21 August

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The Importance of Hiring a Burn Injury Lawyer

Many individuals are surprised to learn that burn injuries can occur in a wide range of professions. Whether your job has you dealing with hot machinery or chemicals, or a rare accident exposed you to a burn, such an accident can leave you or a loved one critically injured and unable to work. For this reason, if you sustained a burn injury in the workplace, you should consider consulting a burn injury lawyer. Here are a few of the reasons you should consider doing so. Experience with Work Related Claims Every company will handle the injury of one of their employees in...

18 August

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When It’s Time to Call a Medical Malpractice Lawyer

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How do you know if you’ve been a victim of medical malpractice? And how do you know if it’s time to find a personal injury lawyer and launch a lawsuit? The answer isn’t as simple as it might initially appear. After all, people who go to the doctor are already sick or injured. How do you demonstrate that your failure to get the results you expected prove that the doctor was negligent or incompetent? In general, medical malpractice can be defined as occurring when a doctor or other practitioner harms his patient through incompetence or negligence. Although what constitutes medical malpractice is...

14 August

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Reasons Why You Might Need a Medical Malpractice Lawyer

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in Medical Malpractice

When you go to a doctor or hospital, you expect the doctor or hospital to make you feel better. Unfortunately, a lot of doctors and hospitals make someone even sicker than they were already. Below are some of the common reasons that you may need a medical malpractice lawyer. Birth Injury You can claim compensation if your child’s born disabled because of incorrect drug administration before child is born or because of an error while the child was born. Negligence of Hospital There are a lot of mistakes that hospitals make that can cause an injury. An example would be if they removed the wrong...

10 August

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Beyond Birth Defects: When You Need Birth Trauma or Birth Injury Lawyers

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in Birth Injuries

Giving birth to a baby who has a significant physical impairment is a shock for any mother. This is especially true when the pregnancy went well and ultrasounds showed no signs of fetal distress. For most new moms, the shock soon gives way to protectiveness. They only want what is best for their new son or daughter. However, that doesn't mean they don't have questions about how the birth injury happened. It's Not Always a Birth Defect When a baby is born with cerebral palsy or another serious complication, the tendency is to assume it is due to a birth defect that...

05 August

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Tips for Riding a Bike In NYC

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in Bicycle Accidents

People love riding their bikes to work and to go to other places. They know that it’s good for the environment and that it saves them money on gasoline. Unfortunately, a lot of people are injured when they are riding their bike. This is often because they are not smart when they are riding their bike and they take risks that they shouldn’t take. Below are some tips that cyclists should use when they are riding their bike to help them with keeping safe while they are riding their bike. These will help ensure that they are going to make...

28 July

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Why You Need Work Accident Lawyers on Your Side

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in Work Accidents

On a typical morning, as you get ready for going to work, you think about all the things you're going to do while on the job. Then you start mentally planning all the fun things you're going to do as soon as your work's done for the day. Never would you have imagined that your normal work day would end up landing you into the emergency unit of your local hospital. Yet that's exactly what's happened. And now, while you're still in recovery from it all, you're getting messages from the company's lawyers about how they plan on compensating you...

03 January

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Can A Birth Trauma/Injury Lawyers Help Your Infant

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in Birth Injuries

The birth of your child is supposed to be one of the most important and exciting points of your life, however that time can become a mix of surprise and worry if something goes wrong in the delivery room and your baby suffers brain damage or a birth injury. There are a variety of situations that can cause brain damage or a birth injury to a newborn during delivery, these include: Delayed C-sections Failure to properly monitor and recognize fetal distress Uterine rupture issues Eclampsia or preeclampsia Improper use of forceps or vacuums A compressed or wrapped umbilical cord There are...

01 January

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NY State Tractor-Trailer Accident Lawyer offers you support

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in Truck Accidents, Vehicle Accidents

Whether you're a driver or a pedestrian using the road, one of the dangers you face is an accident involving a tractor-trailer. 2012 data from the New York State DMV shows that there were over 10,000 accidents involving large trucks in that year alone. They resulted in dozens of fatalities and at least a few thousand nonfatal injuries. Just recently, two tractor-trailer accidents in New York State led to fatalities. In one case, a tractor-trailer struck an SUV carrying two people; in the other case, a tractor-trailer hit a passenger vehicle with no passengers. Both accidents led to the deaths of...

20 November

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NYS Accident Lawyers Discuss Injuries from Forklifts

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Frekhtman & Associates, New York Workers Compensation Lawyers represent victims of personal injury, and work accident injuries. Powered industrial trucks, or fork lifts, are necessary in many kinds of work settings. However, they also pose serious risks to workers and sometimes to bystanders such as pedestrians walking past a work site. Two recent examples of forklift fatalities from New York City involved a worker in Queens who passed away after a forklift fell on him in a warehouse, and a Brooklyn grocery worker who was crushed against a wall by a forklift and died from his chest injuries. Their deaths warrant serious...

17 November

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Do You Need A Brachial Plexus Injury Lawyer in NY

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in Birth Injuries

New York Personal Injury Lawyers, Frekhtman & Associates represent victims of Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice and Brachial Plexus Injury within New York State. When a newborns network of nerves from the spine, collarbone and into their shoulder, hand or arm is injured by being stretched or torn, it is considered a brachial plexus birth injury. This usually happens in cases where their head is pushed away from their shoulders in upwards direction while the shoulder is pressed down forcefully during birth. A birth injury lawyer can help make sure that your medical bills are covered if your newborn is injured during...

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