Posted on January 12th, 2023 by Elizabeth
Hospitals are supposed to be a safe place where people go to get treatment and get well. Sadly, many patients get worse in the hospital. Nearly one in four admissions suffer adverse events, according to The New England Journal of Medicine. Nearly a quarter of these adverse events were preventable. Patient safety and continued improvement […]
Posted on November 19th, 2019 by Elizabeth
All aspects of an infant’s care need to be handled meticulously when they are born prematurely or with complications. The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is supposed to be one of the safest places in a hospital, but at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, three infants died after being fed infected breast milk in […]
Posted on August 27th, 2018 by Elizabeth
There is no way to describe the trauma of losing a loved one under tragic, preventable circumstances. When the initial shock has worn off and grief is still being managed, questions will begin to arise: How could this wrongful death have been prevented? Who is at fault for this loss? Can I seek damages?
Posted on August 20th, 2018 by Elizabeth
Sandor Szabo was punched in the face, fell, and hit his head on the pavement. He lost consciousness, suffered facial fractures and skull fractures, and experienced bleeding in his brain. Two days later, he was taken off life support and died. Szabo was drunkenly tapping on cars in Long Island City looking for his Uber […]
Posted on August 3rd, 2018 by Elizabeth
Parents have plenty of worries about sending their child off to college. Wrongful death is usually not one of them. One family, however, is living through such a nightmare. Timothy Piazza was a 19-year-old sophomore and fraternity pledge at Penn State University when he died in February 2017 after drinking large quantities of alcohol in […]
Hospitals are supposed to be a safe place where people go to get treatment and get well. Sadly, many patients get worse in the hospital....
A recent study by Michigan State University found an increase in freeway car accidents and fatalities over the last five years. The cause for this...
In July 2020, a financial amnesty period began in Michigan to shield drivers who let their car insurance lapse. Under this rule, they would not...
