Had a personal injury, car accident or malpractice that left you or a loved one in a hospital? According to the NY Times, 98,000 patients die in the US every year due to avoidable hospital mistakes. This includes medical malpractice, negligence, errors and omissions. New York’s best personal injury lawyers know it, as they have defended the rights of medical malpractice victims for over twenty years. NY injury lawyers proved that a NY hospital’s failure to diagnose Meningitis caused long term injury for a two-year old girl. Injury attorneys helped the victim successfully recover $3 Million for her personal injuries due to the hospital negligence. The recently published national hospital safety report recommends greater doctor accountability. Doctors must step up and standardize patient safety procedures. For example, Dr, Wachter says that hospital can consistently improve upon standards of hand hygiene in US hospitals. NY win injury lawyers agree.NY Injury lawyers established that a NY doctor mis-treated a two year old child with a leg fracture. Lawyers earned $2 Million for the injury victim. In the meantime, the Institute of Medicine report recommends that hospitalized patients have loved ones by their side, providing patients and medical personnel with an extra set of eyes and ears for the patient’s well being.

Loyal readers may recall that we wrote about this issue in an October piece, Get the Ice Off Your Car, or Face New Jersey Law. But now that snow is coming down this January, top NY personal injury lawyers feel the message abut snow ice injury is well worth repeating. Before setting out on the road, check that your car, truck, SUV, or whatever motor vehicle you may drive, is clear of ice blocks and snow, not just on the windshield, but anywhere. When propelling at high speeds, the weighty mass of an ice block can smash an oncoming windshield, causing a major motor vehicle personal injury to nearby cars and pedestrians. NY personal injury lawyers know, as they have helped NY injury victims of car accident injuries and pedestrian injuries recover millions. See this story of negligent truck driver who hit a motorcycle. We commend New Jersey’s The Record and Road Warrior for echoing our warnings about the dangerous conditions caused by car-borne ice and snow. As The Records writers put it, drivers ought to step up to their snow-commuting responsibilities, or stay at home. NY personal injury lawyers feel the best injury, is No Injury.

In a recent piece at NY Daily News, Michael Getnick, President of the NY Bar Association, raises a strong argument against the Obama administration’s proposed changes to and limitations on medical malpractice claims. As leading NY personal injury lawyers attest, Personal injury can adversely effect a person’s long-term life well-being, health, and ability to function. A mishap during the birth process can leave a a baby with long-term impairment, disability and brain damage. Rightful compensation necessitates careful assessment of factors such as previous medical history, scope of injury, calculated loss of income, and impact on quality of life on oneself and loved ones. For example, see this $4.5 Million settlement for a NY slip and fall, due to negligent maintenance. Top NY personal injury lawyers work on a win-win contingency basis. This means that the injury attorneys only get paid when they win an injured person’s case or settlement. That is, the judge agrees that an injured person is entitled to compensation for pain and suffering. Getnick dispels a few more myths about NY personal injury lawyers: 1) Judges are not forced to tolerate frivolous lawsuits raised by anyone. Instead, a judge can dismiss such a case, and sanction the injury lawyer. 2) The number of filings for NY personal injury cases are not shooting upward. In contrast, the total number of tort filings went down 30% over the past ten years. In summary, NY personal injury lawyers help protect the rights of injured people.

A personal injury can happen anywhere, on a train, bus, subway or ferry. Top NY injury attorneys know it. They have taken on the NY City Transit Authority and demanded fair compensation for bus and other transit injury victims. For example, injury lawyers won $1.9 Million in compensation for a NY pedestrian hit by a city bus. Similarly, six years after a Staten Island ferry crashed into a concrete pier, NY accident victims are fighting the City for compensation. All but six of 162 injury victims have settled their cases with the City of New York. The remaining victims are claiming injuries including long-term suffering, mental disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and back injury. Let’s see what the judge says. Recall that leading NY injury lawyers fought and won $1.3 Million for a Queens woman hit by a city van while crossing the street. The woman’s daughter was killed as a result of the negligent driver. If you or a loved one suffer a bus injury or any transit accident, get top NY injury lawyers on your side. They don’t charge any fee unless they win your case or settlement.

Cities across the US are running ad campaigns and pursuing legal reform to help prevent pedestrian injuries such as car knock overs, car crashes, and train and bus hits. Top NY personal injury lawyer are pleased to see the cities, such as San Fransisco and Columbus, taking proactive approaches to prevent injury. In fact, Morrison & Wagner has won millions of dollars for NY bus accident victims, roller skate accidents, and car accident injuries. The recent safety campaigns aim to educate people on the dangerous condition created by listening to headsets while walking down the street, skating, biking, jogging, and of course, driving. New York is home to millions of pedestrians and outdoor walkers, throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens. While iPods may provide a feeling of relaxation, they compromise a person’s awareness of external dangers such as oncoming vehicles. So listen to top New York injury lawyers, take off those headphones when moving outside.

