You know the drill. You click “agree,” sign your name a couple of times and walk away with a new cell phone, cable tv service or a new credit card. Congratulations, you may have a new whatever but you’ve also likely signed away your rights to go to court if there’s ever a problem. Lurking […]

It’s astonishing, sometimes, how adjusters twist every fact to find an excuse to deny our client’s cases. It has nothing to do with reality – just any reason to deny a claim.  This week has had a remarkable number of examples of how injured people can’t win the insurance game if they just rely on the […]

Wisconsin history is on our side with this one. In 1911, our legislators passed the nation’s first Worker’s Compensation program. It was pretty heady stuff back then. For the first time, workers who were injured or got sick on the job had insurance coverage which could bridge the econmic gap until they went back to […]

In early April, voters will go to the polls to decide whether to change a key part of Wisconsin’s constitution – how the Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is chosen. Under Wisconsin’s constitution, the Chief Justice is chosen objectively; we the people choose the members of the high court. Importantly, theJustice with the […]

This opinion piece authored by Atty. Ann Jacobs was featured in the Milwaukee Journal on January 3, 2015.     When most of us think of government, bureaucracy is usually one of the first words that comes to mind. Any government agency is rife with stories of bureaucrats wasting taxpayers’ money. Except for one. News that […]