When Superstorm Sandy slammed into the East Coast in late October, it decimated the New Jersey shore, lower Manhattan and Staten Island in New York and severely damaged property and homes in a wide swath of states. The clean-up continues, often slowly, as winter quickly approaches, complicating the recovery process for thousands of families and…

Car crashes happen every day when drivers least expect them. But knowing what to do if you, your passengers and your vehicle are struck by a distracted, drunk, inattentive or dangerous driver piloting another vehicle is critical. Just last week, five people were injured, including three seriously, when a speeding car ran through a stop…

The maker of an implantable vaginal mesh device is being sued by a Texarkana, Texas, woman after the surgery with the device led to her suffering serious injuries. In a case filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Sally H. York is suing Ethicon Inc., the maker of the Gynecare Prosima Pelvic Floor Repair System,…

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…

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…

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,…