EBay.com is certainly a great place to buy and sell stuff online, from cars to motorcycles to toys and trinkets. But have you ever read all of the pages and pages of the “fine print” in your user agreement with eBay Inc.?  I bet you haven’t, and that creates a bit of a legal quandary…

Physicians have debated the relationship between a low APGAR score and cerebral palsy, especially in children with low birth weight. Although this relationship has previously been inconclusive, a new study by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) indicates a direct association between cerebral palsy and low APGAR scores in children with less than normal…

Recently, the Senate voted down an amendment to the health care reform bill that would have limited the fees that plaintiffs’ attorneys could collect in medical malpractice lawsuits. In the measure proposed by Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev), attorney fees would have been limited to one-third of the first $150,000 recovered in any medical malpractice case.…

Have you been injured in a car accident, construction accident, slip and fall accident or otherwise as the result of another’s negligence or carelessness? If so, you may be reluctant to sue. In this video blog, Attorney Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer explains that insurance companies put money aside specifically for people who are injured. You…

It was supposed to be a summer of swimming and fun for a group of  56 African-American and Hispanic children from a  Northeast Philadelphia daycare center who were to head regularly to a private swim club in the Montgomery County suburbs to beat the heat. Image credit: © iStockphoto.com/paulprescott72 Instead, their first visit turned ugly…

In a recent article, William Bender of the Philadelphia Daily News reports on the atrocity of disabled adult abuse. He rightly points out that Pennsylvania is one of only five states that have no abuse investigation law protecting these vulnerable citizens. As a result, abusers at group homes and other disabled care facilities can simply…