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When β€œLook Both Ways” Isn’t Enough

You’ve probably heard it since you were a kid — β€œLook both ways before you cross the street!” And if you’re a parent, you know it’s true: a kid who takes heed to the advice and warnings given will avoid traffic, while a more headstrong, impetuous youngster might feel like he or she needs to occasionally dart out into the street without holding an adult’s hand. But what public planners understand (and what most injury lawyers know) is that there is a lot more to pedestrian safety than just having people look out for oncoming traffic. Crafting Pedestrian Safety Infrastructure A major part of pedestrian

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Can An Expert Witness Charge Exorbitant Fees?

Here is a scenario for a medical malpractice case: the victim claims his orthopedist violated the basic standards of medical care, which resulted in significant injuries for him. During the course of litigation, the defense refused to negotiate, which meant the victim had to seek a trial to determine the truth.

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Time to Go Home? Secure the Site

We all know what it feels like at the end of the workday — people shrug off the remaining minutes, eager to get home and be done with that long shift. In the mad rush, far too many contractors fail to consider safety options for the next day or the day after when all that needs to be done is to secure the construction site and prepare the tools and materials for storage. It isn’t just a question of a carpenter leaving some sawhorses in an alley or some masonry workers leaving blocks scattered around an open lot. There’s a bigger question of responsibility here.

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A High Volume of Subway Riders Means More Safety Planning in the Works

According to new reports for 2014, subway ridership is up in the Big Apple.Β  That means more focus will need to be placed on safety implementation for all of the possibly dangerous situations that New York City residents and visitors can face on trains and on or around depots. Reports from news outlets like Fox New York show how more people are using the city’s subway system than at any point in the last 65 years. With New York City Metro authorities noting a 1.7 billion ridership number for 2014, experts point out that that number represents a 2.6 percent increase from the year before.

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Surgical errors still occur in spite of preventive protocol

New York patients facing surgery might deal with worries about their outcomes, especially in light of the fact that errors are possible. Although Universal Protocol was introduced just over a decade ago in an effort to reduce the occurrence of serious errors, there are still a significant number of never events, which are surgical errors that are considered to be preventable. A recent study grouped them into three primary categories, including surgical fires, leaving a foreign object in a patient and operating on the wrong site.

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Can Your Past Affect the Outcome of Your Court Case

You have some Skeletons in Your Closet There is something in your past that does not look good, and that something you know is going to come out during the course of your personal injury case. What can your attorney do, to minimize the effect of what happened to you in the past is not going to destroy your case or your credibility. Something bad happened to you in the past, and you know that if the jury finds out, it could destroy your credibility. Secondly, the defense knows about this and he is going to do everything possible to tell the jury about it.

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