When driving a passenger vehicle in and around the Philadelphia area, you’re likely to find yourself in close proximity to commercial trucks. While this is most common on the interstate, don’t be surprised if you come across these vehicles in a city setting as well. Since a car-truck accident has the potential to cause serious […]
Throughout the course of their lives, most people experience a blow to the head from time to time, and in many instances they do not suffer any ill effects. Unfortunately, even relatively minor impacts to the head can cause serious injuries. They are not always easy to diagnose if the victim does not connect their […]
Help for Child Sex Abuse Survivors For too many years, too many victims of child sexual abuse have been barred from bringing claims because too much time has passed. New York has had a statute of limitations in place that disallowed adult survivors of child sexual abuse to bring legal action against their abusers after […]
We shouldn’t have to remind you to avoid getting into a car crash. But just look around at the other motorists you’re sharing the road with. They are looking at their cellphones, speeding, swerving through lanes of traffic, tailgating, driving drunk, getting distracted – and basically doing anything and everything that common sense says not […]
Certain medications can result in birth defects in babies. For this reason, physicians must take great care whenever prescribing medications to a pregnant soon-to-be mother. In most cases, a birth defect case related to medication will target the treating physician, pharmacist or drug company responsible for providing or prescribing the damaging medication to the mother […]
In the last article on this blog, we covered three of the most common causes of slip-and-fall accidents. However, there are many other dangers that result in people falling and getting hurt on someone else’s property. Often, it’s the more uncommon of these dangers that surprise us with a catastrophic injury. Here are three dangers […]
Imagine you’re walking through a department store when you slip and fall on a piece of clothing that was blocking your path. As it turns out, the clothing had been there all day, but the store employees and management never did anything to move it out of the pathway of customers. If you seriously hurt […]
Doctors are skilled at asking questions and pulling vital information out of their patients to ensure accurate diagnoses — at least, most doctors are. Sometimes doctors negligently fail to spend sufficient time with their patients and they don’t ask the questions to fully analyze their patients’ health situations. This can result in serious injuries and […]
No mother expects her child to be born with a serious medical condition, but the birthing process can be rough on babies at times — and a birth injury could be unavoidable. In other situations, however, a birth injury is entirely avoidable. When doctors detect the possibility of a birth injury during labor, they need […]
Every time you pull out into traffic, you’re facing a host of dangers due to the potentially drunk, unlawful, distracted, reckless and generally negligent motorists around you. Although you can’t do anything about these motorists, there are a few things you can do to significantly reduce the likelihood that you and your passengers will get […]
