Clients often come to me with questions about injuries resulting from car accidents. The most common type of injury complaint that I see here in Mississippi is pinched nerves. There are a wide variety of factors that influence whether you will be compensated for a pinched nerve after an accident. One thing is critical to […]
Clients often come to me with questions about neck injuries, which are the most common injury I see resulting from motor vehicle accidents. Unfortunately, people are often misled about how much they can expect from a neck injury settlement. There are a wide variety of factors that influence what sort of payment you can expect […]
Clients often come to me with questions about injuries they suffered at work. This is not a surprise given the number of physically punishing careers. But even people who work in offices or in low-intensity jobs can have work-related injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome and slips and falls. There are a wide variety of […]
As anyone who drives in Mississippi knows, too many people use their phones while they drive. Worse yet, too many accidents are caused by those distracted drivers, often resulting in serious accidents or death. The question is how does one prove that the party that caused your accident was distracted by their phone and that […]
It can be terrifying to become aware of fraud within the corporation that employs you. Choosing to expose that fraud and become a whistleblower means risking your livelihood, friendship with colleagues, and financial security. Once you become a whistleblower and an investigation into the fraud commences, there is a serious chance that you will feel […]
As a personal injury attorney, injured people often meet with me to ask whether they have a strong case or not. As a result, I thought it would be useful to describe what makes a strong personal injury case in Mississippi. One thing is critical to state up front—you will need to have experienced personal […]
With the amount of press around Bitcoin’s meteoric rise and subsequent plummet, my future-looking clients here in Mississippi have asked me whether these “cryptocurrencies’” are subject to the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) whistleblower program. The answer is that they may be. The SEC stated in a July 2017 investigative report that “virtual tokens […]
Now approaching eight years since the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, clients still come to me with questions regarding the current state of affairs regarding Oil Spill payments to residents and workers of the Gulf Coast region. An excellent and informative January article in Insurance Journal, BP Still Paying Gulf Oil Spill Claims as Court […]
After a tremendous amount of political brinksmanship, President Trump signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 into law on February 9, 2018. As an expert in whistleblower law, people have asked me whether the budget had the positive effect on whistleblowers that many hoped for. In one word—ye The 2018 Budget makes new amendments to […]
Mississippi is a state with a tremendous number of hard-working citizens who engage in a wide variety of occupations. Office work, farming, factory work, manufacturing, fishing, and numerous other jobs all have the same thing in common—they require extensive use of the employee’s hands. It is no wonder then the so many injured Mississippi workers […]
