Can You Bring a Retired Medical Expert to the Stand
Gary Silverstein
March 30, 2015
Is there a danger of bringing in a medical expert who has retired from the practice of medicine?
Is there a danger of bringing in a medical expert who has retired from the practice of medicine?
Why is it critical for a trial attorney to anticipate the legal issues that are going to arise during the trial? On top of this, to have a trial brief prepared-ready for the judge during trial?
When a patient is given the wrong medication, he can suffer considerably and even die. Such a person who has suffered significantly due to the wrong medication prescribed or given to them can file a medical malpractice lawsuit and claim compensation for this error and the ramifications stemming from it.
What is a Hi-Low Agreement?
Usually most cases have a jury trial, but it is possible to have a non-jury trial for your medical malpractice case in New York. When your case comes up and it is just about to be put on the trial calendar, you have the option of checking off one of two boxes which say jury and non-jury trial. In correlation with this scenario, it is up to you, whether you want to open the door to a jury trial, or you would like only a judge to listen to your case and pass judgment.
A major problem with accident cases involving spinal injuries concerns the process of differentiating traumatic injury from other types of gradual wear and tear on the body that can have similar symptoms, manifest in similar ways and exacerbate one another. Experienced injury lawyers know that there’s always the challenge of identifying a cause-and-effect chain with respect to spinal health conditions and they look closely at whether a traumatic impact had a significant influence on such conditions.
The Difficulty With Diagnosing Cervical Pain From Degeneration and Injury
Spine-Health.com provides some clues as to the difficulty of directly diagnosing and treating traumatic impact of the spine. The
For many of those who go to take their first driving test, posted speed limits might seem to be pretty straightforward. But experts who really deal with traffic safety, such as local New York City personal injury lawyers, understand that there’s a lot more in play than just a posted speed limit or even a general “10 miles over” rule that so many drivers use to stay relatively safe from ticketing and citations. In fact, what’s legal is the posted speed limit — but even law enforcement professionals understand that the flow of traffic is often significantly higher than what is posted. This sets up
With hundreds of thousands of patients passing through every year, emergency rooms in New York can be busy and hectic places. Although there may be many patients in serious condition who come in at once, each individual patient is still entitled to receive proper care and treatment by emergency room staff.
Temporary workers are some of the most vulnerable front-line workers in America’s high-risk industries. Particularly in tough physical industries like construction and even when their participation is mainly unskilled, for example, in construction clean-up or materials transport, temporary workers need to be protected by the full power of the law to make sure that they don’t suffer from exposure to improper workplace hazards. The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) provides some handy guidelines for the use of temporary workers in construction, manufacturing or anywhere else they serve employers in a workplace. An OSHA guide called “Protecting Temporary Workers” starts with a quote
Women in New York might be concerned about a recent breast biopsy study. Getting a second opinion after a breast biopsy has become more critical since the subject has been studied extensively and the findings show that specialists often misdiagnose them. This is according to a study that was published in an issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association on March 17, which included 240 breast biopsy specimens and 115 U.S. pathologists.
