Can You Claim Compensation for Minor Damages
When you file a personal injury lawsuit, the injuries and losses you have suffered should be significant or permanent. For instance, people who have suffered serious injuries in the recent Amtrak derailment accident have a strong case, and they are most likely to recover reasonable compensation. However, payouts to all victims put together cannot be […]
Does the Jury need to know if You are in Pain Now
In your personal injury trial, why does the jury need to know if you are in pain now, during the course of the trial? What have Your Problems been from the Time of the Incident? It could be an accident case, or a medical malpractice case, either way the jury wants to know if you […]
Looking at the Impact of Spinal Injuries
In any type of injury case, there’s going to be complicated research. Along with the broad questions concerning the context of an accident and how it happened, every personal injury case is inherently complicated by the sophistication and elaborate architecture of the human anatomy. Before they even start to resolve a case based on third-party liability, injury lawyers need to understand certain physical facts about a case. Here are some of the common and fundamental issues that have to be addressed in a spinal injury case.
Source of Impact
One of the biggest questions concerns the source of an impact. The answer to this question is one that will have direct application to the responsibility of parties to provide compensation. Where did the impact come from? Was it from a flying object with a certain velocity? Was it from ‘body to body’ impact? Was it from the impact of a motor vehicle collision, and if so, what contributed to the velocity of the vehicle? Looking at these questions, you can see that professional injury attorneys have to break down an accident into its raw physics, and in such cases, they must do so with relatively little direct information about that accident. Like detectives, they don’t explore one of these scenarios on the scene as it happens. They do it after the fact with the information that’s available.
Can the Defense Lawyer Ask the Plaintiff Lawyer what the Case is About
Complaint and Summons
Can the Jury Ask for a Clarification from the Judge Germane to his Legal Instructions
It is the end of your medical malpractice trial and the attorneys have made their closing arguments. Now the judge locks the courtroom door, and gives the jury an hour’s worth of legal instructions that they have to follow in order to reach a decision on this case. However, what happens if the jury does not truly understand all of the judge’s instruction? Can they ask the judge to clarify some of those guidelines?
Amtrak Crash Shows Terrible Results of High Speed Derailments
An Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, PA injured more than 200 people and killed 8 in mid-May. The grisly details and pictures of this major accident have been posted on national news venues for the last few weeks. The conductor, who survived, is suing the company after major injuries. Reports show that Amtrak 188 from Washington […]
Human behavior-related surgical errors
New York patients should be informed about the potential consequences of major surgical errors. These are often called ‘never events” because they should never happen, but they still do. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic identified 69 of these ‘never events” among 1.5 million invasive procedures that were performed over the course of five years at the Minnesota facility and detailed why each one occurred. The researchers identified characteristics that led to the never events as organizational, environmental and individual, and they discovered that 628 human factors contributed to the surgical errors. Around four to nine errors occurred per event.
Rosenberg, Minc, Falkoff & Wolff Attorneys Win Top Verdicts Awards
There are many successful attorneys and law firms throughout New York and the rest of the country. However, when it comes to the top levels of success in 2014, the New York Law Journal has named two attorneys from the firm of Rosenberg, Minc, Falkoff & Wolff. Gary Silverstein and Arthur Tisi were recognized as […]
Central Park and Beyond: Bike Paths and Their Role
In general, it’s difficult to protect bicyclists from the flood of other motorized traffic that often shares the same portions of roadway. The disparity in size, power and weight is so great with more vehicles contending for space in already congested areas. Bike paths are designated safety solutions that many are heralding as a new […]
Injury Liability: Items Left Out on Sidewalks
In an urban community like New York City, injury lawyers must consider the real risks people face on a daily basis. Many of these are related to the busy, congested streets that residents have to navigate in all five boroughs and around the general metro area. In a sense, evaluating public health and safety involves […]
