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Looking at the Impact of Spinal Injuries

In any type of injury case, there’s going to be complicated research. Along with the broad questions concerning the context of an accident and how it happened, every personal injury case is inherently complicated by the sophistication and elaborate architecture of the human anatomy. Before they even start to resolve a case based on third-party liability, injury lawyers need to understand certain physical facts about a case. Here are some of the common and fundamental issues that have to be addressed in a spinal injury case.

Source of Impact

One of the biggest questions concerns the source of an impact. The answer to this question is one that will have direct application to the responsibility of parties to provide compensation. Where did the impact come from? Was it from a flying object with a certain velocity? Was it from β€˜body to body’ impact? Was it from the impact of a motor vehicle collision, and if so, what contributed to the velocity of the vehicle? Looking at these questions, you can see that professional injury attorneys have to break down an accident into its raw physics, and in such cases, they must do so with relatively little direct information about that accident. Like detectives, they don’t explore one of these scenarios on the scene as it happens. They do it after the fact with the information that’s available.

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Can the Jury Ask for a Clarification from the Judge Germane to his Legal Instructions

It is the end of your medical malpractice trial and the attorneys have made their closing arguments. Now the judge locks the courtroom door, and gives the jury an hour’s worth of legal instructions that they have to follow in order to reach a decision on this case. However, what happens if the jury does not truly understand all of the judge’s instruction? Can they ask the judge to clarify some of those guidelines?

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Human behavior-related surgical errors

New York patients should be informed about the potential consequences of major surgical errors. These are often called ‘never events” because they should never happen, but they still do. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic identified 69 of these ‘never events” among 1.5 million invasive procedures that were performed over the course of five years at the Minnesota facility and detailed why each one occurred. The researchers identified characteristics that led to the never events as organizational, environmental and individual, and they discovered that 628 human factors contributed to the surgical errors. Around four to nine errors occurred per event.

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