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Can a person sitting their living room be responsible for a motor vehicle accident?  Maybe, says a New Jersey court. In a previous blog posted January 9, 2013, I described how texting while driving is the new drunk driving.  In [ Read More ]

Recently, I was successful in proving to a Judge, at trial, that a rear-end motor vehicle accident caused my 75 year old client to suffer a trauma to her knees (which banged up against the dashboard) which triggered rheumatoid arthritis.  [ Read More ]

In the year 2012, fifty-five (55) separate people, or an average of 1 person per week, sought to hire me to bring a medical negligence claim on their behalf.  After scrutinizing the facts of each, sometimes spending thousands of dollars [ Read More ]

The Veteran’s Administration (“VA”) has been forced to address traumatic brain injury suffered by returning war veterans.  On December 10, 2012, the Veterans’ Affairs Department officially recognized, in an administrative ruling, the association between traumatic brain injury and five separate [ Read More ]

It is now five weeks since my middle son suffered a concussion in wrestling.  He was flipped onto his head by one of his practice partners.  He felt a headache and was a little dizzy but continued to practice. He [ Read More ]

Just as absence of loss of consciousness does not preclude a diagnosis by a medical professional of concussion, similarly, the affects of a brain injury on any one individual have been understood to not fit any particular time frame of [ Read More ]

Although it now should be clear that a concussion can be diagnosed without loss of consciousness as a symptom, would a defense expert be correct in saying that loss of consciousness signifies a mild concussion and complete recovery from any [ Read More ]

Smart phones are everywhere.  Our faces seem to be constantly glued to catch the latest text, tweet, or Instagram to our phones.  It is remarkable how often I see a group of people sitting at a table in a restaurant, [ Read More ]

Trial lawyers take note: No two brain injuries are the same. The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine defines mild traumatic brain injury as the traumatically induced physiologic disruption of brain function. This may manifest as any alteration in mental state [ Read More ]