Passenger Accident Claims – What to do After a Car Accident
None of us ever want to get into a car accident, but most people are fairly confident they know what to do in such an event. First, you ensure your own health and safety, then that of [...]
Mediation and Settlements in Personal Injury Cases
Many professions use specialized shorthand and jargon to convey complex internal concepts. In some instances, these words are the same as common phrases and sayings but with new meaning attached. First, let's discuss the term "mediation". Mediation [...]
Factors Behind Rising Workers’ Compensation Claim Payouts
Sometimes the silver lining found in the midst of a problem is a boon. Other times, it’s lightning waiting to strike. The payouts in workers' compensation claims are on the rise with more and more reaching the [...]
How Medical Device Defects Can Lead to Malpractice
Medical science, coupled with space age materials, has been making replacements for ever more delicate parts of the body. When these medical devices are well manufactured and installed properly, they add years of life and a range [...]
What Are the Different Damage Types in Personal Injury Cases?
While it’s true that a personal injury case hinges on establishing liability, it isn’t the only deciding factor in valuing your case. It is also important to know to what extent each party played a part in [...]
How Does Age Impact Workers’ Compensation?
Age affects many aspects of the working world. Some of those aspects reflect trends in population growth, others in increased longevity. Within the world of workers' compensation costs and payouts, age impacts the bottom line of companies [...]
Delays and Complications During a Personal Injury Trial
Effectively fighting in court, much like fighting in other aspects of life, takes a great deal of preparation. The time between filing a suit and waiting for your day in court is fraught with slights and pitfalls. [...]
The Rising Risk of Birth Injuries During Triage
Resource scarcity has always been a component of medical care. In the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, shortages in supplies, space, and staff have made birth injuries during triage more common. Emergency rooms and instant-care clinics [...]
Malpractice Related to Vaccines
With vaccines for COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2) rolling out, many people wonder about their safety and what they can do if they choose to get a vaccine and something goes wrong. A prevailing myth about vaccines is that [...]
Hospital Errors Can Cause Cerebral Palsy
The birth of a child is a joyful event looked forward to with delight and anxious anticipation for months, sometimes years, beforehand. Many nights are spent reading pregnancy and parenting books, nurseries are meticulously painted and decorated, and [...]
Why Workers’ Compensation Claims Get Denied
Workers’ compensation claims seem simple enough to most people. If you’re injured while on the job, you get to sue your employer, right? While you can certainly file the lawsuit for that reason, it might not necessarily [...]
The Peaks of Medical Malpractice: Fewer Claims, Bigger Mistakes
Trends in medical malpractice claims and payouts are promising. For the past 20 years claims for smaller settlements have dropped by 55%. It’s not all good news, though, claims for larger settlements have been going up. Today, [...]
Under Construction: Personal Injury Near Worksites
Numerous jobs contain risk and dangerous elements. Those who work in these jobs receiving training about risk aversion to function safely in their professions. But what of those that end up risk adjacent? It is not enough [...]
Handling An Accident When At-Fault Party Has No License or No Insurance
Some people worry that they will someday be in an auto accident with an unlicensed or uninsured driver. Both conditions offer unique challenges for getting compensation for injuries and damage to the victim of an accident. When [...]
Nutrition and Diet in Elder Care
It’s easy to undervalue the importance of nutrition on a day-to-day basis. You rely on your body to tough it out when you skip breakfast, work through lunch, or make dinner a few slices of old pizza. [...]
“Who’s at fault?”- Determining Negligence in Personal Injury Cases
One of the more difficult questions in a personal injury case is “who is at fault?” Deciding this question is the bulk of an injury claim with the remainder focused on to what extent and questions of [...]
Going Under: Risks of Anesthesia
Nothing in the medical world comes without some element of risk. The entire practice of medicine is guided by a principle of minimizing harm because of this. The human body is a massively interconnected set of systems [...]
Court Delays and Limitations in Personal Injury
In these unprecedented times, courts have limited resources for both civil and criminal matters, at times they get overwhelmed and cases face delays. How do those delays impact the statute of limitations on personal injury cases? For [...]
Hedging Bets: Malpractice From Delayed Treatment
Nobody likes to wait or be kept waiting. An expectation of timely service exists at the core of almost any business. For medical professionals, delays go beyond bad service and enter into the realm of medical malpractice. [...]
Onset of Physical Birth Injuries
It’s difficult to contemplate the horror a mother faces in finding out her child has been injured during the birth process. Second to that is the dread that any complication during labor may reveal future issues. This [...]