Informational Blogs

Call 911, even if the pedestrian only seems mildly injured. The last thing you want is for the pedestrian to walk away with hidden injuries. A variety of injuries can happen during pedestrian accidents that may not show signs right away. Letting the pedestrian leave without calling 911 may make you look negligent.

Sprains happen when a ligament that connects bones together is stretched or torn. These injuries commonly happen in joints, particularly the ankles, wrists, and knees. Moderate to severe sprains can leave a person unable to use their joint until the injury heals, or surgery is conducted.

You do not have to fall asleep at the wheel to make drowsy driving dangerous. Lower reaction time and decreased attention span can easily lead to driving errors that cause accidents. All it takes is missing an obstacle on the road or not noticing another driver to have a collision.

In short, medical malpractice is defined as a health professional who commits a negligent action or omission that leads to a new or worsened injury to a patient. A negligent action could mean not following standard medical protocols. Whereas, an act of omission could mean failing to fully sterilize a wound. Other acts of omission include:

Many pedestrians might instinctively put their arms up to soften the blow. This can easily lead to major bone fractures in the arms. Bone fractures are also common in the legs, ribs, pelvic regions, and spine. When spinal fractures are severe enough, this can result in spinal cord injuries. The same goes for skull fractures and the brain.

The mind can become easily disorganized when someone is multitasking. Not everyone realizes that driving itself involves multitasking. You have to steer the car, press the gas pedal, navigate the road, avoid obstacles, and keep track of where you are going. Adding more tasks to this list only adds to the multitasking a driver already has to do.

Nursing home abuse can take more than one form. This is part of what makes identifying nursing home abuse so difficult. Some signs of abuse can be easy to miss or overlook. What can help is looking at the bigger picture and context of signs to figure out their causes.

Before leaving the scene, you will want the dog owner’s information if you want to seek compensation. You will need the dog owner’s name, contact information, and address. When you do not know who the dog owner is, try asking anyone around the area if they might know. Filing a dog bite claim without knowing who the owner is might prove difficult.

Even certain over-the-counter medicines can impact driving. Allergy medicines are most commonly associated with significant drowsiness and dizziness. If you cannot find any warnings on the medication packaging and are still not sure, ask your pharmacist.

If your phone still works, take pictures of the accident scene, your injuries, and any damages to your vehicle. You can also record a video of the accident scene with your phone to capture more details of the damages. With new phones, you have the option to write down what happened or record yourself stating what happened.

Seeking medical attention after any of these signs is vital for preventing your spine injury from worsening. Moving the wrong way could potentially result in worse damage and outcomes. You might cause your fractured vertebrae to cut deeper into your spinal cord, leading to irreversible damage. Try to keep your back and neck still until paramedics arrive.

The luckiest bicyclists only suffer a mild concussion while others may have to struggle with the effects of a TBI. A moderate to severe TBI can make a person lose their language, movement, and sensory abilities. Some of these changes can be permanent depending on the level of brain damage.

Misdiagnoses and wrong treatments happen when a dentist rushes the intake and does not consider other causes. A failure to conduct a thorough exam or use an x-ray could contribute to this. Incompetence can also play a role, not only in misdiagnosis but also in dental operations. For example, a dentist who has no official training in surgery should not attempt surgery.

At a Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) of 0.02, people may have trouble accurately tracking objects with their eyes. Street signs, pedestrians, and other vehicles on the road may become harder to keep up with. One of the key skills that also decreases at this level is multi-tasking. Driving is a huge multi-tasking thing to do.

Exploitation happens when a nursing home worker uses their authority over the nursing home resident to take advantage of them. This can mean taking advantage in terms of physical power, financial control, or psychological control. Staff members who manipulate or deceive nursing home residents may fit this form of negligence.

Some people can cope better than others with whiplash pain. Those who struggle with whiplash pain may also experience problems with concentration and memory that can hinder work or school performance. Others may become irritable when the pain has not gone away since the accident, something that can impact social relationships.

Workplace accidents are common, but workplace accidents that lead to serious injuries can cost you a lot of money if you are the one injured. You may not have to pay for your medical bills yourself if your injury happened while you were on the clock and at your workplace. A program called workers...

Inattention to the road can be caused by distractions like using a phone or wearing headphones while riding your bike. What headphones do is take away your peripheral hearing, something that might make you not perceive a car right next to you or coming up from behind you. Bicyclists on busy roads must remain alert as much as possible due to the often unpredictable nature of other drivers on the road, especially at large intersections, where many bicycle accidents occur.

You might be able to file a New York product liability lawsuit against the toy company if one of three defects were found in the product and this is what caused your child’s injuries. These three defects can exist either in the toy’s manufacturing process, design, or marketing. Design defects typically lead to toy recalls because they exist in the actual blueprint of the toy.

Since New York is a no-fault insurance state, you have likely heard about how fault is not attributed to either driver after a New York City car accident since the auto insurance policy you have will cover you anyways. However, sometimes compensation from the insurance company is not enough to co...

Strains involve stretched or torn muscles or tendons that can lead to an inability to move the affected joint. Whereas, sprains involve the same type of damage and symptoms, except with ligaments. Both of these have the capacity to require surgery, limit or prevent movement, and result in prolonged recovery times when the afflicted area has to rest for a certain length of time. Serious sprains and strains can easily lead to lost wages.

Any of these instances of medical negligence can lead to physical or mental harm to a patient. Diagnostic errors happen when a doctor either fails to diagnose a medical condition in a timely manner or gives the wrong diagnosis. This can result in the rapid progression of a disease or undergoing unnecessary and expensive medical treatments.

With less protection on a bicycle than a car, most New York City bicycle accident injuries are severe and life-threatening when other drivers are involved. The faster a car is traveling before hitting a bicyclist, the greater the chances are of catastrophic injuries. This can leave bicyclists and...

One of the most shocking surgical errors is wrong-patient surgery, something that leaves many people wondering how you could perform surgery on a completely different patient. The reality is that some surgeons see close to dozens of patients a day and if a mistake on the chart is made or something is miscommunicated, a surgeon may wheel the wrong patient in for the wrong surgery.

When a driver hits a pedestrian, the usual assumption is that the New York pedestrian accident was the driver's fault. However, not everyone realizes that there are rare instances in which the pedestrian could be considered negligent. Even though New York is a no-fault insurance state, you can st...