Miscellaneous

• Personal Injury Lawyers

  Ed Van Dorn | October 26, 2007 10:27 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Placing a value on a personal injury case involves a number of factors, many of which cannot be known at the beginning of the case. Any lawyer taking a personal injury case should be prepared to try that case to a jury if the insurance company is not willing to pay a fair and just settlement. Many lawyers belong to listserves. These are groups that share emails about legal topics of interest....

• Burned Out California Home Owner's Will Look To Their Insurance Companies.

  Rob Curtiss | October 25, 2007 2:21 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Once again, a natural disaster has struck our Country. In San Diego, California thousands of homes are still threatened by massive fires. Our first prayer, of course is for the personal safety of all the residents of the area, and all the brave responders battling the fires. But it appears likely that many homes will be destroyed, which will cause home owners to look to their insurance...

• Extreme Home Makeover Selects Manchester, New Hampshire Family

  Rob Curtiss | October 25, 2007 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Recently Extreme Home Makeover, the television program, came to the aid of a Manchester family of six that has struggled since the Mother's day flood in 2006. The family lost their home with all of their belongings in the flood and was forced to watch their home be demolished. Since that time, the family has lived in a second floor apartment next to the lot where their home once stood while...

• Leaf Peepers May Not Always Pay Attention to the Road

  Rob Curtiss | October 05, 2007 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  During the next several weeks, our roads in Central Vermont and New Hampshire fill up with the out of state tourists we affectionately call "leaf peepers." We must remember though that leaf peepers are sometimes more interested in focusing on the foliage than on the road in front of them.As a firm that exclusively represents personal injury victims, often involving car accidents, we urge caution...

• 40th Anniversary of Cog Railway Train Crash

  Rob Curtiss | October 05, 2007 4:52 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Several weeks ago, marked the 40th anniversary of the Mount Washington Cog Railway train derailment which killed 8 people and injured 70 others. Because of a systems failure, a train engine rolled off a trestle causing a passenger car to speed down the mountain until it jumped the tracks and flew into a rock.Ultimately, the Cog Railway settled a number of damage claims that were brought against...

• Man Struck by Bus and Seriously Injured

  Ed Van Dorn | October 03, 2007 9:46 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  A Concord man, John Smart, received life threatening injuries when struck by a Concord Area Transit bus while he was walking in a cross walk. While the accident is still under investigation by the police one thing is clear. Pedestrians walking in cross walks have the right of way. The business of our firm, Van Dorn and Curtiss, is dedicated to ensuring that personal injury victims recieve...

• Accident on Route 107 in Deerfield

  Ed Van Dorn | October 03, 2007 9:31 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Another avoidable accident occured the other day on Route 107 in Deerfield. According to police reports a Lincoln Navigator crossed over the center line of the highway and crashed head-on into a Chrysler Sebring sending 3 people to the hospital. There are many reasons why New Hampshire highways have so many accidents and collisions, but one thing is clear -- The vast majority of accidents are...

• O.J. Simpson Owes Victims' Families Over Thirty Million Dollars As A Result Of A Civil Judgment

  Rob Curtiss | September 27, 2007 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Many of us are aware O.J. Simpson is back in the news as a result of criminal charges filed against him in Las Vegas. Most of us also know that the former football star was acquitted at his murder trial. What fewer people realize is that the families of the murder victims, Simpson's former wife, Nicole, and Ron Goldman, brought a civil suit against him for money damages. This civil trial ended...

• Accident Related Worker Deaths

  Ed Van Dorn | September 20, 2007 10:08 AM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  In the year 2006, 5,703 people died while at work. Most of them died due to work related accidents. Most of these accidents could have been avoided. See the Bureau of Labor Statistics Website for more detailed information. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor is urging legislation that will improve workplace safety. But we all know how Congress works. For every...

• Personal Injury Claims and Insurance Companies

  Ed Van Dorn | September 11, 2007 4:49 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  In the movie "Sicko" there is a scene where Ehrlichman says to Nixon: "The less care they give 'em, the more money they (the insurance companies) make." That is the universal truth concerning all insurance companies. Witness the insurance industries miserable performance in covering the claims from Hurricane Katrina. And even in the 9/11 tragedy some insurance companies have made desperate...