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INJURED? WHY YOU WANT YOUR DAY IN COURT
INJURED? WHY YOU WANT YOUR DAY IN COURT Here’s a startling statistic for you, straight from the Bureau of Justice Statistics: More than 95% of personal injury cases are settled pretrial. That means, explains the Law Dictionary, that just one in 20 personal injury cases is resolved in a court of law by a… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: RICHARD HAILEY SERVES AS CO-COUNSEL IN TRAGIC MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CASE
In July of 2017, 60-year old MM had undergone a “practice” surgical procedure to see whether an implant called a spinal cord stimulator (a “paddle” connected to threaded wires with electrodes) could be inserted into her spine to relieve her ongoing back pain. When MM reported a significant degree of pain relief from the… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: DOUBLE-BOOKED DOCTORS CAUSE PERSONAL INJURY TO PATIENTS
When a single doctor is supervising surgery in two (even three?) different operating rooms (at the same time!) – that sounds like a recipe for personal injury lawsuit. Actually, overlapping surgery is a longstanding practice, JAMA Internal Medicine explains, for several very valid reasons: to improve hospital resource utilization to educate surgical trainees to… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: DOUBLE-BOOKED DOCTORS CAUSE PERSONAL INJURY TO PATIENTS
When a single doctor is supervising surgery in two (even three?) different operations rooms (at the same time!) – that sounds like a recipe for personal injury lawsuit. Actually, overlapping surgery is a longstanding practice, JAMA Internal Medicine explains, for several very valid reasons: to improve hospital resource utilization to educate surgical trainees to… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: PHYSICIAN NOT NEGLIGENT IN CHOOSING ONE TREATMENT OVER ANOTHER
A personal injury lawsuit in the state of Wisconsin centered around the fact that infant L.B. was born with severe and permanent neurologic injuries. The mother filed suit against the obstetrician for failing to accurately trace the fetus’ heart rate during labor (therefore not discovering that the fetus had suffered a lack of oxygen)…. Read More »
DO AUTO DRIVERS HAVE THE POWER TO REDUCE THE PERILS PRESENTED BY TRUCKS?
“Driving doesn’t have to be perilous,” a recent IndyStar headline asserted, just four pages past their own front page story titled “Fatal Large Truck Crashes Escalate”. But isn’t driving, in fact, quite perilous? Most deaths in large truck crashes are passenger vehicle occupants, explains the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, offering several reasons why… Read More »
THE LAW GOES AFTER SEX TRAFFICKERS; CIVIL LAWSUITS GO AFTER ENABLERS
“In 2003, Congress created a private right of action to allow trafficking victims to bring civil cases against perpetrators,” the Human Trafficking Legal Center explains. But ”even when prosecutors succeed in obtaining convictions, courts rarely order criminal restitution (compensation) to trafficking victims…”Federal prosecutors can indict for these crimes…and survivors can sue those who perpetrate them.”… Read More »
BIRTH DEFECTS – THE MOST TRAUMATIC INJURIES OF ALL
One of the saddest occurrences imaginable is a child born with a birth defect. If the condition is a birth injury, at least partially caused by the negligence of healthcare workers, legal action can be filed to seek compensation for the family and cover the costs of caring for that child. Common… Read More »
BIRTH DEFECTS – THE MOST TRAUMATIC INJURIES OF ALL
One of the saddest occurrences imaginable is a child born with a birth defect. If the condition is a birth injury, at least partially caused by the negligence of healthcare workers, legal action can be filed to seek compensation for the family and cover the costs of caring for that child. Common types… Read More »
INDIANA IS NOT THAT KIND OF STATE
In order to understand how Indiana’s law is different from that in the majority of U.S. states, you need to first understand what a tort is: A tort is an act or omission that causes injury or harm to another, explains the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute. Here at Ramey & Hailey, we… Read More »
