Why You Need A Living Will: To Protect Your Wishes and Your Family’s Sanity
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on November 10th, 2011
When 55-year-old Maryland resident Daniel Sanger suffered a heart attack this past July, it caused life-altering brain damage and began a sad legal battle that quickly pitted his wife against his mother and brother. After the heart attack, he was unable to swallow solid food normally, which kept him from getting adequate nourishment, according to a news story from The Associated Press. He was put on a feeding tube, but it was later removed at...
MyPhillyLawyer Attorney Profile: Kenneth C. Edelin Jr. Brings Criminal Defense Experience and Respect for His Clients to His Work
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on October 31st, 2011
After graduating from Morehouse College with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1990, Ken Edelin Jr. went to work as a counselor in a Washington, D.C. community-based shelter for teens who got themselves into very serious trouble with the law. The shelter was a place for them to stay until the courts decided what to do with them, including options from probation to prison. [caption id="attachment_1472" align="alignright" width="161" caption="Kenneth C. Edelin Jr. "][/caption] It was...
Injured on the job when a massive tornado leveled Joplin, Mo., Mark Lindquist’s worker’s comp claims were denied – until a public outcry finally brought justice
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on October 29th, 2011
A classic example for why you need a lawyer to represent you when talking with insurance companies COURT RADIO ALERT: This case will be the topic of MyPhillyLawyer's weekly Court Radio program tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. ET: Listen in to Court Radio with MyPhillyLawyer's Dean Weitzman on 100.3 WRNB FM, Philadelphia or at RNBPHILLY.com and join the discussion live on the air. When a massive EF-5 tornado hit Joplin, Mo., last May 22, 51-year-old...
MyPhillyLawyer Attorney Profile: Saul L. Langsam, Founding Partner and Compassionate Advocate for His Clients
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on October 27th, 2011
As a boy, Saul Langsam was encouraged and inspired by his parents to do something good in the world, to make a mark, to help people. His parents, who were both born in Poland, were Holocaust survivors who were held in separate German prison camps during World War II. Somehow they survived, eventually ending up in Sweden after the war, where they met and later married. Langsam was born in Falun, Sweden, and lived there...
What You Need To Know if You Are Involved in a Car Accident: Listen in at 7 am Sunday on MyPhillyLawyer’s Court Radio
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on October 22nd, 2011
MyPhillyLawyer’s Dean Weitzman will host his weekly Court Radio show tomorrow morning, Sunday, at 7 a.m. on a very important topic — “What You Need to Know If You Are Involved in a Car Accident.” Court Radio is broadcast every Sunday at 7 a.m. on WRNB 100.3 FM in the Philadelphia metropolitan area or listen live over the Internet. Click the “Listen Live” button on the top right to hear the live broadcast from anywhere....
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...
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...