Because Pennsylvania is a no-fault state, every motor vehicle accident victim remains responsible for paying their own medical expenses by law. Once your automobile medical coverage is exhausted (if you have medical insurance), the bills must be submitted to your [ Read More ]
Automobile Accidents
Dementia Can Be Result of Previous Traumatic Brain Injury
A recent study in Finland establishes that a severe head injury, especially during middle age, could dramatically increase the risk for developing dementia later in life. The study included 40,639 Finnish adults between the ages of 18 and 65 who [ Read More ]
New Pennsylvania Law – Physicians Themselves MUST Obtain Patient’s Consent
Whenever you are being offered the choice of a medical treatment, you are entitled to know all the risks, benefits and alternatives. The law in Pennsylvania now requires that the treating physician is responsible to do this and is not [ Read More ]
Will My Auto Insurance Rates Go Up?
A client was recently rear ended. Both the striking vehicle and her vehicle had significant property damage. She immediately felt neck and back pain but was reluctant to receive treatment for fear that her auto insurance rates would rise. Were [ Read More ]
Fibromyalgia, You Are Not Going Crazy!
I recently completed the representation of a woman who suffered injuries to her neck and back after being rear ended by a commercial truck. Her Jeep Cherokee was caused $20,000 in property damage so it was a massive hit. At [ Read More ]
Mild Brain Injury Can Increase Risk of Alzheimer’s
The association between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the risk of Alzheimer’s/dementia remains controversial and not yet resolved conclusively. However, there are a number of studies to suggest that there is a link. Alzheimer’s An estimated 5 million Americans have [ Read More ]
The Math Behind Accident Reconstruction
Does anybody fear highway driving as much as I do? One reason I do is how regularly a driver will try to push me to go faster or pull into another lane by riding up on my tail. And this [ Read More ]
Heart, Drive & Hope – Inspiration From My Family and Clients
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 ]
4 Benefit Programs for the Disabled You Should Know About
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.
Emotional Injury – What Is It and Can It Be Proven
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.