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Motorcycle Accident In New York City Often Leads To Road Rash And Skin Infections
Daily accidents cause countless bicyclists, skateboarders, runners, pedestrians, and passengers ejected from vehicles to develop different levels of road rash. However, motorcyclists traveling at moderate to high speeds are usually the ones who suffer the most damaging and painful forms of this type of skin abrasion or “friction burn.” Stated simply, road rash develops when a person’s skin rubs hard against rough surfaces like asphalt, gravel, or glass – creating possible cuts and abrasions. Although most cases result in minor harm, it’s wise to have a doctor evaluate accident-related road rash since a serious infection might still develop, increasing the need for you to document all treatment received. When only the top layer of the skin (the epidermis) is involved, the wounds will normally only require thorough cleaning and removal of all foreign substances from the exposed skin. However, when deeper levels of skin are damaged, immediate medical treatment is
EP 08 S 06: How Bankruptcy Can Affect Your Personal Injury Lawsuit
In this episode, we discover how bankruptcy can affect your personal injury lawsuit. Pick Your Favorite Channel: Apple Podcast | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Full Transcript Hi, good morning. My name is Arkady Frekhtman. I’m a personal injury lawyer here in New York City. Today I wanted to talk about how bankruptcy could affect your personal injury case. And this is either a bankruptcy of the plaintiff, the injured person who’s suing, or the defendant, the person you are suing. Either one can become bankrupt. And what bankruptcy does is usually involves three different issues. Number one, the bankruptcy will put a stay, an automatic stay, and a moratorium on the case, on the litigation, because the bankruptcy is usually filed in federal court. Whether it’s a chapter 7, chapter 11, or a type of bankruptcy is filed in federal court and it’ll stay and put
Trench Collapse Accidents Can Cause Many Serious And Fatal Injuries
Workers who dig in trenches are uniquely vulnerable to the safety standards adopted by their employers. Unfortunately, given the serious dangers involved with this work, poorly trained and newer employees are often ordered to dig trenches that should be assigned to more experienced workers. Every year, roughly two dozen workers lose their lives due to collapsing trenches. Before addressing this topic further, it’s important to distinguish between excavations and trenches. Stated simply, excavations tend to only involve ground “cavities” or openings made by workers while trenches involve digging deep holes in the ground that can be up to 15 feet wide. Great care must be taken while a trench is being dug since a single cubic yard of soil can weigh as much as a car. As one government publication notes, special safety precautions must be taken before workers can work in any trench so that it won’t become an
EP 07 S 06: Burn Injury Attorneys Discuss Fire in Bronx Apartment Building
At least 17 people, including eight children, are dead after a five-alarm fire in a residential high-rise building in the Bronx on Sunday, Was It Preventable? Investment Portfolio v. People’s Lives Pick Your Favorite Channel: Apple Podcast | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Full Transcript Good morning, everyone. This is Arkady Frekhtman, a New York personal injury trial attorney coming to you on Monday, January 10th. And recently this past weekend in New York City, we had a tragedy, a fire in the Bronx claimed 19 lives, including nine children with 60 people injured. And as an attorney, sometimes I’m always curious, well, what caused the fire? Even though obviously the first question is what are we going to do for the survivors? How are we going to make them safe? They started temporary housing, I think across the street at a public school and they’re starting
EP 06 S 06: Truck Accident Lawyer reacts to Aguilera-Mederos 110 Years
110 years for the truck driver? What do you think? Pick Your Favorite Channel: Apple Podcast | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Full Transcript Hi everyone. This is attorney Arkady Frekhtman and today I’m reacting to the Aguilera-Mederos sentencing of 110 years. Is that really proper? A lot of people, over four and a half million people, have signed a petition for clemency saying that it’s improper to sentence this truck driver to 110 years in prison. Other people, the people on both sides of the issue, some people say that he should be punished because he was going super fast, he never slowed down. He had runaway ramps, which are like these ramps going up in Colorado, in the hill country, where he could have just steered the vehicle to the right, gone up the ramp, and avoided any kind of crash. But this is a
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Can Provoke Traumatic Brain Injuries
Every year, too many New Yorkers discover that carbon monoxide poisoning can cause traumatic brain injuries. Unfortunately, this type of damage usually occurs before people realize the dangerous level of their exposure. Once a carbon monoxide alarm goes off at work or at home, you must immediately seek out fresh air, while also helping everyone else escape. About 450 Americans die of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning each year, and another 50,000 visit emergency rooms seeking treatment due to their exposure. What follows is a closer look at many of the risky causes of CO poisoning and traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), common symptoms and potential long-term harm, treatment options, and other key facts. What exactly is carbon monoxide? This is a type of gas produced during the burning of various fuels, including gasoline. It is very dangerous since you cannot see or taste it. In fact, this type of gas can