Why it may be ill advised for an insurance company to say that it will never go off panel to assign work to insurance defense attorneys... Recently, Mills & Associates logged into a webcast sponsored by an insurance industry organization. The webcast’s expert panel was convened to discuss how defense attorneys could better improve the “insurance defense relationship”. As I listened to the panel members, it was reinforced to me how much insurance companies like to follow predetermined … [Read more...]
Dram Shop Wonderland
February 6, 2009 by
Once upon a time in a land far, far away the courts refused to legislate from the bench. That place was called Dram Shop Wonderland. The story goes like this: In that day, there were dram shop owners and innkeepers who served their guests beverages known to cause inebriation. The guests would leave the place in a less than sober state and caused mischief in the town, including damage and injury. The victims of the mischief made appeals to the courts and the courts ordered the guests … [Read more...]
