Is it Required to Put the Settlement on the Record
In a personal injury case that is settled during the course of a pretrial conference, is it required to put the settlement on the record, in open court. Do You need to Put Settlement on the Record? To answer if it is required, no it is not required. However, is it considered a best practice […]
Can Falling out of Bed be Grounds for a Medical Malpractice Case
A patient falls from the hospital gurney in the emergency room, suffers a fractured shoulder and the hospital blames the patient for this since the patient was told to stay in bed. Can this be grounds for a personal injury or a medical malpractice case?
Can You File a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit if the Patient willfully Drank Drano
Facility for Psychiatric Patients
How does a Medical Malpractice Lawyer become Reimbursed for Expenses
In your medical malpractice case in New York, why does your attorney have the ability to be reimbursed for his expenses throughout the course of your litigation?
Showing a Document to Jog the Witness’s Memory
A lawyer shows the witness a document to refresh his memory about something that the witness claims he cannot remember. This type of technique is used when a witness, especially a doctor does not remember something about an event or about a conversation that may have occurred previously. Information may be contained in a document or in a medical record that might refresh the doctor’s memory.
Stage I vs. Stage IIIB Breast Cancer in a Medical Malpractice Case
By the time a woman was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was Stage IIIB. Had she been correctly diagnosed and treated a year earlier, she may not have developed this advanced stage of cancer. Can this be a basis for a medical malpractice case?
What does a Lawyer Look for in a Potential Medical Malpractice Case
If you feel that you have suffered harms and losses due to the negligence of a doctor or a hospital staff, you should consider claiming damages by filing a medical malpractice lawsuit. However, when you approach an attorney, he will be looking at your case from his own viewpoint to decide whether he should accept it. Hence, these are the four important aspects a lawyer will be looking at, when a client approaches him with a potential medical malpractice case.
What is an Expert Witness Reply in a Medical Malpractice Case
What is an Expert Witness Reply?
Truckers: Hours Without Sleep
A very serious and important issue that traffic safety advocates are constantly faced with is the issue of truck driver fatigue. A fact sheet from the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety shows that truck crashes lead to more than 5000 fatalities and injure approximately 150,000 people each year. Driver fatigue raises the risks of […]
Preventing birth injury in oversized babies
Soon-to-be parents in New York may be interested to learn that a study out of Switzerland recommends inducing labor at around 37 or 38 weeks in women who are pregnant with unusually large babies. According to the researchers, while there are dangers involved when inducing labor before 39 weeks, they are offset by the advantages of delivering the baby early when the baby is very large.