Mismanaged Cellulitis can Lead to Life-threatening Complications
Gary Silverstein
November 27, 2015
What is Cellulitis?
What is Cellulitis?
Osteomyelitis is a chronic condition that infects the bone. The infection may travel through the bloodstream or spread from a nearby tissue and attack the bone. It may originate in the bone directly, if the bone was exposed to germs by an injury.
Doctors in New York City and across the nation are devoted to providing consistent and correct aid to the patients they serve. Unfortunately, even skilled and ethical physicians can commit errors in diagnosis at times. Not only do such mistakes have the potential to cause serious patient harm; they also lead to massive wasted health care expenses as patients receive proper treatments for ailments that they don’t actually have.
Under the specific terms of New York’s labor law, scaffolds have to meet various criteria in order to be considered safe. Lack of proper safeguards leaves a company liable in various kinds of work injury situations. Because New York law has its own unique and stringent rules on scaffold work injuries, it’s easy for companies or contractors to be held liable for a case where someone falls from an unsupported or insufficient scaffolding setup. Experts identify three precise requirements for scaffolding setups on a construction site. Fastenings One of the key rules on scaffolding is that scaffolds need to be securely fixed or fastened to
New York residents who are concerned with recent changes in recommendations for breast cancer screening might want to consider the latest statistics related to another cancer screening scenario. The instances of prostate cancer screenings were more frequent prior to a change in recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. In 2012, the group announced that there might be more harm than good coming from systematic screening for prostate cancer. Among the issues of concern was the fact that most cancers being detected were slow-growing. In fact, more men died of other issues after a diagnosis of prostate cancer than actually died of prostate cancer
Not many of the injured victims who come in to speak with experienced injury lawyers understand categories and levels of injury as applied in New York state labor law. The fact is that there is a certain threshold for specific kinds of injury claims and cases that go beyond the usual workers’ compensation claim. Up to a certain threshold of injury, a worker is not allowed to sue an employer. The case must be pursued in relation to general workers’ compensation benefits systems. However, a certain category of injury known as “grave injury” is treated differently. In these types of cases, third parties are sometimes
There’s been a lot of controversy over the years about the New York scaffolding law, also called “New York Labor Law 240.” It’s something that most people outside the field aren’t very familiar with, but it ends up being a big deal in terms of workplace liability for New York construction workers. What Does the New York Scaffold Law Do? Experts explain the New York scaffolding law as putting “absolute liability” on contractors and companies that employ construction workers. Instead of factoring in contributing fault on the part of the worker, the scaffold law keeps the burden of liability on the employer or the party
According to a new study, cardiac patients in New York and nationwide are often misdiagnosed with an aspirin allergy and taken off of aspirin therapy without ever being tested by an allergist. This means that many patients needlessly lose the benefits of an effective and inexpensive cardiovascular treatment that has few side effects.
A New Yorker who slips and falls in a hospital may end up suffering bruises, broken bones and other injuries. Hospital slip-and-fall accidents may fall under medical malpractice in certain cases, while in others, they may be able to proceed under a theory of premises liability.
It’s not uncommon for New York courts to really get into the details of a scaffold case or other work injury case. Victims and their families should be aware that certain kinds of scaffolding injuries and other workplace injuries are protected under New York Labor Law 240, which is also sometimes known as the “Scaffold law.” Courts have to look at specific details of cases to figure out whether or not they fall into the category of protected cases defined by Labor Law 240. A Case Involving Stilts Take, for instance, a particular 2006 case where a worker was wearing stilts that elevated him above
