How to File a Domestic Violence Lawsuit
As many as one out of three adolescents have allegedly gone through violence while dating. Apart from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, many teenagers and young adults are also exposed to “digital” abuse. A recent study reveals that about 10 percent of adolescents claim to have been under threat by means of IM, email, chat, […]
Preventing medication errors
New York patients should know that an estimated 7,000 people around the country die annually due to medication errors, and a total of about 1 million errors happen each year in U.S. hospitals. In one 2016 case, an 87-year-old woman was rushed to the emergency room due to a high fever, and her sister gave the ER doctor the woman’s medical history and a list of the medications she was on including some that had been recently added for cognitive issues.
How Changes to Road Designs Could Reduce NYC Traffic Deaths
Last year, despite efforts to reduce the number of pedestrian deaths, there were high fatality rates in New York. City Limits, for example, reported that for the first 13 days of November, a pedestrian died every single day in the city as a result of an accident with a bus or car that was traveling […]
Sexual Assault and Personal Injury Laws
According to a survey done by the US Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization (NCVS), an average of 293,066 people (aged 12 and above) in the country are victims of rape and sexual assault each year. This means that one sexual assault occurs every 107 seconds. Nearly 6 out of 10 sexual assault/rape incidents are […]
Repetitive Strain Injury and Personal Injury Claims
Statistics show that repetitive strain injury (RSI), also known as work related upper limb disorders (WRULD), is increasing at an alarming rate in the workplace. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), approximately 1.8 million workers are affected by RSI per year. One government study puts the annual RSI cost between $17 billion […]
Hysterectomy and Medical Malpractice
Hysterectomy is the second most common procedure among women in the United States. More than 22,000,000 have had a hysterectomy. According to 2011 Women’s Health Stats from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), over 500,000 hysterectomies are performed annually and 33.3% women will have this procedure by the age of 60. In 2008, 18% of all hysterectomies were performed as outpatient surgeries.
Risk Management and Medical Malpractice
It is projected that the health care employment sector, employment will increase 19% from 2014 to 2024, adding about 2.3 million new jobs, which is more rapid than the average for all occupations considering policy killing jobs and high taxes are in effect and making this recession last much longer than it should have. Occupations in health care will add more jobs than any other industry but the job growth here would be much greater if the ACA was never passed and America was kinder to the private sector.
Drunk Driving and Personal Injury
One of the biggest problems in the United States is drunk driving. Nearly 30 people die every year in an automobile accident that involved a driver drinking alcohol. That means that there is approximately one death every 48 minutes. According to the CDC, there were 9,967 deaths caused by driving crashes that involve alcohol in […]
Residential Property and Premises Liability
In a recent article in the New York Times, whether by choice or by circumstance, millions of Americans are renting rather than buying homes. According to the Rental Protection Agency, the United States has approximately 110,000,000 renters and approximately 23,000,000 landlords. There are more than 2,600 new renters every day. And, according to the New […]
Workplace Fatalities on the Rise
Workers in New York have faced a higher-than-normal risk of dying on-the-job in recent years. In fact, New York Daily News recently released a troubling report indicating that the number of workplace deaths across all industries in the city in 2014 was the highest it has been in six years. The increase was dramatic, with […]