legal funding companyGetting a pre settlement funding to use while injured due to an accident caused by an errant driver, will help alleviate worries over payment of hospital bills and other expenses. Although sometimes called a lawsuit loan, the legal funding company that granted the pre-settlement funding will get paid only if there is already a judicial ruling on who is at fault or an extrajudicial (out-of-court) settlement regarding the accident. Yet in the event the court decided the supposedly errant driver is not at fault, the complainant who received the pre settlement funding or lawsuit loan is not required …
Author: Paden Kegan
House Reps. Introduce TICKET Act to Force Ticket Sellers to Disclose Base Price and Fees
US lawmakers recently introduced the TICKET Act, which aims to force ticket sellers to display upfront and at point of sale, all fees imposed as charges. The bipartisan bill formally titled as “Transparency In Charges for Key Events Ticketing” (TICKET) Act came around after the sale of Taylor Swift’s Era Concert Tour became “the last stroke that broke the camel’s back” so to speak. The TICKET Act forces ticket sellers and brokers to indicate the ticket base price and all the additional charges that increase the cost of a ticket. Such information must also be shown in events advertisements and …
Is a College Degree Still Worth All the Trouble?
Recent surveys report that more employers are realizing that a 4-year college degree isn’t the best gauge of an applicant’s real value as a potential worker. That being the case, three educational institutions namely: Miami Dade College, Dallas College and Western Governors University, have launched an initiative to define and to establish individual skills that a broad range of employers consider as important. That way, providing education will either separate or combine relevant course work as requirements for earning a college degree. Apparently, there is a need for colleges and universities to overhaul the kind of college education programs being …