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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently reported that medical malpractice jury verdicts have hit a 15 year low statewide in the year 2015. In the year 2004, Pennsylvania juries issued verdicts in 449 medical malpractice cases with 78.4% of those verdicts in [ Read More ]

Everyone knows the benefits of a good night sleep mostly because we know how crappy we feel when we don’t get it. Getting enough sleep at the right time impacts mental health, physical health, quality of life and safety.  The [ Read More ]

I first introduced in my blogs my middle son, Dante in March of 2013, when I wrote a blog about his mild brain injury sustained wrestling his freshman year of high school, at St. Joseph’s Prep.  ( https://www.barattarussell.com/blog/the-diagnosis-of-traumatic-brain-injury-as-essential-first-step-to-recovery/#more-96).  He is a [ Read More ]

I often hear insurance adjusters, and sometimes even lawyers and arbitrators, discuss the value of a particular injury as if there exists a menu with a price list somewhere. For example an insurance adjuster might say: Herniated disc in the [ Read More ]

Very often the people I represent have suffered disabling injuries.  Every one of my clients who is disabled from work wishes that were not in this situation. 

Have you ever used your cell phone to record audio, video, or even taken a picture, without the permission of the subject of the captured image or sound?   Whether one has a right to make these images, or even if [ Read More ]

It has become standard practice in all types of litigation for lawyers to search publicly available information on social media websites.  A number of legal commentators have suggested that it is malpractice to NOT perform a search of social media [ Read More ]

Every day I read something new in the newspaper about Kathleen Kane (Pennsylvania’s elected Attorney General).  Today the article I read addressed how she avoided a Senate vote to remove her from office.  The State Constitution allows the Governor to [ Read More ]

Jane, a grandmother, while on the way to visit her grandchildren, was in a car wreck on the road her grandchildren lived.  She so feared the location, she refused to visit her grandchildren for years.

SOAP-Symptoms, Objective signs, Assessment and Plan Medical records are typically kept in a form described with this acronym. In almost every injury case I handle, my client will claim some error or mistake in the medical records created of their [ Read More ]