This blog is the 3rd blog in a series of three that I have written for clients or family members of clients who have sustained a brain injury in an accident of any kind. As discussed in my previous blogs, [ Read More ]
Catastrophic Injury Cases
Personal Injury Awards – Taxable or Non-Taxable?
After years of lost work, repeated visits to doctors, repeated diagnostic testing, surgery or other painful procedures, physical therapy, ongoing pain, and an inability to do the things you enjoy, not to mention years of litigation to be compensated for [ Read More ]
New Study Finds Defensive Medicine NOT Fault of Trial Lawyers
Some physicians claim to order a large number of unnecessary and expensive tests, such as CT scans or MRI’s, not because patients need them but to protect themselves from lawsuits. The “defensive medicine excuse” is one argument used by physician [ Read More ]
Protecting your Privacy from Defense Counsel
Why should a defense attorney have access to your gynecologic records if you have a neck injury?
Wrongful Death of a Child-What Damages are Potentially Recoverable?
Could there be a more devastating loss than the death of a child? In my experience with grieving parents, the loss invades a parent’s waking thoughts, and disturbs sleep, forever, with only brief respites of distraction. Time helps scar over [ Read More ]
“I’m Not The Kind Of Person Who Sues”
Often times when I first meet a client who has been harmed by the careless acts of another, I am lucky to hear: “I’m not the kind of person who does this kind of thing.” Obviously, this “thing” is the [ Read More ]
5 Serious Diseases Can Be Caused by Brain Injury Says the VA
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 ]
Texting, The New Drunk Driving
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 ]