Updates and Insights
- Damages Covered in Wrongful Birth Compensation
Mar 17, 2023
What Types of Damages are Included in Wrongful Birth Awards in New Jersey? A child born with birth defects brings both joy and hardship. A new life means an expanded family and another human being to watch grow up. Nevertheless, a baby born with congenital disabilities also brings financial and emotional hardships. Children with physical and cognitive challenges often need lifelong medical treatment, and some need round-the-clock care. Importantly, when a child is born with...Read More - Medical Errors and Claims for Necrotizing Fasciitis in New Jersey
Mar 4, 2023
Necrotizing fasciitis, the flesh-eating disease, is a rare bacterial infection that can lead to serious health issues. Necrosis is the death of organ or tissue cells due to several causes, so necrotizing is the dying of cells in organs or tissue. Fascia is the tissue that surrounds muscles, bones, vessels, and organs and holds them in place. Fasciitis is inflammation of the fascia. Thus, necrotizing fasciitis is a life-threatening disease that starts as an infection...Read More - Premature Hospital Discharge: What it is and When You can File a Lawsuit
Feb 17, 2023
Being Discharged Early from the Hospital is Common, but in Some Cases, Wrongful Discharge can Lead to Serious Complications Of course, not all early discharges are considered medical malpractice. Sometimes a doctor discharges a patient because they seem stable enough to leave the hospital. And yet, the physician may be liable when they release a patient that is still suffering symptoms or has an undiagnosed condition. A premature hospital discharge may cause complications from an...Read More - Understanding Fever Errors
Feb 3, 2023
New Jersey Fever Error Attorneys Most people consider fevers as signs of sickness like the flu. However, there are many potential causes of fevers and some may require urgent medical attention. Although fevers often accompany other diseases, sometimes they result from medical errors. Due to the prevalence of fevers in everyday life, you may wonder if and when medical errors with a fever are a just cause for legal action against medical professionals and facilities...Read More - What is Loss of Enjoyment of Life in a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit?
Jan 20, 2023
After a medical malpractice injury, you may suffer physical pain due to sprains, fractures, cuts, infections, bleeding, and even permanent disability, as well as emotional pain due to overwhelming losses. When your life changes radically due to a medical professional’s carelessness or recklessness, you may lose your sense of joy, purpose, and well-being. Activities you once enjoyed are lost to you, temporarily or permanently, an irreparable loss throughout your life. Loss of life’s enjoyment resulting...Read More - Loss of Companionship and Consortium in a Medical Malpractice Case
Jan 6, 2023
New Jersey allows loved ones of medical malpractice victims to pursue compensation for the toll that their family member’s injuries or death has taken on their relationship and their household. The stresses of caretaking and lost support from your spouse can take an enormous toll on your relationship. Your relationship may suffer when your loved one sustains injuries or dies from a medical professional’s or facility’s negligence. When the damages from a medical malpractice incident...Read More - 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