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Scaffolding Injuries and How New York Scaffolding Injury Attorneys can Help You

Scaffold injuries Construction workers and the construction industry in general have a plenitude of perils to address on a day-to-day basis. Construction workers are injured by: Falling debris Breaking scaffold platforms Slips & falls during inclement weather conditions Injuries due to falling equipment & heavy-duty machinery Breaking ladders, pulleys Construction workers sustain injuries while working on scaffolds, hoists, pulleys, wooden/concrete blocks, steel reinforcement wires/cables, ropes, hangers, ladders, slings and such devices/equipment. Usage of Scaffolds Steel scaffolds are strong and safe. While wooden scaffolds are prone to damages due to weather and repeated use, steel scaffold can resist weather changes, can stay in place without change

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Injuring Your Eye on the Job – A Legal Case

A workplace accident could lead to a serious eye injury. You or your loved one may be eligible to a settlement for the pain and suffering. Call our New York eye injury attorneys to discuss your legal rights and options. The Threat is Real A direct blow to the eye can damage the eyeball and injure the soft tissues around the eye. A serious eye injury could jeopardize your normal life and lead to health, work and social life disturbances. Your ability to work and earn could be affected because of loss of vision in one or both eyes, due to an accident. This could

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Think You have a Claim? Allow us to Evaluate

Our personal injury lawyers have the knowledge and experience to help you determine the basis of your claims

Building a personal injury case can be tricky. The foundation upon which a case is builtβ€”the basis of your claimsβ€”is critical. It helps determine the nature of the evidence you need to gather, the stand you have to take in court, and guess the defenses. So it is imperative that you hire the services of an experienced personal injury lawyer who will analyze the details of the accident and determine the basis of your claims accurately.

We, at RMFW Law, have been practicing law in New York

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What are the Typical Defenses in a Personal Injury Case?

If only we could read the minds of other people! Unfortunately, not many people can be read like books, nor do they speak out and let others know about their intentions. If you are planning to file a personal injury lawsuit, it helps if you know about the likely defenses the defendant might claim to wriggle out of the case. You can be better prepared and gather relevant evidence that will bust their claims and boost your chances of securing a favorable outcome in your case. The following are the typical defenses in a personal injury case in New York that RMFW Law handles with

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New study looks at how to diagnose MELAS

Individuals in New York who have a disease called MELAS might be interested to learn that the Chinese Medical Journal has published a study that looks at the current methods of diagnosing the disease. MELAS is a mitochondrial disease, which tends to be rare, but among mitochondrial diseases, it is one of the more common ones. Because symptoms can vary from person to person, it is also frequently misdiagnosed. The prognosis for a patient with MELAS improves with an early diagnosis.

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Seeking Compensation for a Failed Diagnosis

The human body is complex and medicine does not have all the answers yet. Diseases can throw up confusing symptoms and a myriad of tests have to be carried out before your doctor makes an accurate diagnosis of your condition. Sometimes the test results prove to be inconclusive and your doctor may be compelled to treat you on the basis of your symptoms.

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Proving Negligence During an Emergency

Emergency medical situations are chaotic, and you know that even if you have never watched any episode of ER or Grey’s Anatomy (though you may have fallen asleep watching the latter show). The medical personnel-doctors and nurses-have to race against time to treat a patient. They don’t have the luxury of time to order a full suite of diagnostic tests to determine the nature of the patient’s problem, so they have to rely on their hunches sometimes.

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Securing a Site: It’s More Than Just Hard Hats

For those who have a responsibility to provide safety for construction workers on the job, the processes they face are a lot more complex than most people might think. The average person tends to think about workplace safety in a way that’s similar to what’s shown on television — you see people putting on hard hats and simply strolling onto a job site. In reality, though, providing for public health and safety is a much more difficult and extensive process than just offering hard hats or even other types of personal protective equipment. Evaluating Airborne Worksite Hazards Some types of safety provisions on jobs relate

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