High School Football Injuries Can Be Life-Ending Recently, a lot of media attention has focused on high school students who have been injured while playing football and other contact sports. Football players are particularly susceptible to suffering mild to severe brain injuries, as a result of the repeated hits they take during practice and games.…

On this episode of Court Radio, Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer talks about a case in Detroit where the mother of a teen gunman was charged with involuntary manslaughter for her son’s crimes.

A Southeastern Pennsylvania Transport Authority (SEPTA) passenger recently received a $200,000 verdict after suffering a shoulder injury while riding a SEPTA bus in Philadelphia. The injury occurred in 2019. The plaintiff was riding on a SEPTA bus when he grabbed the overhead handrail. In this lawsuit, the plaintiff claimed he suffered a tear of the…

Refuting Arguments for Tort Reform Tort reform, which is a code phrase for dismantling the civil justice system, has focused in the past decade on limiting the remedies available to victims of medical malpractice by doctors, hospitals and other health care providers. The arguments for doing so are numerous. They are also weak at best…

Philadelphia workers who are injured on the job have the right to receive benefits. Workers’ compensation benefits are designed to cover medical expenses, lost wages, and other costs that employees incur after a workplace accident or injury. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, the statewide average weekly wage for work injuries occurring…

It is essential to understand that there is no crime with the specific name of domestic violence. Instead, a domestic violence charge is laid when a person commits a crime from a list, and that crime is against a person in a domestic relationship with the accused. Also, remember that each case is different, and…