15-Legal-Advice

A Health Care Power of Attorney (POA) is a document that appoints someone else to make decisions regarding your medical care. The person you appoint is called an “agent”. Having a Healthcare POA allows you to plan in advance your directives concerning your healthcare before you are in the situation where those directives are actually needed. The goal of this document is not to allow the agent to impose their own opinions about what should happen to you, but to have you spell out your own wishes and have the agent simply carry those wishes out.

Your agent is activated if your health declines and you are unable to make your own decisions. You should give your Health Care POA to your healthcare provider and one to your agent so that the document is accessible if needed.

Choosing your Health Care POA Agent:

Someone you trust and knows you well including your religious beliefs

Someone comfortable speaking to your physicians and overseeing your care

Choose one person to act at a time rather than joint agents to avoid conflic

In addition to other matters, Your Healthcare Power of Attorney may cover these issues:

Healthcare POA’s may terminate with a certain date or event or may continue indefinitely. Contact an attorney in your state to determine which duration of POA would best suit your needs.

1. Whether or not you would want to be put on life support;

2. Whether or not there is any medical treatment that you have

a religious objection to;

3. If you are a pregnant women, whether or not you are giving a directive with respect to the priority of care between yourself and your unborn child;

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Power of Attorney

Coral Pleas, Attorney

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Attorney Coral, is a seasoned trial attorney with over 15 years of civil trial experience. The firm was founded in 2005 with the fundamental belief that it is impossible to be too focused on excellence. Our goal is to provide the most aggressive, efficient, cost effective representation for both our insurance industry clients and our individual clients. Our law firm's motto is "Quality Service. Quality Results."

In 2005, Ms. Pleas was appointed to the Milwaukee County Personnel Review Board by former Milwaukee County Executive, Governor Scott Walker. Ms. Pleas currently serves as President of the Board.

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Automobile Liability Defense; Premises Liability; Coverage Issues; Subrogation; Uninsured and Underinsured Motorists Coverage, Trial Court Briefing and Aggressive Motion Practice; Serious Personal Injury Claims.

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Juris Doctorate, Law at Marquette University Law School

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Comparitive Negligence:

For instance, a jury may award $100,000.00 to a plaintiff and conclude that the defendant was 80% responsible and the plaintiff 20% responsible. The damage award would then be reduced by 20%, leaving plaintiff with a recovery of $80,000.00.

At the settlement negotiation stage, insurance companies do not usually speak in terms of percentages of fault. Rather, the settlement offer will take into account, and reflect, any negligence on the part of the plaintiff. In responding to such a settlement offer, the partly responsible plaintiff must take his or her own negligence into consideration when determining whether an offer is reasonable.

In those states that recognize the defense of “contributory negligence,” a plaintiff’s own negligence (even if minor) will bar him or her from recovering any damages at all.

Contributory negligence is similar to the doctrine of assumption of the risk and in some states is even referred to as “voluntary assumption of the risk.” The difference between the two doctrines is that assumption of the risk assumes that the defendant had no duty of care towards the plaintiff by virtue of the inherently dangerous nature of the activity. In contrast, under the doctrine of contributory negligence, the defendant owes a duty of care toward the plaintiff, but the plaintiff’s own actions negate the possibility of recovering damages from any other at-fault party.

In some states, if an injured person is also partly to blame for his or her injuries, the defendant may raise a defense known as “comparative negligence.” Under this doctrine, a plaintiff’s own share of the blame for his or her injury does not relieve the defendant entirely of liability. Rather, the plaintiff’s own negligence serves to reduce the amount of damages that he or she may ultimately recover. At a trial, the fact-finder (usually a jury) is asked to assign a percentage of fault to each parties’ actions. The plaintiff’s damage award is then reduced by that percentage.