James G. "Jim" Hurley Jr.

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We were asked to share some information about our community involvement, and we mentioned our recent donation of $5,000 to Larrymore Elementary School for their virtual classrooms.

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Hello, my name is Maggie Jenson. I just graduated from Deep Creek High School, and I'll be attending Old Dominion University as a business major this Fall. I'd like to thank the lawyers at Cooper Hurley for providing me with this scholarship that will help me pay for the education I've always dreamed of.


Hi everyone! My name is Michael Russo, and I would like to thank Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers for selecting me as one of the recipients of the
2020 Distracted Driving Awareness Scholarship. I just graduated from Cape Henry Collegiate in Virginia Beach, and I'm now attending James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. I will be studying media arts and design
with a concentration in journalism, and I will also be minoring in honors interdisciplinary studies. This generous scholarship will help cover the expenses for my first year here at JMU. I enjoyed creating my distracted driving video, and I'm so grateful that I was chosen for this award. Thanks again to Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers for supporting me on my new adventure at James Madison University. Go Dukes!


Hey guys! Hope everyone's having a good day. My name is Mitch Corp, and this is my Thank You video to Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. The high school that I graduated from was Landstown High School, and the university that I will be attending is Regent University. The major that I will be focusing on studying is business. This scholarship really is gonna help me a lot because it's gonna help me boost the position that I wanna be in and that's to become a successful businessman in the 757 area. And I also want to get into real estate, so I'm gonna use this money towards my studies and my hard work. Like I plan on owning a lot of startups from small businesses, and maybe increase my clothing business as of now. But I really am grateful to Cooper Hurley for choosing me as a winner for my essay. And they are the best injury lawyers in the 757.


Hello there! My name is Alex Chau, a recent graduate from Helix Charter High School in La Mesa, California. This Fall I will be majoring in civil engineering studying at San Diego State University. I would like to thank the Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers for supporting our education and providing me with this wonderful opportunity to succeed in higher education. This scholarship would go towards tuition, books, and fees at my university, and I'm really grateful for this wonderful opportunity and privilege. I hope to hear from you all soon, and thank you very much, once again.

Hi everybody! Cassidy Lewis here with Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. And I have two of our friends- Ms. Williams and Mr. Faircloth- from Larrymore Elementary.


Mr. Faircloth, could you tell us a little bit about your school?


Well, Larrymore Elementary School is a Title I school, Norfolk Public School. We have Pre-K through 5th grade at Larrymore; we have about 600 students. We have an amazing program there; we're fully accredited now for the 8th straight year. Working really hard just to trying to adapt and navigate the new virtual classroom.


Absolutely. Talk to me a bit about what that virtual classroom is gonna look like this year, Ms. Williams.


Well, the virtual classroom is gonna be very new to all of our teachers, all of our students, and our parents, so we're encouraging of all our parents to reach out to our teachers as much as possible, and also, it's gonna be on Zoom for the first nine weeks, at least, so, making sure that they get on and they actually sit in their classrooms. The teachers have created instruction for them via Zoom, so it's gonna be daily Zoom lessons prepared for them.


And our teachers have been working really hard all summer; they pretty much gave up their summer to do a lot of professional development to try to navigate the new virtual world, as it's a brand new role in education.


Wow- right; absolutely. So, at the start of the year, and today's the 1st day of school, At the start of the year, and really, before the year got started, how did you prepare students? Did they have everything that they needed, or what?


Well, it's been- it's been an adventure as I call our theme for Larrymore is a "Different Times Adventure 2021," and so, What we did when we got out March 13th, it's been about six months ago, and so we started to navigate; we worked on creating a lot of instructional things to get the kids through the year, we did a device pickup about halfway through that, so a lot of our students were able to pick up Chromebooks and MiFi devices. And so, as we evolved through the summer, we let them keep those, because we just weren't sure what the new year was gonna bring. So, sure enough, we're virtual. So, the students that kept theirs- they were good, and we We started the process again. So just last week, we had three long days of device checkouts, MiFi checkouts, as well as supply pickup. So this year what we did for supplies, instead of asking parents for supplies, the schoolhouse provided the supplies, so we got backpacks for every student in every grade level, and tried to- we're just trying to make this process as easy and flexible as we can, and want to thank the parents and all our staff members for being so flexible and understanding through this whole ordeal.


