Personal Injury Mediation

Recently, there has been a significant effort to move away from the stressful nature of legally settling personal injury claims via the courts. As a replacement, people have been exploring various ways of settling the matter out of court. Most of the time, the parties involved undergo mediation. Even attorneys-at-law as well as insurance companies already recognize the benefit of this alternative action. Presently, it has become quite a staple especially when it comes to personal injury cases. If you had come to a standstill when it comes to the negotiations with your insurance company regarding this matter, mediation can offer you an effective way out.
 

Mediation Benefits Regarding Personal Injury Claims

As mentioned earlier, if you have come to a standstill regarding your injury claim, consider using mediation as an option to renegotiate. Here are some benefits to mediation. It will allow you to see the adjuster and plead your case personally. Because of the personal touch, you may be able to convince the adjuster to give you a better deal when it comes to your personal injury claims. Mediation will also give the adjuster an opportunity to exert extra effort on your claims increasing the chances of settling the matter at that exact moment. You do not need to preset any other documents or related papers for mediation. More importantly, you will be able to have a third party to help reach a consensus. In connection, mediation is a much faster and cheaper than hiring a lawyer to go to court.

Conditions for Mediation

Given the many related issues regarding insurance claims, you may want to mediate if presented with the following conditions:

• Both parties are on a standstill regarding any settlement amounting to $2000 or more.

• The point of contention is the extent of the injury for one party or the extent of accountability for either party. Usually, this is the most common reason for mediation aside from the last one which is:

• In addition, you can go through mediation if you have no other option left aside from going to court and hiring a lawyer. This will save you a lot of time and money in the end.

These are just some of the points and conditions that warrant mediation. Hopefully, you will learn a lot of legal pieces of information that can be of use to you in the near future.

About Clay Serenbetz

Clay Serenbetz is the Chairman of Legal Malpractice Section. Clay focuses on the legal malpractice issues concerning unethical lawyer advertising, professional ethics and fiduciary duties of practicing lawyers.

Secret Ways to make 2016 Fabulous - Clay Serenbetz

Based on my previous posts, here are some powerful ways to make 2016 your best year ever, Here we go –

1.  Beautify your work area. As much as possible, make your work environment a place where you feel comfortable and positive.

2.       Bundle minor tasks into single efforts. Combine minor to-do items into a single project and they will seem easier to accomplish.

3.       Do the easy stuff first. Look for easy-to-do tasks that will have a large positive effect on your career and business. Do those tasks first.

4.       End each day with gratitude. Just before bed, write down something wonderful that happened that day. Be grateful for the day because it will never come again.

5.       Laugh more often. Numerous studies show that laughter doesn't just make you happier, it also make you healthier by relieving stress.

6.       Help someone less fortunate. Giving to others is the best way to create a sense of abundance in your own life.

7.        Lose more arguments. Some battles aren't worth fighting, and many people are easier to handle when they think they've won.

8.       Never over commit yourself. Be enthusiastic and go the extra mile, but avoid making promises that you can't reasonably keep.

9.       Show more respect. Respect is the foundation of a strong business relationship. Respect creates respect, and thus the relationship grows.

10.   Sleep more soundly. An hour before bed shut down your computer and phone. When you wake up, wait until you're ready for work to read your emails.

11.   Stop comparing yourself to others. You have no idea where someone else's journey might take them, so drawing comparisons is a complete waste of time.

12.   Worry less what others think. Because you can't read minds, you have no idea what people are really thinking about you.

13.    Thank the thankless. Janitors, maintenance stiff, customer support people and so forth have tough jobs. Having someone thank them is huge

14.   Take yourself less seriously. If you can't or don't laugh at yourself, I can guarantee you that everyone else will be laughing behind your back.

15.   Take a long bath. When you're in the tub, you can't use your electronics, so that's a perfect haven from work pressures.

About Clay Serenbetz

Clay Serenbetz  is the best lawyer for Legal Malpractice issues concerning professional ethics, lawyer advertising and fiduciary duties of practicing lawyers. Call Clay Serenbetz for legal help now.

Why Attitude Is More Important Than Intelligence

People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.  

Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.  

According to Dweck, success in life is all about how you deal with failure. She describes the approach to failure of people with the growth mindset this way,

Regardless of which side of the chart you fall on, you can make changes and develop a growth mindset. What follows are some strategies that will fine-tune your mindset and help you make certain it’s as growth oriented as possible. Empowered people pursue their passions relentlessly. There’s always going to be someone who’s more naturally talented than you are, but what you lack in talent, you can make up for in passion. Empowered people’s passion is what drives their unrelenting pursuit of excellence. Warren Buffet recommends finding your truest passions using, what he calls, the 5/25 technique: Write down the 25 things that you care about the most. Then, cross out the bottom 20. The remaining 5 are your true passions. Everything else is merely a distraction.

It’s not that people with a growth mindset are able to overcome their fears because they are braver than the rest of us; it’s just that they know fear and anxiety are paralyzing emotions and that the best way to overcome this paralysis is to take action. People with a growth mindset are empowered, and empowered people know that there’s no such thing as a truly perfect moment to move forward. So why wait for one? Taking action turns all your worry and concern about failure into positive, focused energy.

Everyone encounters unanticipated adversity. People with an empowered, growth-oriented mindset embrace adversity as a means for improvement, as opposed to something that holds them back. When an unexpected situation challenges an empowered person, they flex until they get results.

How Social Entrepreneurship Make Change Happen

Social entrepreneurs, Barry Coleman explains, consistently ride in that cushion, where there is plenty of potential to get ahead and just as much to slide out of control. It is a place where guts and determination are required, and where skill and expertise can pay off. Barry should know. He and his wife aren’t just race enthusiasts, they are social entrepreneurs: founders of Riders for Health, an organization that manages transportation systems for the delivery of health care in seven countries across sub-Saharan Africa.

The miserable health-care equilibrium in Africa, the Coleman’s would argue, is kept in place partly by its failing infrastructure. Too often, available medicine and equipment can’t get where they are most urgently needed. Health workers waste hours each day walking and waiting, rather than delivering care. Communities go weeks and months without meaningful access to health care, even in times of desperate need. All of these problems result from gaps in infrastructure, but it was one gap in particular that tweaked the notice of this pair of motorcycle enthusiasts: African health systems were failing because they lacked the underlying transportation systems needed for reliable health-care delivery.

It isn’t the stuff of banner headlines. But in Africa (or, for that matter, anywhere else), if reliable transportation is not part of the health-care delivery system, people die. To Andrea and Barry Coleman, the reality that they encountered — a health-care delivery system hobbled by inadequate transportation management infrastructure — was utterly unacceptable. They envision a very different equilibrium, a future transformed, in which African health ministries are equipped with reliable, affordable, and effective transportation systems that deliver the health-care services their people need, when, where, and how they need them. And it turns out motorbikes have an important role to play.