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Hurricane Sandy Aftermath: How to Get help, How to Help Others, How to Heal Our Communities
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Hurricane Sandy smashed through the Caribbean and into the East Coast of the United States Oct. 28 through 30, killing several hundred people in its path and causing widespread destruction of homes, businesses and public facilities that is expected to total more than $50 billion. Our neighbors in New Jersey and New York were particularly…
Surgical Items Left inside Patients 4,000 times Each Year: What You Need to Know When Having Surgery
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Each year, some 4,000 surgical patients in the United States are seriously injured when items used during their procedures, from sponges to medical instruments, are accidentally left inside their bodies when their medical teams sew them back up. The problem of retained surgical items has been an issue for years and has led surgeons and…
A Cure In Sight For Cerebral Palsy?
| Birth Injuries
An estimated two million Americans live with varying degrees of cerebral palsy (CP). Caused by an injury to the brain before or during birth or in the first few years of life, cerebral palsy has no known cure. There is no one course of treatment that is effective for all who have CP; each case…
Meningitis Death Toll from Contamination Steroid Injections Hits 21, New Cases Continue to Surface
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After getting routine steroid shots to treat various aches and pains, 21 patients from across the United States have died from fungal meningitis connected to contaminated steroid medications provided by a Boston-area pharmacy. So far, 268 cases of the fungal meningitis from the contaminated injectable medications have been reported with more continuing to come in,…
Philadelphia Attorney Dean Weitzman To Discuss The Impact Of Social Media On Litigation in Pennsylvania
| MPL News
Personal Injury Lawyer Dean Weitzman Of MyPhillyLawyer Presents To PA Paralegal Association RELEASED: October 17, 2012 (PHILADELPHIA, PA) On Friday, October 19, Philadelphia personal injury lawyer Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer – will present a continuing education seminar to the Pennsylvania Association of Paralegals (PAP) on the influence of social media on litigation and trial strategy.…
How A Mom Who Lost Two Daughters in a Tragic, Fatal Crash of a Rental Car Fought To Change Laws and Make Rental Cars Safer
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When you rent a car, truck or SUV for a vacation, business trip or other need, you expect that the vehicle is well-maintained and safe to drive. It’s just a common sense expectation. But until recently, that expectation could have been very, very wrong. In the United States, there are presently no laws that forbid…