When a worker gets hurt on the job, such as due to a dangerous condition, he/she is often entitled to worker compensation for the NY job injury. If an employee collects worker’s comp for his job accident, he gives up his right to sue the employer for negligence. As such, it pays for an NY injury victim to know all his options before filing a Worker’s Compensation claim. An accident victim may choose to utilize a leading personal injury lawyer to sue an employer, and pursue maximum monetary compensation on behalf of the NY injury. Top Injury lawyer has won many kinds of personal injury cases, such as that of a dangerous condition in NY apartment which resulted from negligent maintenance. Payment for the Bronx injury victim totaled $4.5 million. Worker’s Compensation laws can be complex. At times, an injured party makes an unjustified disability claim. For example, this NY resident claimed to suffer an injury that prevented him from working. The Albany man filed a Worker Compensation claim with New York State Insurance Fund. Investigators recently caught the man working, despite his declared inability to work. The man’s fraudulent behavior compelled him forfeit future Worker’s Comp payments that exceeded $139,000. If you or a friend has a NY job injury, know your full legal options. Get the best NY personal injury lawyer to win your case.

In Asian Kite Fighting, runners line their kite strings with sharp glass and metal, in the hope of slicing down opposing kites. The sport has a history of dangerous conditions in countries such as, India, Korea and Pakistan. When player brought the sport to a New York City park, a serious dangerous condition ensued, says top NY personal injury lawyer. A Twelve-year old skateboarder in Flushing, NY, slashed his neck on a razor a thin, glass-lined kite string. The victim required Emergency Room hospitalization, and medical treatment of five hundred stitches. In light of the personal injury victim’s trauma, pain and suffering, the young man claims that the NY City park was negligent in tolerating the dangerous condition to exist. Got hurt in a NY accident or hospital? Believe that someone was negligent in causing a personal injury? You have a right to sue and receive fair compensation. Go straight to the top. It costs you nothing unless NY personal injury lawyer wins your case or settlement. See the proof. Check out this story in which NY personal injury lawyer sued and successfully recovered $4.5 Million for a NY injury. Get started now.

Tall buildings and cranky elevators are commonplace in the city that never sleeps. Unfortunately, so is accident injury and wrongful death, declare NY personal injury lawyers. Last weekend, Gerhardt Fuchs, a talented Brooklyn drummer, fell down an elevator shaft, while trying to escape from the stalled lift. Fuchs was on his way to a party in the upper stories of the building, sometime after midnight. This is not the first time that injury attorneys are writing about dangerous elevators and their risks. In September, top New York Personal Injury lawyers presented a 1994 Elevator study by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that recorded as many as 7,300 escalator and 9,800 elevator injuries that necessitated hospitalization — all in a single year! Elevators require frequent inspections, maintenance and proper usage. Gerhardt and another passenger (who survived) were allegedly traveling up a freight elevator that should not have operated after business hours, without an on-site attendee. We regret to hear of the New York wrongful death. Read about this Queens Wrongful Death here. As a pedestrian, elevator passenger, and driver, be careful and avoid a personal injury. If you or a close one of yours got hurt in a NY accident, get legal help right away. Top accident lawyers charge no fees unless they successfully recover your compensation.

Consumer Reports issued a strong warning to parents to help them prevent a personal injury. The Message: Use infant car seats for their intended purposes and nothing else. Top NY personal injury attorneys have seen brain injury resulting from medical malpractice and car accidents. Indeed, child car seats help prevent New York injury. But car seats can create a dangerous condition when used outside of the car. According to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, forty three thousand infants reached USA Emergency Rooms after falling from car seats that were improperly placed on high surfaces, such as tables (2003 – 2007 data). For example, parents may exhibit reluctance to wake a sleeping child, and remove him/her from a snug car infant seat, when reaching their driving destination. But the car seat is not meant to protect a child outside of the car. The curved base of a typical infant seat fits the contours of a car, but not of a floor, sofa or table surface. In such contexts, an infant seat is likely to cause personal injury, as the seat may slip and fall. So please help keep children safe, avoid a child injury. Carefully use car seats and keeping them where they belong. 

Two months ago, Top NY Personal injury Lawyers wrote about the efforts of New York hospitals to brace for Swine Flu injuries. Fears of claims regarding medical malpractice, negligence and failure to diagnose prompted some medical centers to order wall-to-wall supplies of the H1N1 vaccine. Suppose a patient walks into a NY hospital and presents signs of the disease, and a doctor feels that the Flu vaccine is the best course of treatment. By New York law, an attending doctor or nurse must establish that the patient provides informed consent to receive the vaccine, or undergo a given medical procedure. And so, doctors owe it to patients to disclose the advantages, disadvantages, and risks associated with a given vaccine. At that point, a patient may or may not pursue the vaccine. It’s the patient’s choice. Not so for New York hospital employees, says a recent op-ed piece in a NY paper. According to the writer, New York hospitals, with an eye out to prevent medical malpractice suits, are requiring all hospital employees to undergo the Flu vaccine, or face termination. Is it fair? The op-ed author contends not. Without taking sides, New York personal injury lawyers believe the issue may also be constructed as: a) Concern for personal injury caused onto NY hospital employees, due to complications resulting from the H1N1 vaccine; weighed against, b) an interest in protecting the public from spread of the disease through hospital employees, and medical malpractice cases against the hospitals. We hope the rights of all parties will be best protected, while preventing personal injury for all New Yorkers.