Faulty Equipment Personal Injury
Any personal injury arising out of products liability enables the plaintiff to sue the product’s manufacturer for suitable damages if he’s injured while using the product and can be the basis of faulty equipment personal injury lawsuit. This is most commonly seen in electrical gadgets with faulty wiring that have either given out shocks or […]
Personal Injury Claims for Construction Workers
As a construction worker, it’s always possible that you might be lightly or badly injured at the site because of a sudden fall or while handling heavy construction equipment. On certain occasions, it has also happened that cranes bearing heavy loads have lost control and dropped heavy items on people, injuring and disabling them permanently […]
Defective Medicines and Personal Injury
It is often seen that defective medicines too, can be a cause of personal injury when the victim consumed certain medication that resulted in the said injury. These injuries may also result from side effects or contra-indications about which the manufacturer issued no prior warning to the user. Such law suits are generally class action […]
Pedestrian Fatalities Surging
There has been a devastating increase in pedestrian accidents in recent years, with the Governors’ Highway Safety Association reporting a record increase from year-to-year in the number of people who died while walking in 2016 compared with in 2015. Every fatal pedestrian accident is tragic, and this record increase means more lives were lost and […]
Study finds skilled nursing care woefully lacking
Do you have an elderly relative living in a nursing home? Or perhaps you might have even spent time recovering from surgery or extended illness in a skilled nursing facility until you were well enough to return home. If so, the following may be of interest.
Rare disease wreaks havoc when not diagnosed
New York residents might like to know about the process involved when believing a doctor or hospital acted negligently. In one case, a $28.5 million judgment was awarded to a patient after a failure to diagnose her condition. The patient and her family filed a lawsuit against Mercy Clinic Springfield Communities because they said they begged specialists to perform diagnostic tests when she had severe symptoms of Wilson’s Disease.
NY County Tries New Technology to Reduce Distracted Driving Accidents
New York City motor vehicle accident attorneys represent clients who have been victimized by distracted drivers who cause car accidents to occur. Despite laws aimed at preventing distracted driving collisions, and despite many warnings about the dangers associated with driver distraction, motorists continue to put themselves and others in jeopardy by driving while using phones […]
Tick-borne disease could be deadly without quick diagnosis
Despite its name, people in New York and all over the country are at risk of tick-borne illnesses like Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Particularly widespread in the summer months when people camp, hike and engage in outdoor activities, they can be life-threatening for active individuals. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever has been reported all over North and South America. The potentially fatal disease is caused by a bacterium, Rickettsia rickettsia. Physicians report that there has been a slow increase in cases of the disease over the years.
Learning The Right Way to Fall Can Make Injuries Less Severe
Falls can cause devastating injuries to victims, and can sometimes those injuries can even be fatal. It is the responsibility of property owners to take steps to reduce the chances of a fall injury occurring. If a property owner is negligent in maintaining the property in a safe and effective way, this can result in […]
OSHA Reforms: Could They Work to Lower Workplace Injury Risks?
The American Society of Safety Engineers believes that the current approach to protecting employees from on-the-job accidents is not sufficient. The American Society of Safety Engineers has published an OSHA Reform Blueprint, which makes a number of different suggestions for changing OSHA that the Society believes would better prevent workplace injuries and fatalities. With understaffing […]