A car accident can be one of life’s most stressful events. In the United States, an accident occurs every 10 seconds. Tragically, over 1 million people lose their lives in car wrecks each year. With such alarmingly high statistics, it’s beneficial to know exactly how...
When someone feels ill and they seek medical attention, they expect to receive proper care. But what happens when the care they received leaves them in worse health than before? It happens more often than you think. In fact, over 200,000 people die due to...
Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, refers to a blow or jolt to the brain that disrupts its normal function. These injuries can range from minor, like a concussion, to severe. According to The Center for Disease Control, each year about 1.7 billion traumatic injuries occur....
Car accidents are a common and unfortunate part of life. While many accidents are minor, thousands of Americans lose their lives in a car accidents each year. Because wrecks are so common, it’s important to know all the different factors that can lead to an...
In October 2015, a jury awarded $2.2 million to a Pennsylvania man in a medical malpractice case. During the trial, a surgeon testified that had the plaintiff's spinal fracture been properly diagnosed the man would be able to walk. Instead, the fracture was overlooked, and...
Winter weather is full of scary sounding forms of precipitation. Sleet. Freezing rain. Graupel. Ice. Black ice. Subtle differences in air and surface temperature determine what conditions will be encountered. Of all the types, it can be argued that black ice poses the most serious...
A husband and wife who were shot at Monroeville Mall in February have filed suit against the mall’s owners and the store where the shooting occurred. The couple claims that violence and gang activity at the mall just east of Pittsburgh had been increasing before...
Whenever construction happens on or near Philadelphia streets busy with cars and people, the chance of a construction accident becomes an even greater concern to our team of Pennsylvania injury lawyers. Here are three things that pedestrians in particular can do to avoid falling objects and...