Yet another article about medical malpractice appeared in my favorite newspaper yesterday. The New York Times reports, in an article titled, “When Surgeons Leave Objects Behind” that surgeons in the U.S. leave an estimated 4,000 “surgical items” inside their patients every year, the vast majority of which are surgical sponges…
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New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer On New Medical Error Reporting System
I get calls and emails almost every week from medical malpractice victims, yes, truly malpracticed patients, yet I turn most of them down. Why? It kills me to explain this to them, but the truth is that often the harm they suffered is not worth the cost of bringing a…
Meet The Michaels Bersani Kalabanka Racing Team
There are of course many Central New York bicycle accident lawyers. Some good, some not so good. But do any of them, besides us, have a bicycle team named after them? I think not! Meet the Michaels Bersani Kalabanka Racing team. Yes, the eponymous (look it up!) team in this…
Central And Syracuse NY Trial Lawyer Continues To Learn
Fellow New York personal injury lawyers (and would-be ones) let me tell you about a free online subscription I just love. Eliot Wilcox, a Florida trial lawyer, runs a great blog with an email subscription to a weekly trial skills review. It is a three minute read each Friday, and…
Changing The Medical Malpractice Culture — A Daunting Task, Explains Syracuse NY Medical Malpractice Lawyer
Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine cancer surgeon and researcher, was interviewed online about his new book titled, “Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care”. The title tells it like it is. Here are some key quotes from his interview: •…
Another Bicycle Tragedy in Ontario County, NY
I read with sadness today in the Finger Lakes Times that a 14-year old Clyde, New York teenager was struck and killed by a motor vehicle while biking to school this morning on Clyde-Marengo Road in Galen. This is sad, sad, sad. As the father of two teenagers, who both…
Oh No! Central NY Car Accident Lawyer’s Kid Starts To Drive.
The kid standing behind me in this photo, trying his hand at hair styling, is my oldest son Sebastian. (Don’t worry – he has already ruled out hair styling as a career option.) On September 30 he will turn 16. Yesterday he announced that we are going to the DMV…
Central NY Injury Lawyer Goes On Tour!
I am going on tour again this fall. Tickets are still available to catch my show. Email me and I’ll make sure you get in. My itinerary? Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Syracuse and New York. Bruce Springsteen performed in all those places. But unlike Bruce, when I am done with my…
So-Called “Independent” Medical Exams In New York Personal Injury Cases
Today I accompanied a wreck of a man — a severely injured car wreck victim — to a so-called “independent” medical examination (“IME”). (You will see why I say “so called” soon enough.) The poor guy got t-boned a few years ago and ever since has suffered horrible pain emanating…
“New York Times Slip-and-Fall Reporting Sucks”, Says Central NY Injury Lawyer
The New York Times just published a story titled, “A Fatal Slip on the Stairs Cuts Short a Life at 29“. Deaths in slip-and-fall cases are rare. Especially in someone that young. Usually you get fractured wrists or knees. So, an article with a title like that piqued the interest…