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- Social Media in Your Medical Malpractice Case in NJ
Dec 23, 2022
What to Know about Discoverability, Use, and Best Practices with Social Media if You Intend to File a Claim for Medical Negligence in New Jersey In the Internet age of social media, people find connection through disclosing their private lives to others. In fact, social media exists to nourish those connections. Those who use social media to maintain family contacts all over the globe or meet people they would not otherwise feel less isolated. Still,...Read More - Medical Professionals Fail to Act on Incidental Findings, A Main Source of Malpractice Claims
Dec 9, 2022
Undiagnosed, Undisclosed, and Mishandled Incidental Findings Often Result in NJ Medical Malpractice Suits Incidental findings in medicine are extra discoveries in tests, some indicating conditions other than the reason for a test. For instance, when you go to your doctor for coughing, fatigue, and tightness in your chest, your doctor may order a chest CT scan, looking for clots, inflammation, or lung fluid, as signs of pneumonia. When the CT scan shows fluid in the...Read More - Learning & Cognitive Disabilities for Children with Birth Injuries
Nov 18, 2022
NJ Birth Injury Attorney Discusses Cognitive, Learning, and Developmental Disabilities for Children with Birth Injuries Birth injuries leave mothers and children searching for answers, sometimes for a lifetime. Parents wonder what they could have done to prevent harm to their children. And yet, sometimes genetics, nature, and accidents cause permanent disability in a child injured at birth. When the birth injury was avoidable, the family’s pain and suffering are only worse. If your child suffered...Read More - Can I Take Medical Leave After Medical Malpractice Happens to Me or Someone I Love in New Jersey?
Nov 5, 2022
When you or a loved one suffers a severe injury or illness due to a medical error, you may not be able to work while you or your loved one recovers. Fortunately, the federal and New Jersey state legislatures protect many employees from losing their jobs due to illness or caretaking responsibilities when tragedy strikes. The federal and state medical leave statutes allow employees to focus on their overwhelming needs for themselves or their families...Read More - Fronzuto Law Group Settles Failure to Test Medical Malpractice Case for $3,500,000.00
Oct 28, 2022
New Jersey’s Fronzuto Law Group recently obtained a $3.5 million financial recovery on behalf of a woman’s loved ones for medical malpractice involving failure to order appropriate testing. In this tragic case, a woman lost her life after a lengthy and painful battle with ovarian cancer, leaving behind her husband and four-year-old daughter. Had she been properly advised and tested, she would have been timely diagnosed with the BRCA gene mutation, a genetic indication that...Read More - A Guide to Wrongful Death for Surviving Loved Ones
Oct 14, 2022
A Broad Overview of NJ Wrongful Death Lawsuits If you are reading this, you may have recently suffered the loss of a loved one, who you believe died due to the actions or negligence of another person. When coping with this tragic loss, questions may arise as to whether or not you have a valid reason to file a civil lawsuit for wrongful death. Understanding the legal avenues that may be available to you is...Read More - The Process of Investigating a Birth Injury Case
Sep 30, 2022
What Happens during a Birth Injury Investigation Coming home from the hospital with a new bundle should be a joyous occasion. Unfortunately, many families do not leave with their newborns because they need continued care to survive or heal from an injury. Birth injuries may result from many causes, but the most tragic are those injuries that are preventable. Mistakes during pregnancy or birth can leave newborns with cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy, shoulder dystocia, or...Read More - How do You Know if You Have a Cerebral Palsy Claim?
Sep 17, 2022
Determining if Your Child has a Cerebral Palsy Lawsuit Birth injuries occur more commonly than most people would think. One of the most common birth injuries are to the head and brain, but nerve and spinal cord damage can also occur at or near childbirth. When damage to the brain occurs before, during, or after delivery, a child may be diagnosed with cerebral palsy. A child who receives a devastating cerebral palsy diagnosis must live...Read More - Spastic Cerebral Palsy Lawsuits
Sep 2, 2022
Unique Complexities of Spastic Cerebral Palsy and Related Lawsuits in New Jersey Cerebral palsy is a brain disorder of various degrees and symptoms. The core component of cerebral palsy is brain damage that occurs before, at, or shortly after birth. The harm may come from developmental problems or injuries occurring during delivery. Sometimes, the causes are unknown. Brain impairment from cerebral palsy interferes with messaging from the brain to other parts of the body, causing...Read More - Fronzuto Law Group Wins $5 Million in Settlements in the First Half of 2022
Aug 19, 2022
Fronzuto Law Group kicked off 2022 with three consecutive case victories, recovering $5 million in settlements in medical malpractice, wrongful death, and wrongful birth lawsuits. The victims in these cases range from a young mother who tragically lost her life after giving birth to twins, to a family man who left behind his wife and two children after suffering fatal prescription drug intoxication, to a young boy with muscular dystrophy whose parents were deprived of...Read More