How to Navigate Conditional Payment Resolution
Medicare conditional payments are a persistent challenge for personal injury firms resolving cases for Medicare beneficiaries they represent. If a client is a Medicare beneficiary, you’re automatically dealing with the Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSPA). The stakes are high. A
Lien, Subrogation, or Reimbursement: The Distinction Every Trial Lawyer Must Understand
Three legal mechanisms attach to personal injury recoveries and confusing them costs your client money and exposes your firm to malpractice risk. Here is how trial lawyers and paralegals should classify, defend, and resolve each one.
When a personal injury
The Human-in-the-Loop Playbook: Integrating AI With Your PI Firm Without Losing Staff Buy-In
Plaintiff firms often hit a ceiling because of operations, not casework. Strong verdicts hide weak systems, until Why the firms winning with legal AI are not the ones with the most tools, but the ones who brought their teams along.…
Marina Bradley: How to Scale a Personal Injury Law Firm Without Breaking It.
Plaintiff firms often hit a ceiling because of operations, not casework. Strong verdicts hide weak systems, until volume forces every weakness to the surface. Marina Bradley, Executive Director at Ostroff Godshall Injury and Accident Lawyers, sat down with …
The Section 111 Penalty Era Has Started. It Is a Plaintiff Problem, Not an Insurer Problem.
Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 requires liability insurers, no-fault insurers, workers’ compensation carriers, and self-insured entities to report settlements, judgments, and awards involving Medicare beneficiaries to CMS. The reporting captures the beneficiary’s identity, …
Inside Michael McCready’s playbook for trial lawyer operations, AI adoption, and law firm scaling.
Most personal injury firm leaders confuse two questions. Are we winning cases? Are we running a healthy business? They are not the same question. And the firms pulling ahead are the ones who stopped pretending otherwise.
In a recent episode …
Why Lien Resolution Is So Challenging for Personal Injury Law Firms—And Why It Matters
For personal injury firms, achieving a settlement or verdict is only half the battle. The real work isn’t finished until every lien is resolved. Yet lien resolution remains one of the most daunting aspects of personal injury practice. It is
Why Lien Resolution Isn’t Your Firm’s Core Competency—and Why Outsourcing Matters
Personal injury firms excel at what they were built to do: securing justice by proving liability, telling their client’s story, and getting the best possible settlement or verdict. Yet once the dust settles, another challenge arises, resolving liens.
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