Feb 5, 2019 | Bad Faith Insurance, Car Accidents, General topics, Landowner Rights & Environmental law
In the last article, we covered the differences between First-Party and Third-Party insurance claims. In this article, we will look at the implications of doing both at the same time. Can you get paid under your own policy and also make a claim on a third-party...
Feb 5, 2019 | Bad Faith Insurance, General topics, Landowner Rights & Environmental law
So you suffered a loss. Maybe it was a car wreck, or a hail storm, or maybe it was a large scale fire to your ranch. There are many different types of losses for which people buy insurance. In many instances, when another person or entity may be responsible for...
Jan 31, 2019 | Landowner Rights & Environmental law
Wild fires are a serious issue in Oklahoma, especially western Oklahoma during the early months of the year. The humidity gets real low, there is a lack of moisture in the air, everything dries out, the land is arid, flat, and often plagued by cedar trees, creating...
Feb 5, 2018 | Landowner Rights & Environmental law
By: Peter Boettke, Ph.D. “The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.” –Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. Why are the benefits of Private Property...
Jan 29, 2018 | General topics, Landowner Rights & Environmental law
Pictured above: Kayla Petsch, Travis C. Smith, and Larry Finn, after winning a $1 million verdict against City of Del City on October 25, 2017 in a hotly contested condemnation case. (Del City only offered $450,000 to condemn the property). The Importance of Property...
Oct 26, 2017 | General topics, Landowner Rights & Environmental law
OKLAHOMA CITY – October 25, 2017, an Oklahoma County jury awarded over $1 million to the owners and mortgagee of a condemned strip club property in Del City. The property, nearly an acre in land size, had a desirable location along Interstate 40. But Del City claimed...