Onset of Mental Birth Injuries
Sadly, injuries to the brain are both more common and harder to detect after birth. The reasons are obvious, the head is the largest part of a newborn and it’s the part that must undergo the most [...]
Quarantine Rules and Medical Malpractice
One of the trickiest areas of law deals with the infringement of freedoms and rights. When is it okay for the government to rescind the normal rules and order for a few to protect the many? This [...]
Workers’ Compensation From Exposure: Does it Include COVID-19?
It’s tough for the American workforce right now. It’s common for many to fear exposure to a dangerous infectious disease and subsequently lose work, infect their families, or worse. Complicating this further is uncertainty of what life [...]
Workers’ Compensation at Home: Employees Telecommuting
The statistics on working from home and telecommuting continues to grow as information technologies increasingly decentralize the workplace. A decade ago, only 24% of workers had home offices and/or performed workplace activities from home. Last year, this [...]
Medical Malpractice and Infectious Disease Protocols
The number of issues that can affect your care in a medical facility are already numerous. From the moment you enter the door to the moment you leave, there’s a lot of room for error and mistakes [...]
Malpractice During a Clinical Trial? It Can Happen.
Contention over medical research, especially research that involves human participants, is nothing new. Companies and other entities that conduct medical research are quick to cover their abases when it comes to the possibility of expenses. Even so, [...]
Paralysis After Medical Malpractice
When you hear the word "paralyzed" it’s easy to jump to a few specific mental images. However, the range of paralysis is much wider. A single muscle can be unable to send or receive nerve impulses, creating [...]
What Are the Long-Term Costs After a Birth Injury?
The days leading up to a birth are some of the most stressful a parent can go through. The mixture of hopes and fears keeps the family on its toes. Fortunately, most births go smoothly, and the [...]
Birth Injury Prevention Steps and Statistics
No topic creates as much fear and apprehension as an injury to a newly-born infant. Part of this comes from a deep-seated need to protect the young. The other part comes from the knowledge that a small [...]
Who Gets Sued? Malpractice and Hospital Structure
One question that sees little attention in the world of medical malpractice is the multitude of actors that can be sued under malpractice criteria. You might think that only a doctor or treating physician of some stripe [...]
Chronic Conditions Effect on Medical Malpractice Claims
For many, the idea of a sudden complication or lack of proper diagnosis from a sudden onset of illness is alarming. For others, they know, and have known, what’s wrong for a long time. Even those with [...]
I Got Worse, is it Malpractice?
Few things are as frustrating as placing your trust in someone dedicated to helping you only to get worse. One of the reasons that doctors and medical professionals work with such strict codes and protocols is to, [...]
Malpractice Concerns for Children and Teens
The laws governing the statute of limitations for medical malpractice have several categories of exceptions. Primarily, these deal with when an injury is, or should be, recognized by a claimant. For children and teens, these rules have [...]
Day Trips: Elder Care Out of the Home
Nursing homes offer two different types of excursion outside of the facility. The first is for necessary additional medical care. Trips to specialists include dentists, ophthalmologists, and for scan. The second kind are recreational trips meant to [...]
Causes and Risks of Bedsores
One of the most uncomfortable and risky signs of nursing home negligence is the appearance of bedsores. The human body is meant to be mobile and works best when it is challenged (within reason). When an elderly [...]
Medical Malpractice Claim Limitations
One of the trickiest problems with taking action when you’ve been wronged is learning about the injury later in life. In cases such as medical malpractice and wrongful death, it isn’t uncommon for years to pass before [...]
The Problem of Silence: Psychological Impacts of Nursing Home Neglect
Humans are social creatures. They work, play, love, and fear as a unit better than they do alone. United, they build great works and explore the globe and beyond. Divided, they suffer in silence or in great [...]
Halloween Health and Safety Tips
It's that spooky time of year again! Halloween is a holiday that is gaining in popularity year after year. What used to be a single day of fun and antics has morphed into an entire month or [...]
Nursing Home Negligence During Transportation
Not all problems with nursing home negligence occur in the home itself. Facilities have a duty to care for residents during transportation to remote activities as well. These remote activities are necessary for the social and physical [...]
Proving Nursing Home Negligence
It’s not enough to be convinced of a problem when it comes to the law. You also need to be able to provide proof. Some matters face tougher challenges on this front than others, few are as [...]