Now friends, if you don't know, here at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, we have made a commitment to education- especially our Norfolk Public Schools. So my friends actually came by today to pick up a check for $5,000 to help you guys with your new virtual classrooms, to assist your students in whatever else you may need it for. Thank you guys so much for everything that you do for our students, for our families here in Norfolk; we've been in Norfolk. We got started here. We have 8 locations, but this is our headquarters. So we love Norfolk and we thank you all.


Thank you. We love you. And I have to give a shoutout to our Assistant Principal, our brand new Assistant Principal, Ms. Williams. We're overjoyed, and this is gonna be such a great benefit for our kids.

Goodmorning, my name is Nicole. Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers would like to congratulate Maggie on being awarded $2,000 from our Distracted Driving Awareness Program. Everyone here at the firm wishes you the best of luck at your first year at ODU. Thank you for entering the program!



I'm Jim Hurley with Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, and I'm very proud to announce a scholarship for $2,000 to Michael Russo who gave us some information on why you should never be driving and be distracted. So, we'd like to congratulate Michael Russo at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, he will be going to James Madison University, a fine school, so congratulations on going to James Madison University. And at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, we're so happy we can give back to the community, and specifically, to Michael, $2,000, to help him with his educational endeavors. And we thank everybody in the community for helping support Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. And congratulations, Michael!



Hey, this is Griffin O'Hanlon with Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. And I wanted to take a second this morning to congratulate Mitch Corp on being awarded $2,000 from our Distracted Driving Awareness Program as a scholarship. We wish Mitch the best of luck in his first year at Regent University next year. So, best of luck, and congratulations!



Bill O'Mara. I'm one of the attorneys with Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. I'm excited to announce one of our Distracted Driver Awareness Program scholarship recipients is Ronnie Anderson. He'll be receiving $2,000 as he begins college this fall at Virginia State University. We're proud of you, Ronnie. Ronnie's a graduate of Indian River High School, where he played football. I also went to Indian River High School, many years ago, and played football. So, I was excited to see his application, and excited to see him win one of these awards. We're still big supporters; we go to the games still; I take my daughters on Friday nights. Best of luck to you, Ronnie. We know you're gonna do great at Virginia State, and keep in touch, Go Braves!



Hi, everybody! Cassidy Lewis here with Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. This year, we have given away $10,000 in scholarships. Congratulations to all of our scholarship winners, especially Mr. Alex Chau, who is attending San Diego State University. Alex, we wish you the best of luck this year. Please keep us updated with all your progress. Thank you!

We help people when they've been injured, and oftentimes, people are injured at hotels, restaurants, businesses, and if you're injured at a hotel or a restaurant or a business, especially in a hotel, these are some of the steps you need to take: there's three main things you need to do.

Number one: you need to make a formal complaint with the place where you were injured so they have it documented that you were injured.

Number two: you wanna take out your cell phone and go ahead and take a video of the area and go ahead and take appropriate photos so that way we know exactly how it looked and exactly what injured you at the time it happened. Don't expect the hotel to do that; don't expect the restaurant to do that, but you can do it, or a friend can do it, depending on how badly injured you are.

The third thing, and really the most important thing is is that you've gotta get medical treatment for your injuries. Oftentimes, people will injure themselves at a hotel or they'll slip and they'll fall and they'll cut themselves and they'll feel terrible, but they'll think, "Hmm, I don't need any medical treatment- I don't want any medical treatment- but believe me- if you don't seek the appropriate medical treatment,
and it turns out you're seriously injured, a month, two months later, that hotel's insurance company's gonna say, "Sorry- injury not related." So it's important to get the proper medical follow-up care.

At Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, we help people when they've been injured like this. So please, touch base with us.

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I'm injured in a car accident, and I need a lawyer. How do I pay for that lawyer?

I'm Jim Hurley of Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers; when you're injured a car accident, at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, there's no money upfront that you have to pay. Our fee is based on the total amount of your recovery. Moreover, any cost advance, like filing a lawsuit, getting experts, getting medical records, we advance all of that- so there's no money out of your pocket.

