Category Archives: Personal Injury

Hand Injuries Hand injuries, whether they come in the form of bruises, breaks or cuts, can frequently be tricky.  There are a number of surgeons who hold themselves out as hand surgeons.  Many of them are cosmetic surgeons who also … Continue reading →

Hospital safety is a pressing issue especially since more than 180,000 people die every year from hospital errors.  Those errors come in a number of different forms. It is estimated that nearly 6,000 egregious errors occur every month among Medicare patients alone.  By … Continue reading →

Affordable medical care is an issue for all of us.  In particular, it can become an issue for someone who is injured.  Medical costs drive an estimated 60% of personal bankruptcies across the country. The Affordable Care Act (also called … Continue reading →

On April 17, 2013 a fertilizer plant in Texas exploded.  The fertilizer plant had no sprinklers.  It had no fire walls.  It had no water deluge system.  Safety inspections at the plant were, at best, sporadic. It so happens that small … Continue reading →

Several states across the country have been reviewing recently damage caps that have been imposed both as to compensatory awards and also punitive awards.  The challenges to these caps on damages come in several different forms.  The legal challenge may involve … Continue reading →

The scope of federal law enforcement surveillance imposes interesting questions as far as privacy rights.  A device known as “StringRay” simulates a cell phone tower and enables law enforcement agents to collect the serial numbers of individual cell phones and … Continue reading →

A physician from Stoney Brook University School of Medicine in New York by the name of Sam Parnia was recently cited in a Washington Post article of March 26, 2013 stating that there are available to medical practitioners means by … Continue reading →

Infections In 1989 17,414 British school children were studied by an epidemiologist and he concluded from them that those who had grown up with more siblings and, thereby presumably more germs, were less likely to have allergies and eczema. It … Continue reading →

Privacy rights were the subject of a recent decision from a federal court in northern California.  The court was dealing with what are called national security letters.  A national security letter is a letter issued by an FBI supervisor to … Continue reading →

Contribution is a common law concept that springs from equitable principles.  Where one wrongdoer has been sued and has been made to pay a certain amount of money to the party injured, then that wrongdoer may sue other persons who … Continue reading →