One of the dangers that Pennsylvania motorists may not consider when sharing the road with tractor trailers is the big rigs are so large, their drivers may not realize that they've been in an accident. There is also the more sinister possibility that a driver involved...
Month: March 2018
St. Patrick’s Day means spike in Pennsylvania DUI crashes
Holidays like St. Patrick's Day appear to be dangerous times for Pennsylvania motorists to be on the state's roads, streets and highways. Revelers tend to have one (or more) too many and then, rather than calling a taxi or an app-based driving service, they get behind...
A $3.4 million award in Pennsylvania medical malpractice case
When a medical professional is presented with the evidence they need to make a diagnosis and yet fails to do so, such a failure may rise to the level of medical malpractice. In some cases, the failure to diagnose results in the worsening of a patient's condition,...
Winter’s second nor’easter wreaks havoc in Schuylkill County
Explosive cyclogenesis transformed the winter's second nor'easter into a deadly bomb cyclone. The dangerous storm caused several major car accidents and road closures across the state of Pennsylvania. While it is natural to attribute such crashes to the weather - and...
Not all medical malpractice is accidental
An oft-heard maxim of health care is "first, do no harm." Medical malpractice may arise when this maxim is violated. Most typically, when the topic of medical malpractice comes up, it involves tales of bungled surgeries, misdiagnoses or even the failure to diagnose an...