No Legal Requirement for Medicare on Settlement Checks

Many insurance companies are insisting on putting Medicare as a payee on settlement checks. As Clayton Starnes of The Plaintiff’s Resource points out in the following piece there is no legal requirement for Medicare to be made a payee on settlement checks. “There is a misconception among payers of personal injury settlements that Medicare, by…

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State v. Mann

This morning, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that under our state’s law, the plain view exception to the warrant requirement has three elements. These include: 1. The police officer must be lawfully in the viewing area. 2. The officer has to discover the evidence ‘inadvertently,’ meaning that he did not know in advance where…

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