Category: Medical Malpractice

Lasik surgery is intended to help individuals with poor eyesight restore their vision. Doctors advertise the surgery as a safe procedure that restores your sight so that you can stop using eyeglasses or contacts. Unfortunately, mistakes occur that result in injuries. Our New Jersey Lasik surgery malpractice lawyers represent clients who have...

What Are the Most Common EMT or Paramedic Malpractice Issues? Medical malpractice is almost always associated with physicians, surgeons, and hospitals. However, it can extend to paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs). Some of the most crucial medical diagnoses and treatments happen at the ambulatory stage, even before the patient gets to the...

A cancer diagnosis is not the death sentence it was decades ago. Thanks to developments in cancer treatment, patients diagnosed with cancer early on stand a significant chance of getting cured. However, when patients experience a delayed diagnosis, when the cancer has moved from Stage 1 to Stage 4, their chances of responding...

Manufacturers have a huge economic incentive to produce products for the American market. Sometimes, this incentive leads manufacturers to relax their safety standards or cut compliance costs in order to increase their profits. Ultimately, defective products are produced which negatively affect the physical, emotional and psychological health of consumers.

Why are children at an increased risk of long term brain damage due to head injuries? Sports can be a wonderful way for children to get exercise, while developing sportsmanship, team spirit, and skill.  Despite the numerous advantages to participating in a sport, children are at risk of brain injuries when playing in...

A pedestrian road accident is a traumatic event. It also happens very suddenly. You may have been crossing the road at an intersection when a negligent driver forgets to yield way, colliding with you head-on or a tired driver is blinded by the sun and rams into you. You are injured and...

Why has the number of pedestrian accidents increased in recent years? With the surge in mobile electronics, more of us today are walking around looking down at our phones, instead of in front of us.  Walking while staring at a phone has created a whole new category of accidents dubbed “distracted walking.”  The...

In 2006, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a report identifying “driver inattention” as the primary cause of 80% of automotive crashes in America, as well as 65% of ‘near collisions.’  The definition of driver inattention includes the use of devices like cell phones that divert the driver’s attention from the road.  Distracting...

How will Lavern’s Law help malpractice victims? A bill that seeks to give medical malpractice victims more time to bring an action has finally been approved by the Legislature. The bill, known as Lavern’s Law, calls for the timeline for bringing a medical malpractice case to start when the error is discovered by the...

What Does This Mean For NJ Drivers? The New Jersey legislature is currently considering a bill that would require owners of driverless cars to have auto insurance. Two other states, Nevada and Florida, have already passed such bills into law. New Jersey car accident attorneys are keeping a close eye on developments and what they...