Archive for the ‘Personal Injury’ Category

Dog owners…restrain your pets, warns the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”).  The statistics are frightening how a seemingly innocent dog can instantly contribute to a public health nightmare by biting an unassuming passerby, neighbor, friend, child, or visitor. As of September 5, 2014, the CDC estimated that in the United States alone, dogs …

Parking lots and parking garages abound in most major cities and even smaller towns across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. These structures allow individuals easy access to businesses, schools, office buildings, retail establishments, and airports. While convenient and useful, parking ramps, garages, and lots can be highly dangerous. In fact, these parking structures are the …

The Takata airbag recall has reached massive levels, with approximately 17 million vehicles affected in the U.S. and another seven million worldwide. The recall stems from an issue within the airbag inflator that can cause airbags to deploy improperly in the event of a crash and shoot metal fragments at the occupants. Initially, only six …

Liquor store manager Gregory Kochanowicz never imagined he would come face to face with a masked robber while at work. Nor did he think he would be duct-taped to a chair and his life threatened if he tried to escape. This, however, is exactly what the state Liquor Control Board contended, arguing that 60 year …

Pelvic mesh is commonly used in pelvic surgeries after pelvic organ prolapse (POP), or when muscles in the pelvic region weaken, causing organs to bulge or slip into the vagina. Pelvic organ prolapse can happen due to age, childbirth, or other reasons and is associated with pain along with bladder leakage. Countless women receive this …

When a person is in a serious car accident, one of the most devastating injuries that he or she can suffer is a traumatic brain injury (TBI) – a classification of brain trauma suffered as a result of an acute injury or a sudden impact. This type of injury may result in temporary harm to …

Many times, a person will invest in purchasing a sport utility vehicle (SUV) because of the perception that he and his family would be safer in the SUV than in a regular passenger vehicle. However, this may not be true. Some SUVs have poorly designed bodies that lead to instability, there may not be sufficient …

When a person is in an auto accident, there are many things that happen at the site of the accident, including contacting the police, obtaining the other driver’s insurance information, getting all vehicles out of the way of other vehicles, and receiving necessary emergency medical treatment. Undoubtedly, there is a tremendous amount of stress and …

Undoubtedly, every auto accident that occurs in the United States is different from the next. However, several of the same factors must be determined immediately after a motor vehicle accident occurs, including the speed in which the vehicles were travelling, the road conditions that were present at the time of the crash, and the scope …

Getting injured in a slip and fall accident at a store is a very common occurrence. It is something for which most business owners prepare and try to avoid through protocols and employee training. However, mistakes are made and accidents happen. The person who is injured as the result of someone else’s mistake is entitled …