Safety and Health Reporter
- Legal Precedents Addressed By Injury Lawyer
- Posted on March 7, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Legal precedents are simply cases that have been previously reported by either an appellate court or a trial court that create some precedent or in some cases binding case law.
In July of 1839 a ship full of 53 African slaves known as the La Amistad was wracked with rebellion as ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Healthcare Finance
- Posted on March 6, 2013 by Brien Roche
- The field of healthcare finance is becoming an attractive domain for some very big players. Companies such as General Electric and other big finance companies have found they can make money by stepping into the somewhat murky world of healthcare finance wherein they purchase debt that is owned by hospitals ...
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Posted in Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury
- Prostate Surgery Medical Malpractice
- Posted on March 2, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Prostate surgery medical malpractice typically is focused on the performance of prostate removal and the sometimes untoward results.
A more basic analysis may be necessary as to whether the surgery should be performed at all.
The need for surgery has traditionally been traced back to PSA results. The PSA historically has been ...
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Posted in Medical Malpractice
- Teenage Wrongful Death
- Posted on March 1, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Teenage wrongful death is on the rise based on some figures from the year 2012. The 2012 figures are compared to the year 2011, which was a low point in teenage highway deaths so the figures may be somewhat misleading. In any event, what is reported in a Washington Post article ...
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Posted in Auto Accident
- DNA Privacy Issues
- Posted on February 28, 2013 by Brien Roche
- The U.S. Supreme Court is currently confronted with some DNA privacy issues that oddly enough have put all 50 states and the District of Columbia in bed together. That is, all 50 states and Washington, DC actually agree on the policy of taking DNA samples from certain persons that are ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Heart Savers Discussed By Medical Malpractice Attorney
- Posted on February 26, 2013 by Brien Roche
- With the prevalence of heart disease in the United States, there are what might be called some "heart savers" that are procedures that are now being utilized to save lives among those people who suffer from heart disease.
One of those procedures is what is called "heart regeneration". When a heart ...
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Posted in Medical Malpractice
- Obedience to Law
- Posted on February 21, 2013 by Brien Roche
- There is a general principle in Virginia that obedience to law is presumed. That is the party bringing a civil claim along with the party who is being sued is assumed to have to complied with the law. In one 1989 Virginia Supreme Court case, a defendant in a civil ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Attractive Nuisance
- Posted on February 20, 2013 by Brien Roche
- The concept of Attractive Nuisance deals with instruments that are known to be attractive to children, the instrument is known to be dangerous to children and is in a location where children conceivably could have access to it. Although the general principle may have some application in Virginia ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Concurrent Negligence Explained By Accident Attorney
- Posted on February 19, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Concurrent Negligence is a principle in Tort Law which indicates that where the negligence of two (2) defendants concurs to cause a single injury, then both defendants may be liable. As to the arguable negligence of each defendant, there must be some factual predicate that establishes that.
The issue of concurring ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Winter Heart Attacks
- Posted on February 7, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Winter heart attacks are not just a coincidence. According to a study published recently in The Washington Post, there is a constellation of factors that converge during the winter that make the likelihood of a heart attack greater during the winter season as opposed to summer season. It is not ...
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Posted in Medical Malpractice
