Yesterday we discussed how to find out if your employer has workers’ comp insurance in Tennessee. But sometimes you don’t realize your employer isn’t covered until after you’ve been injured. In that situation, you may already have medical bills backing up, which means you have no time to waste; and while you’re trying to heal, you’re also dealing with a boss who doesn’t want to pay. You may be wondering where you can go to make sure the employer takes responsibility. You may be worried you’ll lose your job if you pursue the case any further. Fortunately the law is on your side. First, it’s illegal not to have workers’ compensation insurance in Tennessee if you have 5 or more
Bankruptcy collectors work for the bankruptcy trustee. In Chapter 7 bankruptcies, they take assets on the trustee’s behalf. For example, if you’re giving up your home in a Chapter 7, a bankruptcy collector takes the property and has it appraised, then sells it and makes sure it’s sold for a fair value. So essentially the collector works as an assistant to the trustee, who is usually in court and stays very busy. With thousands of cases to handle at a time, a trustee typically doesn’t have the time or skill to appraise the value of houses, cars, and other assets, then make sure a sale goes through correctly or sells well at auction. After these sales go through, the bankruptcy
By: Darrell Castle When you schedule a bankruptcy consultation, you’re scheduling an hour or so in which you’ll present your debts, expenses and income information to an attorney, tell your story and discuss your options. This is a time to be completely honest about what you owe, who you owe it to, how much money you make and what you really want. Do you have credit card and medical bills you can’t pay and just want to wipe them away? Do you have a house note you’re behind on and want to keep your home? What about your car? Are creditors calling you and threatening to garnish your wages? What’s really going on here? After you’ve told your story and
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzz0E3zAqvU&feature=channel_video_title Transcript: What is a class action lawsuit? A class action lawsuit is when a court is petitioned to declare a certain set of injuries or injured people to be a class – in other words, everyone who was injured by this drug or by this automobile defect or whatever it might be as a class. In that situation you would have a certain number of named plaintiffs, or a certain number of people who were named in the lawsuit specifically as bringing the case, and there could be thousands – or even more – people in the class that you don’t even know about who were injured; and all those people have to be notified
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzz0E3zAqvU Transcript: What is a mass tort? What is a mass tort? Well, a mass tort is just a tort that affects a mass number of people, you know. A tort is an injury, and mass is just a lot of people. Like: drugs, for example, are distributed across the entire population, and large numbers of people sometimes are injured by them. And so these cases have to be handled in a certain manner, because courts don’t like to litigate thousands of cases one at a time. So quite often they’re consolidated, not necessarily as what people call a “class action,” just all of them heard in the same jurisdiction. That happens a lot, but sometimes
A MIST injury stands for a “Minor Impact Soft Tissue” injury. Insurance companies like to use this label on injuries that don’t involve broken bones. One of the most common examples is whiplash: Whiplash doesn’t involve broken bones, but it’s still very real and very serious. In extreme cases it can cause chronic pain for a lifetime. It can be hard to prove when you experience back pain, neck pain, or migraines after a car accident. These injuries can sometimes be bad enough to keep you from work and may require physical therapy and medication; but the insurance companies often say you’re faking it – even if your doctor says it’s real! When these injuries happen to sports players, everyone
By: Darrell Castle What is a non-qualifying assumable loan? If you’ve filed bankruptcy, is a loan like this a good option for buying a house? How would you find a non-qualifying assumable loan? In this video, Memphis bankruptcy attorney Darrell Castle answers your questions about these loans and how they might affect your life after bankruptcy. Video Transcript A non-qualifying assumable loan is a mortgage – usually – that a person has, and that person wants to sell his or her house. And he happens to hold a mortgage on that house that is assumable. In other words, you as the potential buyer do not have to meet any particular credit standards in order to buy that house. All
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiyG3Ajguvk Transcript: What Is Arrearage? Well arrearage is just simply a term that means the amount of your mortgage that’s in default, and that just means the amount of unpaid mortgage payments. Let’s say that you had a mortgage payment of $1,000 a month, and you had missed three months of payments. Well, your arrearage is $3,000. Now the arrearage can be more if you get so far behind that the mortgage company sends it to an attorney – for collection, let’s say. Well, the attorney is going to add his fee to it, so a $3,000 arrearage becomes a $4,000 arrearage, plus other costs that might be added – interest and so forth. So it
By: Darrell Castle Surely you’ve heard the term “bankruptcy.” But do you really know what it means? I often find that people don’t really know what it means. They don’t take the time to learn about it before making judgements. It’s actually a really powerful tool that helps millions of people. What is bankruptcy? Bankruptcy is a fresh start for people struggling with debt they can’t pay. Bankruptcy is a way of relief. Bankruptcy is a chance to take bad misfortunes or decisions of your past and start new. Bankruptcy is hope. Bankruptcy brings joy. Call our bankruptcy attorneys today. Are there different kinds of bankruptcy? There are many different chapters of bankruptcy. Here at Darrell Castle & Associates, we
Car crash fraud is a crime in which a scammer fakes or stages an auto accident in order to collect compensation for injuries. To make their case more believable and to win the largest settlement possible, the criminal also uses phony clinics to bill insurance companies for medical costs that don’t actually exist. Car crash fraud harms both drivers and insurance companies. Sometimes everyone’s rates increase to cover the losses from fraud, and even after increases some insurance companies can’t stay in business. Plus you can be the victim of a staged car crash – a costly hassle since the scammers will come after your insurance. Another driver might purposefully cause the accident, but then claim it was your fault.