Personal Injury Litigation

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 ]

Any real estate investor knows the mantra “location, location, location”.  It means simply that where the property is located is the most significant factor in valuing it.  In a personal injury claim the person injured must prove 3 things to [ Read More ]

Some of my clients are dependent upon opioid pain medication.  I represent the families of persons who have died due to opioid overdose.  It is estimated that as many as 2 million people in this country are addicted to opioid [ Read More ]

You have been seriously injured by the careless actions of another person. You have chosen your lawyer carefully.  Thank you for asking me to represent you.  It is a privilege to be given the opportunity to fight for you. Please [ Read More ]

Forced Arbitration of elder abuse in nursing homes was recently dealt a necessary blow. On September 28, 2016 a federal agency that controls Medicare and Medicaid dollars took action to prevent nursing homes from forcing claims of personal injury, elder [ Read More ]

In 2015, 253 people in Pennsylvania died under circumstances for which a medical professional may have been responsible based upon the reporting of designated safety officers of medical facilities to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority.  This is an increase from [ Read More ]

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 ]