What to Do If You Have a Recalled Toy
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So you look on the recalled toy list and find out that half your child’s toy-box is filled with lead. Now what? Read the rest of this entry »
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Where to Learn About Medmal Laws and Regulations
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Where to find information about medical malpractice (medmal) laws and regulations:
International legal consultation for pharmaceutical life science companies
Limiting Tort Liability for Medical Malpractice
Medical Malpractice Law at Rutgers
Topics: Medical Malpractice |
Failure To Make a Statute of Limitations Deadline
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An attorney’s failure to meet the deadline on a Statute of Limitations could be cause for a legal malpractice lawsuit if it resulted in a negative verdict for the attorney’s client.
In all civil lawsuits, including personal injury and malpractice claims, there are certain deadlines call “statutes of limitations” that must be met. Missing one of the deadline dates could result in your claim being thrown out, in which case you would be forfeiting your future right to file for damages as well. Read the rest of this entry »
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What Is a Power of Attorney POA?
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Have you been asked to sign a Power of Attorney (POA) and are unsure what it is, or what rights you are giving the person who has asked you to sign? What is a power of attorney anyway?
A Power of Attorney is a letter that authorizes one person to act on someone else’s behalf in legal and/or business matters. Read the rest of this entry »
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What Is Personal Injury Law?
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Personal injury lawyers deal with lawsuits brought to court by those who have been injured as a result of someone else’s negligence. Some examples include auto accidents, medical malpractice, slip & fall (premises liability), pharmaceutical side effects, defective products, and wrongful death cases. Read the rest of this entry »
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Are Military Hospitals Providing Substandard Care?
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Patients treated at military or veterans hospitals and medical facilities have the right to the same high standard of care as any American at a civilian hospital or medical facility in this country. While active duty military personnel do not have the right to any compensation for malpractice by military doctors, the government can be held financially liable for malpractice committed against military dependents resulting injury or death.
Topics: Medical Malpractice, The Personal Injury Section |
Gastric Bypass Surgery Mistakes
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Approximately 300,000 people in the United States die each year due to complications from obesity. Obesity is a cause of premature death second only to premature death from cigarette smoking. Obesity has been recognized as a chronic disease since 1985 and approximately one-third of all Americans are obese. Read the rest of this entry »
Topics: Medical Malpractice, The Personal Injury Section |
Injuries Sustained at Birth Can Often Last a Lifetime
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A birth injury is any damage sustained during the birthing process, most often occurring during transit through the birth canal. A difficult birth or an injury to the baby may occur because of the baby’s size or the position of the baby during labor and delivery. Birth injuries may occur, also, if the birth canal is too small or the fetus is too large (this sometimes occurs when the mother has diabetes). The rate of birth injuries is much lower than in previous decades, but birth injuries do still happen and the results can often be devastating to the life of the child. Read the rest of this entry »
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Surgical Errors Are on the Rise
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The number of surgical mistakes made in the United States each year is alarmingly high. Many, if not all, of these surgical errors could be avoided. Some surgical mistakes are just too hard for families to believe, such as performing surgery at the wrong site (wrong leg, arm etc.). When we enter an operating room as a patient, our lives are in the hands of our surgeon, and we trust them to perform our surgery without making errors, especially ones as egregious as operating on the wrong limb or cutting into the wrong area to remove a tumor. Read the rest of this entry »
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Failure to Diagnose Heart Attacks
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Every year in the United States, 7 million people go to hospital emergency rooms complaining of chest pain or other symptoms that suggest they might be having a heart attack. A missed heart attack diagnosis garners the highest malpractice payout among all medical malpractice cases. Read the rest of this entry »
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