Attorney Michael Molloy was recently talking to an 8th grade classroom when one of the students asked an interesting question: what if someone is hurt, but then passes away from unrelated circumstances? The answer turned out to be simple. A case is treated the same as any other asset someone leaves when they pass away.…
Continue reading ›One of the first things people do after being in an accident is to call their insurance company. The company will ask some basic information about how it happened and who was involved. Eventually, the insurance company might ask if you will agree to a recorded statement. A recorded statement is just what you think…
Continue reading ›When you’re hurt on the job and you can’t work, the insurance company should be paying your wages. However, what many people don’t know is that an insurance company can decide to stop paying you without much notice. This is called the “Pay Without Prejudice” period. For the first 180 days you receive Workers Compensation,…
Continue reading ›When you’re injured and pursuing a claim, it can come as a surprise that the insurance company is requesting your medical records from before the injury. Why do they need to go through your medical history? In most cases, they don’t. Often, insurance companies are just fishing for an excuse to say that they don’t…
Continue reading ›Proving a case is like building a house. The foundation is built, and then the walls, and then the roof. If you go in the wrong order, the house is not going to be very sturdy. Proving an injury case has the same complexity. One of the building blocks in many cases are expert witnesses.…
Continue reading ›When injured in an accident, many people do not want their health insurance paying their medical bills. They think that the person who caused the accident should be paying medical bills as they come in. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works in Massachusetts. Most times, the person who causes an injury doesn’t make any payments…
Continue reading ›The first part of a jury trial often gets glossed over in the movies and on TV: picking the jury. The legal system wants jurors who will hear the facts and come to a decision without any biases or preconceived notions. Getting those jurors takes some work. Therefore, jurors go through a process called Voir…
Continue reading ›One of the most frequent questions we get when we settle cases for our clients is whether the money our client receives is taxable. In injury cases, most settlements are not taxable. The IRS has declared that all damages that stem from a person injury do not have to be declared on your taxes. That…
Continue reading ›If you’ve been in an accident and are making a claim for injuries, treat your social media just as you would when you are applying for a job. Insurance companies are constantly looking at Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms to see what injured people are doing. What they’re first looking for are obvious…
Continue reading ›If you’re in an accident, one thing you’ll notice is that you’ll start to get a lot of calls from insurance companies. Most of the time, they’ll start with an adjuster asking to make sure that you’re OK. They’re trained to do that to get you comfortable. After that, there will be many questions. Where…
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