The majority of people regard crosswalks as a safe spot to cross the street. The law commonly provides pedestrians in crosswalks the right of way. Nevertheless lawsuits regarding pedestrian hit by a vehicle while in a crosswalk are all too common. Accidents with pedestrians may lead to fractures, limb amputations and even death. Below we examine several lawsuits resulting from such accidents.

Teenage drivers are at greater risk of being involved in a motor vehicle accident. Even a quick look at recent accounts of accidents caused by teenage drivers shows that they can result in severe injuries and possibly fatalities. This article examines a variety of reported severe motor vehicle accidents and how an experienced motor vehicle accident lawyer can help victims and their families.

Suppose you are a passenger seriously hurt in a car accident. The drivers, however, followed all the standard rules of the road and all posted signs or controls. This article considers how the law firm that handled such a claim identified those liable for altering the road conditions leaving the intersection without a one-way sign. The law firm reported recovering a $4.5 million settlement.

This article explores what happens when an adult patient tells their doctor they are seeing blood in their stool, and without tests to rule out colon cancer, the doctor tells the patient that the blood is probably just from hemorrhoids. This mistake could delay detection of the cancer until it is late stage and the doctor may be liable for medical malpractice.

Visualize telling your doctor about symptoms that could be from prostate cancer for 5 years; your doctor observes your symptoms and abnormal test outcomes during that time; yet your doctor never repeats a biopsy beyond the first year. Then envision discovering that now you have advanced prostate cancer. Exactly this type of scenario and the resulting lawsuit are discussed in this article.

Being informed by a physician you have hemorrhoids and do not have to be concerned about blood in the stool can be very comforting. If the blood turns out to be from colon cancer which then goes undetected until it metastasizes and treatment is no longer an option the doctor might have committed medical malpractice and you might have a lawsuit against that physician.

An Erb's palsy injury can leave an infant with a severe lifelong disability including the loss of motor control, sensation and even the use of an arm. Although it is possible that the injury was unavoidable, it may be because of too much pressure by the physician who delivered the infant. Under those circumstances, the physician might be liable for medical malpractice. This article explores how.

There are two mistakes that doctors appear to make most often when it comes to diagnosing breast cancer. As a consequence of these errors, a female patient's cancer might not be discovered until it has reached an advanced stage. If either mistake is made by a doctor and there is enough of a delay diagnosing the woman's breast cancer, she might have a malpractice lawsuit against that doctor.

Blood tests are used by doctors to check for potentially harmful conditions that might not easily be discovered by a physical examination. The doctor accordingly ought to follow up if the results are abnormal In one documented matter a man's doctor did not follow up and as a result delayed the man's diagnosis of colon cancer until it was advanced.

Attorneys who handle colon cancer lawsuits see an all too common mistake made by physicians that can result in truly tragic outcomes: doctors who, without any testing to rule out the possibility of cancer, tell patients who report seeing blood in their stool that they just have hemorrhoids. If this delays diagnosing a patient's cancer, that doctor may face a malpractice claim.

This article reviews a recorded malpractice case alleging 3 physicians involved in the care of a man with urinary complaints did not diagnose his prostate cancer. The doctors made diagnostic errors and did not appropriately communicate test results and recommendations to the patient and to each other. When the man was diagnosed he had metastatic prostate cancer.

Doctors generally use two tests to screen males for prostate cancer - the physical examination of the prostate and the PSA blood test. Most doctors concur: abnormal results trigger the need for follow up. This article reviews why a patient may be able to pursue a medical malpractice claim if a physician tests him for cancer but does not tell him or follow up after the tests come back abnormal.