Commercial truck collisions generate injury patterns that often involve multiple fractures throughout the body. A single collision may produce fractures of the pelvis, ribs, femur, tibia, spine, or combinations of several major skeletal structures due to the amount of force involved. While a fracture often goes undisputed, disputes often occur as the injuries heal. Months […]
The failure to remove sponges, instruments, needles, fragments, or other operative materials from a patient before ending a surgery is problematic. Although such an event is highly preventable, the litigation surrounding the case frequently extends beyond the mere existence of a retained surgical item. The central legal inquiry usually concerns how the retained material contributed […]
Pharmaceutical failure-to-warn litigation revolves around the concern that a drug manufacturer did not adequately communicate a known risk that was associated with the use of its product. In a case of this nature, the patient experiencing a serious complication after taking the medication in question is not enough. The existence of an injury alone does […]
Life care plans ask a poignant question: What are the long-term cost projections of medical, rehabilitative, and supportive care for an injured individual following a catastrophic injury? In litigation, life care plans are not a generalized estimate for future hardship. Instead, they function as evidentiary frameworks used to quantify future medical damages through structured analysis […]
There are many catastrophic injury cases where the injury itself is not placed as the primary dispute. Medical imaging may confirm spinal damage, traumatic brain injury, fractures, or internal trauma with little disagreement regarding the diagnosis. Litigation, however, focuses on the mechanism: how the injury occurred, whether the forces involved were sufficient to produce the […]