to ruin. But will we? Or are we already forgetting? Consider the stark historical contrast between the 1930s and this decade: Years of financial shenanigans in the 1920s, some illegal but many just immoral, conspired with a variety of other villains to...

Increase in Interest Rates Begins to Hurt Market

Sep 10 2013

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Following is a noteworthy piece published in The Wall Street Journal yesterday with additional commentary from attorney Scott Weitz. A rise in interest rates is slamming homeowners’ demand for mortgages, prompting large and midsize banks to cut jobs and warn investors of declining profitability in the home-loan business. — Scott Weitz Wells Fargo & Co., the nation’s largest mortgage company by loan value, on Monday told investors at a conference that it expects mortgage originations to drop nearly 30% in the third quarter to roughly $80 billion, down from $112 billion in the second quarter. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the...