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Month: March 2012

INTERROGATORIES ASKING FOR INSURANCE COVERAGE INFORMATION

INTERROGATORIES ASKING FOR INSURANCE COVERAGE INFORMATION

Does your state discovery rules allow you to  ask  the defendant about insurance coverage? If so, you should always take advantage of that right. Insist upon complete answers and don’t be  satisfied with answers like “adequate insurance exists.” If allowed by  the discovery rules move for production of the policies and study the fine print.  Too often we have been  given erroneous answers to the amount of  insurance  coverage. Here are some suggested interrogatories. The following interrogatories are intended to discover…

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COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS FROM FRANK LUNTZ

COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS FROM FRANK LUNTZ

Frank Luntz is a communications consultant who has  written books and published many articles about communication. He has been active  with Republic party campaigns and has done focus studies as part of  that work. Some of his advice is worth considering. Here are a few of his ideas: You only get one chance to make a good impression. Your first sentence, first thought, first idea, is the most important. Successful people demonstrate confidence in themselves and their product. The message…

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SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT JUSTICES OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT JUSTICES OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

The book, Secret lives of the Supreme Court by Robert Schnakenberg has some interesting facts about the people who have been appointed to the U.S. Supreme court. As Robert Ingersoll once said: “We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.” Here are some examples of that fact from the book. Justice James Clark McReynolds was the Archie Bunker of…

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