Although patients in New York rely on the expertise of their doctors and other health care providers, they should still take steps to protect themselves from medical mistakes. Researchers consistently find that misdiagnosis is the leading category of medical error.
Too many business owners do not take the time to evaluate the physical properties that they use to offer products and services to consumers. The problem of the absentee owner contributes to many preventable accidents around New York City and other areas simply because no one takes on the responsibility of keeping business locations safe. Although these kinds of problems exist even in large chain businesses or franchises, they are often more evident in small local businesses without corporate oversight. Regardless of the industry or profession, every business leader has to keep the customer’s safety, as well as the safety of visitors, at the forefront
The city of New York has an enormous amount of infrastructure. An array of bridges and tunnels serve millions of people going into or out of the five boroughs. Anyone who is at all familiar with New York City geography knows about using the George Washington Bridge, the Verrazano, the Triborough Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel and other critical corridors for local traffic, and they likely know and appreciate how to travel them, as well as how they work to direct traffic through the metro area. So how does the local government work to manage this extensive traffic system? One way is by posting routine alerts
Legal Obligation of Drivers Every driver is required to know what the rules of the road are. For instance, they need to know what a yield sign means and looks like, they are required to know that they should not drive in the bike lane, not change lanes without signaling, and so on. Drivers are required to see what is there to be seen. Now if you are careless or distracted because you are doing something else, not paying attention to the traffic and to where you are going, and you smash into a car in front of you, you have serious problems. Your situation
When you have filed a personal injury case, and your doctor agrees to come and testify on your behalf at trial, do you have to pay him? The answer is yes, you will have to pay your doctor to come in and testify. It would be sort of selfish to assume they will spend a day or two in court and not receive some type of financial compensation.
Judgment Call a Common Defense
In your medical malpractice trial in New York, where there are many details and facts that the jury needs to know and consider, should your lawyer give a two-hour opening argument at the beginning of the trial?
You have suffered a significant fracture of the femur in an accident, which is the biggest bone in the body, and you have filed a personal injury case to claim compensation. Your case has come all the way to trial, and now during jury selection, one of the jurors tells your lawyer that he has suffered the same type of fracture, but his injuries were not permanent.
A patient suffers serious injuries when a surgery becomes a catastrophe. The doctor on the other hand, argues in his defense that he has never encountered a complication like this before, and therefore he should not be held accountable for it happening in this instance. Can the patient’s lawyer object to this during the trial? Can the plaintiff’s lawyer prevent the doctor from telling this to the jury?
Some people like to keep a diary, a log, or a journal, and they note down their innermost or private thoughts in it. They write things that motivate them or things that are troubling them that nobody else sees. Now, suppose you keep such a diary, and during the course of your medical malpractice lawsuit, you windup recording details about your injuries and how they have affected you.
