Recent Articles

Where To Go To Resolve Your Securities Claims? FINRA Abritration.

March 20, 2012 22:35

Most people know that it is a good idea to hire an attorney when entering contracts, creating a will or trust, or engaging in litigation. What you may not know is that you can, and often should, hire an attorney for arbitrations. With increasing frequency contracts contain arbitration provisions...

New Imaging Technique For Traumatic Brain Injury

March 03, 2012 20:03

A new and powerful imaging technique has been developed that will allow doctors to clearly see the brain's neural connections that have been broken by traumatic brain injury and other neurological disorders. High Definition Fiber Tracking may now give doctors a means of objectively determining how...

Some Defenses Only Make Things Worse

February 04, 2012 22:57

Sometimes even jaded lawyers are surprised by the arguments invented by the opposing party. The attorneys at the Alaska Personal Injury Group have handled a number of motorcycle collision cases, and I recently represented a motorcyclist who was injured in a "road rage" incident on the Glenn...

Alaska Personal Injury Law Group Appellate Victory

January 23, 2012 23:32

Congratulations to my partner Mike Moody, and his co-counsel Dennis Mestas, for their excellent work in the Ennen v. Integon Insurance case. The Alaska Supreme Court recently held in Ennen v. Integon Insurance Corp., Opinion No. 6637 (1/20/12 Alaska), that insurance companies owe a duty of good...

The "Prior Odds" Fallacy

December 05, 2011 03:49

One of the increasingly common arguments I see defense experts make in our automobile collision practice and our aircraft crash practice involves the misuse of statistical evidence. Defense experts have taken the prior odds of a particular type of injury occurring in a certain type of accident and...

The Two Front War: Fighting Both The Defendant and Your Insurer

November 20, 2011 02:36

Most individuals who call our office recognize they can recover damages when they have been injured through the negligence of others. The wrongful conduct could be any number of things: drunk driving, running a stop sign, speeding, crashing a plane, marketing a defective product, creating a...

Neil O'Donnell Selected for Alaska Super Lawyers

November 02, 2011 04:34

Alaska Personal Injury Law Group member Neil O'Donnell has recently been selected for inclusion in 2011 Alaska Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers advises that "only five percent of the attorneys in the state are named to the list" and that selection is based on "peer recognition and professional...

May is Motorcycle Awareness Month

April 24, 2011 02:10

May is a particularly perilous month for motorcycle and bicycle riders given the Alaska Personal Injury Law Group's totally non-scientific sampling of individuals who contact our office throughout the year. After six months or more of winter, auto and truck drivers are simply not used to looking...

Highway Traffic Deaths Continue to Fall

April 06, 2011 18:55

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that 32,788 people died in traffic accidents in the United States in 2010, the lowest number of motor vehicle related deaths since 1949. This is a remarkable achievement given that the population of the United States more than...

Poor Economy Has Important Ramifications for Personal Injury Claims

March 17, 2011 01:04

Individuals who are severely or catastrophically injured must assert a one-time claim for all the economic losses they will experience over their remaining life expectancy on account of their injury. An injured person only gets one trial. The injured individual cannot go back to court in 5, 10 or...