People are often confused about that, so what we've done at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, when you go to our website: cooperhurley.com, we have information on there exactly how we work our pricing and our cost advance. And at the end of the day, we want to help you get what you deserve for the injuries you've suffered through no fault of your own. And the key thing is, there's no money upfront that you need to pay us to hire us and to get that result- for you!

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[Jim Hurley] I'm Jim Hurley of Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, and recently Daniel Jarman and myself gave a continuing legal education seminar on great tips when you're negotiating with insurance companies. Daniel has a huge experience with that. Dan, I want you to talk a little bit about the three top tips in trying to negotiate on a personal injury settlement with an insurance company.

[Daniel Jarman] I would say the top tip would be to know who you're talking to on the phone, whether it be a low level insurance adjuster who has very little in the way of settlement authority, or somebody that has the ability to make the decisions on their own. Knowing who to talk to can yield more money.

Number two would be: know the punitive damages and know how
to back that up to build your case moving forward.

The third key would be making sure early on that you're in communication with the insurance companies when it comes to their reserving issues.

[Jim] Daniel, talk a little bit about the reserves; a lot of people aren't familiar with that.

[Daniel] I would say reserves are how an insurance company faces their books so they know they have enough money set aside to settle all claims and still remain profitable. They use phone calls to gather more information. On each phone call they're trying to figure out, "Do we have enough money set aside?" If you use that to your advantage to get it to the higher level adjusters who have much more discretion when settling cases, it is to your advantage to get that file moved early on but as part of the negotiations, even though you haven't
built your demand package yet.

[Jim] And Daniel has worked for the insurance company, the dark side, the other side, for years and years and years and now he's helping Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers negotiate their files. So, we hope these tips maybe can help you when you have a personal injury case.

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Virginia, each and every year, has thousands of motorcycle accidents, and because of those motorcycle accidents you have thousands of injuries. People- when they're driving in their cars or their trucks- often don't pay attention to motorcyclists. They merge into traffic with the motorcyclist right next to them because they're in the blind spot. They make a turn right in front of the motorcyclist so the motorcyclist has to lay down the motorcycle- has no other option.

Here at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, we help injured motorcyclists each and every day and each and every week. Often times, the injuries from a motorcycle crash can be horrific- days, weeks in the hospital, months of recovery, broken bones.

So let us help you if you you've ever been injured in a motorcycle wreck because of some other driver here in Virginia not paying attention. That's what we do at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, and let us help you. That's what we would like to do.

There are terrible drivers out there on the road. Every single day, every single week, people are driving, they're talking on their cell phones, they're looking at texts, they're not paying attention. What happens? Boom! Car wreck. Here at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, that's what we do- we help people that have been in car wrecks through no fault of their own. And we deal with everything- the initial investigation, we take care of. Dealing with the other person's insurance company- we take care of. Handling all aspects of the case- we take care of. We do that because we want you to get better. We want you to focus on going to the doctor's, going to physical therapy, making yourself feel better from the injuries you've suffered.

At Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, that's what we do, we take care of all the legal aspects of your case so we can help you at the end of the day, and then you can focus on what's really important- your health. So please, give us a call, contact us, let us help you.

Jim Hurley of Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I've been practicing personal injury law for over 20 years, and I've lived in the area since the early 1990's. I'm married to a wonderful wife and I have two children, a boy and a girl, that currently are in college.

Throughout Norfolk and surrounding areas, including Virginia Beach, I feel very comfortable in helping people when they've been hurt car accidents, motorcycle wrecks, truck accidents, and any serious injury or wrongful death. That's what I do here at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. That's what we do- we don't practice any other law. We help people when they've been injured through no fault of their own. What makes us so different and what makes us so special is that we do that day in and day out; our lawyers do that day in and day out; I do that day in and day out; our staff works because we want to help people and do the absolute, top-notch, best job we can for that person.

So much of our business is referral-based because we do a good job for somebody, we do a good job for someone's family member, and it's referral based because they refer their friends and their family so we can help them as well. That's what we do at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. We help people when they've been injured.