Ferry Accidents – Appropriate Legal Care for Your Recovery
New York City witnesses a plethora of boat accidents that involve ferries, cruises, water taxies, jet skiing, and various other recreational activities undertaken across the New York waterways every year. Those involved in such watercraft accidents are often subjected to catastrophic impacts such as bone fractures, brain injuries, paraplegia or quadriplegia, hypothermia, serious lacerations, or […]
Grab some Financial Relief for Your Losses from an Excavation Accident
New York City’s industrial regulations and norms are built to extensively protect workers in excavation sites. They mention extensive shoring and bracing requirements for trenches and excavations in order to prevent a collapse. They also require employers and site owners to provide workers with adequate safety and protection gear, quality tools and excavation machinery to […]
Failure to Diagnose Brain Aneurysm can have Fatal or Permanently Disabling Consequences
Brain Aneurysm
Failure to Diagnose Congenital Heart Disease Constitutes Medical Malpractice
Congenital Heart Disease in Infancy
Failure to Diagnose Scoliosis can Lead to a Permanent Deformity
What is Scoliosis?
Mismanaged Cellulitis can Lead to Life-threatening Complications
What is Cellulitis?
Osteomyelitis caused by Surgical Errors is Medical Malpractice
Osteomyelitis is a chronic condition that infects the bone. The infection may travel through the bloodstream or spread from a nearby tissue and attack the bone. It may originate in the bone directly, if the bone was exposed to germs by an injury.
The harmful and wasteful consequences of misdiagnosis
Doctors in New York City and across the nation are devoted to providing consistent and correct aid to the patients they serve. Unfortunately, even skilled and ethical physicians can commit errors in diagnosis at times. Not only do such mistakes have the potential to cause serious patient harm; they also lead to massive wasted health care expenses as patients receive proper treatments for ailments that they don’t actually have.
Fastening, Weight and Fall Protection: The Three-fold Requirement for Scaffolds
Under the specific terms of New York’s labor law, scaffolds have to meet various criteria in order to be considered safe. Lack of proper safeguards leaves a company liable in various kinds of work injury situations. Because New York law has its own unique and stringent rules on scaffold work injuries, it’s easy for companies […]
Screening changes in prostate cancer may affect early detection
New York residents who are concerned with recent changes in recommendations for breast cancer screening might want to consider the latest statistics related to another cancer screening scenario. The instances of prostate cancer screenings were more frequent prior to a change in recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. In 2012, the group announced that there might be more harm than good coming from systematic screening for prostate cancer. Among the issues of concern was the fact that most cancers being detected were slow-growing. In fact, more men died of other issues after a diagnosis of prostate cancer than actually died of prostate cancer at the time of this change.