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Exposure and Injury Law

Sometimes, injury lawyers get cases that don’t fit the boundaries of what we commonly think of when we think about workplace injuries. When considering the β€œaverage” workplace injury, people tend to think of injuries that are immediately evident, such as contact with falling objects or a trip and fall accident where someone falls over materials and sustains injuries such as lacerations, bruises and broken bones. Other types of injuries are more abstract, more comprehensive and come from much more subtle sources. Experienced injury attorneys know how to tackle these cases also by using different methods of fact-finding and documentation. The Continual Aspect of Exposure Some

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The Clock is Running – Time Limits on NY Injury Claims

Injury victims often seek guidance from personal injury attorneys to help them deal with different kinds of legal obstacles and challenges. Some issues are obvious, but others are completely unknown to the client until they sit down in their attorney’s office. One important challenge is the time limit for dealing with workplace injuries or any other types of personal injury cases, such as slip and fall incidents. The state of New York has something called a β€˜statute of limitations’ for personal injury liability. The statute of limitations in such cases is generally three years. This is important because after this time, New York courts may

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The future of recorded surgical procedures

Although negative outcomes can be among the risks one faces during surgery, most patients expect to survive their procedures without serious or fatal results. Still, some patients may worry about these risks as they prepare. New York legislators have proposed a bill requiring the presence of cameras in operating rooms based on the case of a 19-year-old woman who experienced both respiratory and cardiac arrest after anesthesia errors occurred. A similar bill has been proposed in Wisconsin because of an anesthesia error that led to the death of a 38-year-old woman.

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Safety Considerations at Intersections

We tend to think of pedestrian intersection accidents in very simple and specific ways: If a driver operates a motor vehicle in an irresponsible way and hits a pedestrian because he or she wasn’t looking out for people crossing the intersection, the driver is responsible for the injuries sustained by the pedestrian. However, in reality, most injury lawyers know that the above simplified statement often doesn’t tell the entire story and a number of other factors can play into such accidents. One such factor concerns the issue of infrastructure maintenance and how well a municipality and its business partners provide safe passage for large numbers

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Was the Company Truck Properly Maintained?

In any kind of heavy vehicle accident, people tend to look first at the driver. Was the driver under the influence of any substances, legal or illegal? Did he or she have too much to drink before an accident? What was his or her mood like at the time of the accident? Did anything big happen in his or her life prior to the shift? Was he or she trained to handle specific situations? In reality, though, it’s not always fair to put all of the scrutiny on the driver. There are often other parties in play — people who have responsibility for helping to

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Don’t Wait on a Concussion

Anytime someone sees an accident occur, there’s the difficult question of how to respond. Some types of accidents seem relatively minor — a person sustains a bit of a blow from a falling object, bumps his or her head on a fixed installation or falls from a certain height — and the individual appears to be okay shortly afterwards. However, there are other considerations that many people leave out of the equation when they start thinking about how to respond to an observed accident, particularly with respect to the legal ramifications that really make immediate medical testing a big priority. Litigation After the Fact At

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Maternal death rate on the rise

It might be nerve-racking for pregnant women in New York to know that the maternal mortality rate in the United States has increased since 1990. In every 100 live births prior to the 1930s, almost one woman died from related complications. This rate had steadily declined by 1987 to fewer than eight maternal deaths out of 100,000 births. Between 1990 and 2013, however, 18.5 women out of 100,000 giving birth died.

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Do You need a Personal Injury Lawyer?

A personal injury can happen in many ways. It could be a road accident, a theft, a robbery, a medical malpractice issue, or damage due to unhygienic work conditions. They can go beyond ordinary physical wounds. Your physical capabilities or appearance can get diminished for a long time or even permanently. You have every possibility to lose your job. It is difficult to figure out the value of such injuries. The Main Point The severity of an accident and the compensation is determined on the basis of your medical bills, the type of injuries you have, and expected time period for recovery. The fatter the

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My Building Floor is Always Wet!

Prior to speaking with a personal injury lawyer, some injury victims have a mistaken belief that every case is relatively the same and simply having evidence of injury automatically triggers compensation. However, victims should understand that resolving such issues is not as easy as they may think. There are many factors involved in the context of an injury case that must be considered in order to determine the likelihood of obtaining a successful outcome. It’s not enough to just say that β€œthis happened here.” In fact, under federal, state and local law, there are things that injury lawyers have to present in court to support

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What do I have to Prove in a Medical Malpractice Case?

Medical malpractice lawsuits can stretch on for days on end if you don’t have all the pieces of evidence-documents, testimonials, medical reports, and the bills-ready and strung together in a watertight case. Knowing what you have to prove in a case helps you gather relevant evidence and improves your chances of obtaining a desirable outcome.

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