Congratulations to Robert Eglet, senior partner or Mainor Eglet Cottle, on obtaining a $4.5 million verdict for his client who was injured by a driver who attempted to pass a large tractor trailer on US 95 and struck the client's vehicle head-on. (KVBC)ACLU is unhappy with a wedding handbilling law that says it's "unlawful" to solicit "any person to be married" while on courthouse property. (Review-Journal)
The Las Vegas Metro Police gang unit is trying to track down the person/people who defaced several restrooms in the Regional Justice Center with gang graffiti. (Las Vegas Sun)
The State Board of Education is taking up to 21 months to revoke the licenses of teachers convicted of crimes, including sex crimes. (Las Vegas Sun)
It's County official criminal charge time: a Nye County Commissioner is accused of bribery (Review-Journal) and in Washoe County a water engineer is accused of forming two bogus companies to sell county water well capacity rights he did not own (Review-Journal).
Members of the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners may soon have to divulge conflicts of interest. (Review-Journal). Meanwhile an editorial says the fact that Shadow Mountain Surgical Center was allowed to continue operating after the facility was found to have infection control problems shows that Nevada doctors are still allowed to flout the rules. (Review-Journal)
The Transportation Security Agency will be using body-scanning machines that generate revealing images of people underneath their clothes at McCarran Intl. Airport. (Review-Journal)
Up in Reno, Federal Judge Loren A. Smith awarded more than $4.2 million to the estate of late Nevada rancher and "Sagebrush Rebellion" private property rights advocate Wayne Hage, ruling that the U.S. Forest Service committed a constitutional "taking" of his water rights during a decades-long dispute over livestock grazing on federal land. (Review-Journal) And an editorial celebrates the now-deceased Mr. Hage's fight for property rights. (Review-Journal)
Fox Rothschild had a big jump in revenue and established a full service office in Las Vegas during 2007. (Law.com)
Instead of congratulations, it should be "shame on you, Eglet."
ReplyDeleteShame on you, Eglet, for getting a judgment that you will never be able to collect on. Unless, of course, the oncomming car was a Bentley.
ReplyDeleteHe will likely collect, though it won't be for a while. According to Eglet, the insurance company could have settled for $500k. They likely blew an offer of judgment and will be the subject of a bad faith claim. Depending on the facts, they may be able to get punitives, which will be a hell of a lot more than $4.5 milion. As for "shame on you Eglet," your right....it should be shame on you Eglet for helping hold somebody responsible. Or, perhaps, "shame on you Eglet, for taking away from the insurance company's billions." I'm not a huge Eglet fan, but at least he is out there helping create some balance against insurance companies. Oh wait, I forgot....these insurance companies are out there to help US!! Comical.
ReplyDeleteWhoever thinks that jury awards just come out of profits is dillusional. We've already got sky high insurance premiums here in LV (for a variety of reasons) but everyone ends up paying multi-million dollar verdicts, (for someone whose lifetime earning potential was probably a couple hundred thousand) through higher premiums.
ReplyDeleteI really doubt the insurance companies think, "oh boy, that jury really sent us a loud a clear message, maybe we should lower our rates so future verdicts won't be so outrageous."
Stupid insurance companies (at least they give us all jobs).
Dillusional is thinking that higher premiums are being used to pay verdicts. Do you honestly think that anything matters to insurance companies other than the bottom line? They will charge the highest premiums they can, while staying competetive. Why not try looking into physicians' premiums since the "medical malpractice crisis," and tell me what you find. The fact is, after the caps were instituted the premiums went down very little, if at all. Vegas is now basically a medical malpractice ghost town (at least in the number of cases brought, not the amount of malpractice committed). Now, with such a huge reduction of cases being brough/claims being filed, common sense would say that premiums would come down, right? After all, your argument appears to be that such high premiums are used to pay large verdicts. Then why aren't they coming down??? I'll give you a hint. ($). I recognize that this article is regarding personal injury, and not med mal, but insurance companies are insurance companies-all operating by the same principle. Try looking in to All States three D program: Deny, Delay, Defend (as explained by All State claims adjustor). Maybe they could reduce our premiums a little if they would pay valid claims when they know they are valid, instead of delaying and increasing court costs. Insurance companies are not your savior. When you are in a bind- they will screw you. I will be the first to agree that there are some shady PI attorneys. However, it blows my mind when people refuse to acknowledge that the insurance companies are no angels themselves. There are good attorney and bad attorneys on both sides. At least be honest about it.
ReplyDeleteWow, I guess I should try implenting paragraphs. Sorry for the tough read.
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