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Truck Accident Related Personal Injury Claims: How are they Unique?

Injuries caused by truck accidents appear very similar to injuries caused by car accidents involving the same four decisive factors in personal injury casesβ€”negligence, fault, injury, and damageβ€”but truck accident related injury claims are governed by numerous extra federal and state laws. If you must file a personal injury lawsuit against a truck driver or trucking company in New York state, then make sure you select a personal injury attorney who has considerable expertise and experience in handling personal injury claims related to truck accidents. Legal procedure for truck accident claim’s settlements Truck accident related personal injury claims generally involve many of the same issues

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Personal Injury for Victims with Broken Bone Injuries

Although broken bones or fractures are relatively common incidents in most peoples’ lives, sometimes, these apparently common incidents can become serious problems if they hinder the ability to earn and get on with daily life alone. Permanent physical damages due to fractures may amount to getting special equipment installed in your home or car to be able to function normally.In case of compound fractures or multi-limb fractures, the situation can be more complicated, the extreme case being that you become dependent on others for life! The highly serious or complicated fractures are usually caused by a terrible accident and there is usually one or more

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Damage Claims for a Head Injury: Settlement or a Lawsuit?

A head injury can be as trivial as a tiny bump or as serious as an excessive internal hemorrhage leading to brain damage. The brain damage from a head injury can have terrible consequences like complete behavioral changes, memory loss, or abnormalities that hinder your daily life. When you suffer a reasonably serious head injury in the state of New York, you have the choice of a settlement to save the time and trouble associated with litigation, or filing a personal injury case against the guilty party to legally recover the damages. Though if you choose the former you are probably costing yourself some serious

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Personal Injury Laws for Damage Settlements in Burn Injuries

Burn injuries, for the permanent nature of damages that it leaves on a burn victim, attracts more severe damages, when compared to other extreme types of personal injuries. Severe burn injury victims endure a life of β€œliving dead,” fighting deep social stigma and isolation for the rest of their lives. Thus, the negligent parties responsible for sever burn injuries are generally treated as β€œhighly negligent,” parties, and therefore worthy of some excessive punishment. Punitive damages for perpetrators of burn incidents Generally, in a severe in a fire incident, whether the fire was caused intentionally or inadvertently, the guilt of the parties involved and the extent

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Injured on a yacht? Filing a Personal Injury Case

Imagine yourself on a yacht on the bay or out in the NY/NJ Bight (coastal Atlantic), out on a New Year’s celebration party! The party tunes wild and people start enjoying the music and dancing, and then suddenly out of nowhere, a speeding boat hits your boat and the whole party turns into a nightmare. When you are a passenger on a yacht that is in a terrible accident, deciding whom to sue for personal injuries can be difficult if it is more than one person. When you are someone’s guest in a New Year’s party, you could be on good terms with that person,

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Gathering Evidence in a Pedestrian Accident: The More the Better

The nature of a pedestrian accident in New York City is usually such that an accident victim needs to acquire all the necessary evidence within the first few days if he or she is planning to file a personal injury case. If the affected injury victim does not feel fit enough to complete these tasks alone, he or she should get the help of a friend, family member, or colleague to finish all the necessary tasks as quickly as possible: Identify and locate eye witnesses and take their contact information for future legal purposes. Document all the details of the accident memory – data, time,

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C-section rates and dangers

A cesarean delivery can result in a long recovery period for a mother, but there are cases in which this procedure may be medically necessary to protect the life of either the mother or the child. C-section rates in New York and throughout the country are significant, higher than the rate deemed to be ideal by the World Health Organization. WHO indicates that the ideal rate for surgical deliveries is between 10 and 15 percent, but a study published in the Journal of American Medical Association suggests that 19 percent is better. The study used information from more than 50 nations and data from numerous

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Cancer Misdiagnosis: The Legal Challenge

With over 12% cancer cases being misdiagnosed in the US, the deadly disease becomes even more difficult to treat after delayed diagnosis! In many cases, delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis of cancer malpractice, the defendant doctors can try to establish that an early diagnosis and treatment would not have made any difference to the patient’s condition, thereby countering a medical malpractice claim.

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Medical Malpractice in NY Hospital’s Recovery Rooms

Following a surgery, a patient may be moved to the hospital’s recovery room if the medical staff thinks it is necessary to do so. In the recovery room, the patient is allowed to recover from the surgery, for example, while waiting until the effects of the anesthesia disappears.

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