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NON-COMPETE WIN FOR VIRGINIA NURSE PRACTITIONER 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

NON-COMPETE WIN FOR VIRGINIA NURSE PRACTITIONER

I love it when another court strikes down a non-compete agreement as being overly broad and therefore unreasonable. I just love it! A friend and fellow member of the Virginia bar just sent me an article on a Virginia Beach case. According to Virginia Lawyers Weekly writer Alan Cooper “A Virginia Beach Circuit judge has…

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NORTHERN VIRGINIA NON-COMPETE LAWYER 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

NORTHERN VIRGINIA NON-COMPETE LAWYER

I am a lawyer. I was born and raised in Northern Virginia. And now I live 2 hours away. But our firm, Frith & Ellerman, is actively representing employees in Northern Virginia, who need help understanding their non-compete agreements. We can do the following for NoVA employees: review agreements you have already signed review agreements…

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EMPLOYEE WINS NON-COMPETE CASE IN VIRGINIA BEACH 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

EMPLOYEE WINS NON-COMPETE CASE IN VIRGINIA BEACH

A Virginia Beach Circuit judge has found a noncompete agreement invalid and unenforceable after a medical company sought to enforce the covenant against a family nurse practitioner who sought to start another medical business. The case is Patient First v. Blanco and was decided on February 15, 2011. The facts of the case are straightforward.…

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VIRGINIA MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ATTORNEY 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

VIRGINIA MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ATTORNEY

Our office will evaluate and review medical malpractice cases across the Western part of Virginia. When you call our office, we will ask you to share the general facts. Based on that, we may say “No, you don’t have a case and here is why…” or We may say “based on what you have shared,…

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HOME HEALTH NIGHTMARES 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

HOME HEALTH NIGHTMARES

The following is a true story. 60 something year old woman with MS needs home health after a bad exacerbation of the disease. Hires local, not-for-profit home health care agency to come in and provide services. For $21 an hour (do the math – that is expensive) home health sends various “personal care assistants” out…

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WHAT IF YOU CAN’T FIND YOUR NON-COMPETE? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

WHAT IF YOU CAN’T FIND YOUR NON-COMPETE?

If someone called me today and asked me a question about my mortgage, I could pull out the paperwork and review the terms. If someone called me today and asked me about my cell phone contract, I would be hard pressed to find any such document. I didn’t keep it. It didn’t seem to matter…

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HOW LONG DOES A NON-COMPETE CASE TAKE? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

HOW LONG DOES A NON-COMPETE CASE TAKE?

We are asked this question frequently. If my boss sues me or if I get a cease and desist letter, how long will the legal / negotiating process take? Sadly, there is no way we can answer this question. Some times, we are able to negotiate a resolution within a few days. This is when…

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VIRGINIA NURSING HOME ELOPEMENT 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

VIRGINIA NURSING HOME ELOPEMENT

We were discussing the parable of the Good Samaritan the other day and a friend told me the following actual story that had happened to her the week before: She was literally driving around our City, Roanoke, and saw a woman laying on the side of a major roadway. She had clearly fallen. Our friend…

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HOW TO CHOSE A NURSING HOME IN VIRGINIA 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

HOW TO CHOSE A NURSING HOME IN VIRGINIA

It is complicated and stressful, but necessary for millions of Americans. What is? Discussing long term care with your loved ones. What do I mean by long term care? Home health, nursing home, or other options for someone who has various health care needs. And why is it complicated? Because there are many issues from type of facility…

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TORT REFORM AND MEDICINE 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

TORT REFORM AND MEDICINE

There has been a lot of heat coming out of Washington, DC over tort reform and the need to limit what victims of medical malpractice can recover if they prove their case in a court of law. Notice I wrote “heat” as there has been very little “light” in this discussion. I especially like the…

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH v. EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS IN VIRGINIA 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

FREEDOM OF SPEECH v. EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS IN VIRGINIA

If you have read a newspaper or listened to the TV news in the last 2 weeks, you may have heard about an employee who sued her employer for wrongful discharge. Basically, the facts are:Employee (we will call her Sue) is angry at boss, employer, and goes home and logs on to Facebook and says…

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ELDER ABUSE & NEGLECT IN NURSING HOMES, ASSISTED LIVING & ELSEWHERE 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

ELDER ABUSE & NEGLECT IN NURSING HOMES, ASSISTED LIVING & ELSEWHERE

People don’t believe me when I tell them that elderly patients are often the victims of abuse, purposeful abuse, at the hands of their caregivers. I have personally spoken to families who know of sexual assault and/or physical assaults perpetrated against their loved ones in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. In the last ten days alone…

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