Gary L. Wickert will be presenting a complimentary live webinar on “New York Automobile Subrogation” from 10:00-11:00 a.m. (CDT) on October 23, 2013. Noah Gradofsky, a New York attorney with the Law Offices of Jan Meyer & Associates, PC, will serve as a special guest co-presenter at this webinar. This webinar is approved for 1.0 Texas…
In one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes[1], a frightened Kramer is lost and calls Jerry from a phone booth somewhere in Manhattan. Jerry asks him to look around for a street sign and Kramer responds with a touch of panic that he is at the intersection of 1st Street and 1st Avenue, concluding that he…
Effective subrogation requires a thorough understanding of some of the more confusing legal terms we must all work with. Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C. has compiled a list of the various laws in every state dealing with whether the state is a contributory negligence state (bars recovery with only 1% of fault by the plaintiff)…
When an employee is involved in a motor vehicle accident while in the course and scope of his employment and the at-fault tortfeasor is uninsured or underinsured, the question arises as to whether the employee can recover under his employer’s uninsured or underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) policy as well as recover workers’ compensation benefits. We recently…