Medical Malpractice Cases And You: Lessons Learned
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on October 20th, 2011
Errors by doctors, nurses, hospitals and other staff members happen regularly. The best protection for you and your loved ones is to know your rights. A 51-year-old Lehigh Valley nun was admitted into a hospital last Dec. 21 with flu-like symptoms. A little more than two weeks later, she was dead, with her death caused by "therapeutic misadventure," in a ruling by a Lehigh County coroner. In a separate case, a 62-year-old Philadelphia man had...
The Death Penalty in the United States: Is It Time To Rethink Our Views?
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on October 15th, 2011
Last month, Georgia prison inmate Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for a last-minute stay of execution. Davis had been convicted in the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer but right up until he was put to death, he insisted that he was innocent of the crime. Sure, that's what suspects usually say after they are apprehended, but in this case, many thousands...
Is It Time To Rethink the Death Penalty? Listen In Sunday at 7 AM on MyPhillyLawyer Court Radio
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on October 15th, 2011
MyPhillyLawyer's Dean Weitzman will host his weekly Court Radio show tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. on a very important topic -- "Is It Time To Rethink The Death Penalty?" Weitzman's special guest on the program will be Phil Harris, an associate professor of criminal justice at Temple University. His teaching and research have focused primarily on the areas of juvenile justice, juvenile correctional strategies, and organizational and system development. He received his Ph.D. from the...
Stage Collapse Incidents: The Show Must Go On But At Whose Expense?
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on October 11th, 2011
You go to a concert to hear music and probably don't think much about the potential dangers, yet the accidents, injuries and deaths are real. In August, seven people were killed and another 45 were injured when high winds from a strong approaching storm caused heavy overhead stage lights and speaker systems to collapse onto a waiting crowd at a Sugarland concert at the Indiana Fair, according to a story in The New York Times....
Tougher rules for teen drivers in Pa. don’t go far enough
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on September 29th, 2011
A ban on teens texting while driving is missing from the new law When Gov. Tom Corbett soon signs into law a long-awaited bill that enacts tougher rules for teen drivers, it will be a good day for the Commonwealth's teen drivers. In almost every way, it will be a good start toward making teen drivers safer in Pennsylvania, but sadly, the law was diluted before it passed the state House and Senate. What was...
Truck driver in deadly train-truck crash was using a cell phone just before impact
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on September 28th, 2011
Such incidents are behind a federal effort that's underway to ban truckers, bus drivers from using cell phones while driving It's dangerous enough when drivers of automobiles and SUVs operate their vehicles on our roadways while using hand-held cell phones to talk or text. It's even worse when the driver using the cell phone is operating a huge, 80,000-pound tractor-trailer, which takes longer to stop and is much less nimble or controllable than a much...
Reno, Martinsburg Air Show Plane Crash Deaths: What You Need To Know
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on September 25th, 2011
In the last two weeks, 10 spectators and 2 aircraft pilots have died in crashes at two separate air show events in Reno, Nevada, and Martinsburg, W.V. The deaths have reverberated across the air show community nationwide as people struggle to make sense of the tragedies. In the Reno crash, a 74-year-old pilot – a veteran aviator -- crashed his World War II-era Mustang P51 plane during a national air race, nosediving into a crowd...
MyPhillyLawyer sponsoring Variety’s Oct. 19 “Kids With Heart Talent Show”
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on September 21st, 2011
MyPhillyLawyer is proud to announce that it is serving as the Presenting Sponsor for the 2011 "Kids With Heart Talent Show," which is hosted by Variety – The Children's Charity of Greater Philadelphia. The event will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at The Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street, starting at 6 p.m. and will feature performances by many of the children who are clients of the longtime children's charity here in the Delaware...
The Tragedies of 9/11 Continue: Sickened First Responders Still Paying the Price For Their Bravery
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on September 10th, 2011
Today, on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America, it is a day of remembrance and reflection. It's also a day to remember the hundreds to thousands of first responders who continue to have major health problems after they jumped into the ruins of the demolished Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York that day without thinking about anything but helping victims who might have survived...