How to Prove Fault in a Personal Injury Claim in New York
To prove fault in a personal injury claim in New York, you have to first determine who is the guilty party in the incident that injured you or caused you to sustain damages in any other way. But it is easier said than done because proving liability depends on you being able to provide fool-proof […]
Coverage Under New York Workers Compensation Law
According to the website of the New York State Compensation Board – employees are entitled to insurance and benefits per the terms of the New York Workers Compensation Law. Employers in the state of New York are required to contribute to the insurance and benefits for every employee that they employ. It is mandatory that […]
Hospitals implement strategies to reduce malpractice lawsuits
New York residents may be surprised to learn that 12,000 people died in 2014 while undergoing unnecessary surgical procedures and a further 7,000 deaths were caused by medication errors. Medical mistakes and hospital negligence lead to approximately 85,000 medical malpractice lawsuits being filed every year. Some hospitals are adding extra layers of oversight and implementing stricter safety protocols to both protect patients and avoid lawsuits.
Exposure and Injury Law
Sometimes, injury lawyers get cases that don’t fit the boundaries of what we commonly think of when we think about workplace injuries. When considering the “average” workplace injury, people tend to think of injuries that are immediately evident, such as contact with falling objects or a trip and fall accident where someone falls over materials […]
The Clock is Running – Time Limits on NY Injury Claims
Injury victims often seek guidance from personal injury attorneys to help them deal with different kinds of legal obstacles and challenges. Some issues are obvious, but others are completely unknown to the client until they sit down in their attorney’s office. One important challenge is the time limit for dealing with workplace injuries or any […]
The future of recorded surgical procedures
Although negative outcomes can be among the risks one faces during surgery, most patients expect to survive their procedures without serious or fatal results. Still, some patients may worry about these risks as they prepare. New York legislators have proposed a bill requiring the presence of cameras in operating rooms based on the case of a 19-year-old woman who experienced both respiratory and cardiac arrest after anesthesia errors occurred. A similar bill has been proposed in Wisconsin because of an anesthesia error that led to the death of a 38-year-old woman.
Safety Considerations at Intersections
We tend to think of pedestrian intersection accidents in very simple and specific ways: If a driver operates a motor vehicle in an irresponsible way and hits a pedestrian because he or she wasn’t looking out for people crossing the intersection, the driver is responsible for the injuries sustained by the pedestrian. However, in reality, […]
Was the Company Truck Properly Maintained?
In any kind of heavy vehicle accident, people tend to look first at the driver. Was the driver under the influence of any substances, legal or illegal? Did he or she have too much to drink before an accident? What was his or her mood like at the time of the accident? Did anything big […]
Don’t Wait on a Concussion
Anytime someone sees an accident occur, there’s the difficult question of how to respond. Some types of accidents seem relatively minor — a person sustains a bit of a blow from a falling object, bumps his or her head on a fixed installation or falls from a certain height — and the individual appears to […]
Maternal death rate on the rise
It might be nerve-racking for pregnant women in New York to know that the maternal mortality rate in the United States has increased since 1990. In every 100 live births prior to the 1930s, almost one woman died from related complications. This rate had steadily declined by 1987 to fewer than eight maternal deaths out of 100,000 births. Between 1990 and 2013, however, 18.5 women out of 100,000 giving birth died.