Can Doctor’s Prior Cases Impact the Present Case
Can a doctor’s prior bad act come into play in your medical malpractice case in the state of New York?
Can a Doctor Lose his License when Sued for Negligence
You have suffered significant injuries because of the carelessness of a doctor, and you have brought a medical malpractice lawsuit against him. You know that the doctor has violated the basic standards of care, which has resulted in long time injury or even disability.
A Causal Link between Wrongdoing and Injuries is Vital in a Medical Malpractice Case
In order to win your medical malpractice case, why do you need to show that there is a connection between a violation of basic standards of medical care and your injuries?
Disk Degeneration and Accident Trauma
A major problem with accident cases involving spinal injuries concerns the process of differentiating traumatic injury from other types of gradual wear and tear on the body that can have similar symptoms, manifest in similar ways and exacerbate one another. Experienced injury lawyers know that there’s always the challenge of identifying a cause-and-effect chain with respect to spinal health conditions and they look closely at whether a traumatic impact had a significant influence on such conditions.
The Difficulty With Diagnosing Cervical Pain From Degeneration and Injury
Spine-Health.com provides some clues as to the difficulty of directly diagnosing and treating traumatic impact of the spine. The article first discusses how certain parts of the spine can be damaged and cause cervical pain after traumatic impact. It goes into detail about these injuries, but also provides this disclaimer: “A full review of cervical fractures is beyond the scope of this article.” The article also discusses another clue with respect to the relationship of traumatic impact of the spine and natural aging conditions, stating “It should be noted that trauma to cervical vertebrae occurs less often than cervical pain and other symptoms resulting from changes that occur with aging, such as the development of bone spurs in the neck and cervical osteoarthritis.” The article then goes on to describe bone spurs and symptoms.
Brooklyn Neighborhoods Lower Speed Limit to 25 MPH
For many of those who go to take their first driving test, posted speed limits might seem to be pretty straightforward. But experts who really deal with traffic safety, such as local New York City personal injury lawyers, understand that there’s a lot more in play than just a posted speed limit or even a […]
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 […]
