Recovering compensation for emergency room errors
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.
OSHA Guidelines for Temporary Workers
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 […]
The importance of a second opinion in breast biopsies
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.
Why Attorneys do not want to Work Cases Involving just Soft Tissue Injuries
You are involved in a car accident and you have suffered soft tissue injuries, and you find that most attorneys in New York are unwilling to take a personal injury case involving soft tissue injuries. Why would an Attorney Turn Down a Sparkling Case? A golden and experienced trial attorney is going to spend the […]
Is the Homeowner Responsible if You Slip and Fall on his Property
You have been invited to a party, and when you are walking around the homeowner’s property, you fall down and suffer a serious fracture. Now, the question is whether the homeowner is responsible for your injury. What caused the fall? When a person is injured on somebody else’s property, one of the key questions is […]
Can You Include the Police Report into Evidence
You are involved in an auto accident and the police officer comes to the scene to take down information. He records certain information from witnesses and now in the report, it says that the police officer believed that the accident was caused by the other driver. Can you use this information at the time of […]
Facts about Accident Cases and Quick Settlement Offers
When you file a personal injury lawsuit for claiming compensation for your losses and injuries you have suffered in an accident, usually the insurance company has to make the payment, since the defendant will have insurance coverage. For the insurance company paying claims and settlements are losses, and therefore they will do everything in their […]
Should an Accident Lawyer Visit the Scene of the Accident
Trying to Picture the Accident Scene In every type of car accident, it is critical for the accident lawyer to go to the accident scene, and to see for himself where this incident occurred. There is an important reason for this. After the accident, you the injured victim are going to consult an accident attorney and […]
Your Personal Injury Case can be Dismissed even before it Starts
You have suffered significant injuries because of an accident, and you believe you have a strong personal injury case. You start the proceedings for filing a lawsuit to claim compensation, but, before your case has a chance to move off the ground, you find out that the defense has made a motion to dismiss your […]
Lack of Informed Consent in a Medical Malpractice Case
When your doctor does not tell you that you could suffer a complication that you are suffering now after going through the medical procedure, then would that be a valid basis for filing a medical malpractice case. The answer is maybe. Lack of informed consent means failure on the part of the doctor to provide sufficient information, so that the patient can take an educated decision. However, in most instances, lack of informed consent cannot be the only basis for filing a lawsuit.