When you go to a doctor for medical treatment, you expect that your illness will be properly diagnosed and treated. That, however, isn’t always the case. Medical misdiagnosis is a frequent source of lawsuits on behalf of patients who have suffered, been grievously injured or died after incorrect medical diagnoses that led to the wrong…

Imagine you are stopped by the police for suspected drunken driving and you submit to a Breathalyzer test. That evidence, whatever it determines, will be used against you in court, so it had better be right. But what if it’s not right – what if the police used a Breathalyzer unit that wasn’t properly calibrated…

Dean I. Weitzman, the managing partner of MyPhillyLawyer, will be inducted today as one of nine new board members for The Philadelphia Martin Luther King, Jr. Association for Nonviolence, Inc. Weitzman and the other new members will join the group’s board in ceremonies at the offices of Herman J. “Pete” Matthews, president of AFSCME District…

With the weather gradually getting nicer and warmer in the Delaware Valley, it’s time for us all to remember springtime safety. We all need to be more conscious of all the motorcyclists, bicyclists, runners and walkers who are again showing up in force on area roadways. More and more children will be outside playing with…

It’s a never ending cat and mouse game – drivers speed and police look to catch them in the act. In the last several years, though, police in some locales around the U.S. have gained a crafty new tool – high-tech video “speed cameras” that can take photos of speeding vehicles.  Those photos are then…

Every minute, every day, someone is injured across this country. People are killed or injured seriously in vehicle accidents, they’re hurt in falls in workplaces or in public places, and they’re hurt in a wide range of incidents that we don’t even think about until it happens. In Barnesville, Minn., a 51-year-old man was killed…