New report ranks hospital surgery safety
New York Legal Authority In this day and age it’s easy to quickly check business and restaurant reviews online. Actual consumers in New York can report on the quality of service and product, leaving...
View ArticleCar accident claims life of young boy
New York Legal Authority Sometimes, a car accident does not involve two vehicles but still results in multiple injuries and death. This was the case this past Sunday, August 11, when an accident...
View ArticleCancer misdiagnosis leading cause for malpractice claims
New York Legal Authority New Yorkers do not need to have a degree in medicine to know how crucial early detection of cancer can be. A delayed treatment as well as a cancer misdiagnosis increases the...
View ArticleCentral Islip crash kills 1, injures 2
New York Legal Authority A single-vehicle car accident has left one teenager dead and two others injured in Suffolk County, New York. The accident occurred just after midnight on Sept. 5, and while...
View Article4-vehicle accident leads to 1 death, another injured
New York Legal Authority It is not uncommon for an auto accident to involve multiple vehicles, including cars, trucks and buses. In situations where multiple vehicles are involved, with one being...
View ArticleCan faster care mean doctor errors for heart attack patients?
New York Legal Authority Queens, New York, residents and medical practitioners know that it is touch-and-go when it comes to a heart attack. Patients need prompt care to save their lives and reduce the...
View ArticleSix Flags denies liability after woman falls to her death
New York Legal Authority New York readers may remember a story about a woman falling to her death on a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas earlier this year. The family has brought a lawsuit against...
View ArticleHigh rate of C-sections increases birth injury risks
New York Legal Authority Cesarean section deliveries are among the most common surgeries now being performed in the United States, including New York. In fact, the percentage of births by surgery has...
View ArticleFormer inmate files lawsuit related to prison guard abuse
New York Legal Authority Even for those who have never spent a single night in jail or prison, it is easy to understand that this is not easy to deal with. Unfortunately, the situation can be even more...
View ArticleMother of 3 killed by wrong-way driver
New York Legal Authority A Liverpool mother was killed and her three children were seriously injured after a head-on collision in Clay on Nov. 24. The woman’s husband and father of her two youngest...
View ArticleWill New York City increase drunk driving patrols over holidays?
From Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day, New York City gets even busier than it usually is. From shoppers to tourists to people returning to the city for the holidays, it is undeniably a busy time of...
View ArticleNew York man took drugs before fatal crash
New York Legal Authority Drunk or impaired drivers are a serious danger to everyone on the road. Drugs and alcohol can decrease a person’s senses and response time. Judgment is also compromised. As a...
View ArticleSaving New York patients from hospital miscommunications
New York Legal Authority Hospitals are mainly concerned about the health of their patients as well as the quality of the medical services they are giving. Hospitals all over the country, including...
View ArticleBankruptcy and home ownership
Some New York homeowners who are struggling to make ends meet or facing a foreclosure may choose to file for bankruptcy. The advantages of doing so are that people can reorganize their debt and, in...
View ArticleNew York car accident kills pedestrian and motorcyclist
New York Legal Authority A car crash occurred in Queens involving a pedestrian and a motorcyclist. Now, two New York families are bearing the burden of a tragic death after two people died in a car...
View ArticleWrongly diagnosed asthma can lead to worsened condition
New York Legal Authority While asthma can be serious, it remains a treatable chronic disease. However, it is also a disease that can be prone to misdiagnosis. According to experts, over 25 million...
View ArticleGroup lobbies to amend scaffolding law
New York Legal Authority A group of contractors and property owners in New York have begun an lobbying campaign to amend the state’s Scaffolding Law. The law, which was first enacted in 1885, holds...
View ArticleWoman claims surgical mistakes led to her double amputation
The only reason many medical procedures can be considered minor is because surgeons have performed them thousands of times. No matter how comfortable a doctor may be diagnosing and/or treating an...
View ArticleHow to spot red flags in a child custody dispute
During the holiday season, it is not unusual for tensions to run high and emotions to be on edge. When the holidays coincide with divorce and child custody issues, some situations are so tense they...
View ArticleCould sedation dentistry be more dangerous than we’ve been told?
New York Legal Authority For New Yorkers who dread going to the dentist, there has been a solution out there for several years: sedation dentistry. Essentially, rather than having to lie back in...
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