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• Brain Injurys

  Joe Stanley | May 03, 2007 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  Brain injuries often called closed head injuries are the most common misdiagnosed and misunderstood injury in any kind of accident whether a car crash slip and fall construction accident. As human beings it is difficult to perceive and identify that we have a brain injury unless it is very bad. As a lawyer handling personal injuries i have seen first hand the ethe effects of brain trauma and the...

• Insurance companies and your rights as injured parties

  Joe Stanley | April 30, 2007 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  In ohio like many states the insurance companies and big business have you popular myths and folklore stories to severely limit the right of victims of wrongful conduct.http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/17157917.htm As is always the case those without power are penalized. Limiting victims rights does not lower insurance premiums.I just generates more profits for insurance...

• Accidents and lawsuits what to do?

  Joe Stanley | April 26, 2007 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  Unfortunately in todays legal climate juries and people in general are suspicious of car accident slip and fall victims construction worker accident and lawsuits in general. After representing injured victims for over 25 years it is important if you have been injured in an accident to document who was responsible by pictures witnesses and by whatever means possible. Make sure that any police or...

• Dog Bites - Watertown - The one free bite rule

  Rob Quattrocci | April 24, 2007 9:21 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  In New York we have law in effect that requires someone injured by a dog to show that the dog had prior vicious propensities. This can be shown in a number of ways including showing that the dog had bitten someone else prior to your bite or by showing that the dog exhibited vicious tendencies such as bearing his teeth, growling etc. Showing that a dog had prior vicious propensities can be very...

• Seat Belts and Car Accidents

  Joe Stanley | April 20, 2007 10:21 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  As New Jersey Govenor Corzine discoverd not wearing a seatbelt can have serious consequences. All states except one Vermont have seatbelt laws aid a limiting injuries in car accidents. The penalties and the reach of the law differs from state to state.Mainehttp://pressherald.mainetoday.com/v iewpoints/editorials/070419seatbelt.htmlNew York has a fairly restrictive seat belt law.Failure...

• Worker Killed in Fall at St. Jude

  Christina Cole | April 20, 2007 2:25 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  In a construction accident on Tuesday, a worker fell 40 to 60 feet to his death at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.Construction officials refused to release any details about the accident victim. The only information they would say is the woker fell 40 to 60 feet and that the victim worked for a masonry subcontractor."We are saddened by the loss, but we know very little at this point,"...

• Driver Drags Man Under Car in Accident

  Christina Cole | April 17, 2007 2:09 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  A man is lucky to be alive after being hit and then dragged by an SUV for almost a mile while the driver ignored the thumping sound under his wheel, New York state police said.The man, 22, lost his lower lip, right bicep muscle and broke his right shoulder while he was pulled throughout the parking lot, around a traffic circle and up and down a round. After the car accident, Tuesday, he was...

• Ibuprofen May Increase Heart Attack Risk

  Christina Cole | April 09, 2007 9:12 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have found new evidence that ibuprofen can increase the risk for osteoarthritis in patients that are already at risk to heart attack. Researchers compared combination treatments of low-dose aspirin with drugs ibuprofen, naproxen and the cox-2 inhibitor lumircaboix. They discovered high cardiovascular risk patients that took ibuprofen and aspirin...

• Lawsuit Alleges Doctors Botched Birth

  Christina Cole | March 30, 2007 10:24 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  Doctors botched a breach birth, causing a child to suffer numerous medical problems, alleges a multi-million dollar lawsuit.A statement of claim filed by the Mother of the child alleges doctors didn't discover soon enough that the baby wasn't in the proper birthing position. Had they done so, the baby could have been moved while still inside the mother's womb so that she could be delivered...

• Clinic Inseminates Woman with Wrong Sperm

  Christina Cole | March 22, 2007 9:48 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  A fertility clinic used the wrong sperm to inseminate a woman with sperm other than her husband's and a New York judge is allowing the couple to sue the clinic in a medical malpractice lawsuit.The couple filed the lawsuit after the wife gave birth to their daughter whose skin was too dark to be their child. The judge notes the couple had three DNA tests done to confirm their suspicions that her...