by simmsfirm | May 25, 2017 | Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury
Immediately after an injury, a person injured by medical malpractice is typically not thinking about how best to maintain their records to increase the odds of a favorable recovery. Their main focus is typically on the pain they are suffering, the shock of a...
by simmsfirm | May 5, 2017 | Title IX
A new report published in the Washington Post revealed that colleges and universities are increasingly being named as defendants in lawsuits filed by students that recieved disciplinary action after Title IX Hearings. Under Title IX, federally funded schools must...
by simmsfirm | Apr 27, 2017 | Personal Injury
Prevailing in a Personal Injury Premises Liability Lawsuit Premises liability cases occur whenever someone is injured on another’s property. In Virginia, plaintiffs must prove certain elements in order to prevail in a personal injury lawsuit: The landowner owed a duty...
by simmsfirm | Apr 25, 2017 | Personal Injury
When medicare covers some or all costs related to a personal injury, the injured person, or her family, must submit certain paperwork to the government in certain circumstances. This post is not intended to be comprehensive because the requirements on medicare...
by simmsfirm | Apr 11, 2017 | Criminal Defense
There are two immigration consequences which can be at stake when a client pleads guilty to a criminal offense, inadmissibility back into the United States and the possibility of deportation. A non-citizen is inadmissible if convicted of a crime involving moral...