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We have all heard stories about elderly patients being abused in nursing homes.  Unfortunately, it is a constant worry as many of us plan for our parents’ or loved ones’ future once they can no longer care for themselves at home.  Knowing the signs of nursing home abuse and contacting a lawyer who specializes in…

McNeil, a local Montgomery County  healthcare company which produced the medications infant tylenol, children’s tylenol and children’s motrin in its Fort Washington,PA location will have to pay 25 million dollars.  The company recently plead guilty because in 2009 when a consumer alert was issued,indicating there were black specs in the medicine,  the company failed to …

According to an article published in The Legal Intelligencer on December 19, 2014, which was based on data compiled by PaLaw Magazine, verdicts and settlements in Pennsylvania are trending higher.  The average figure of the largest verdicts in 2014 was higher than in 2013.  According to the article, medical malpractice cases dominated the list of…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that there will be reductions in funding for hospitals who provide care for many low income patients, and for hospitals with too many patients who develop infections while in the hospital.  In addition, there will be higher penalties assessed for those hospitals with readmissions within 30…

I was on a family vacation a few months ago and read a billboard that said, “If you want to speak with God, call Him.  If you want to meet Him, text.”  It was a pretty clever billboard, and I remember thinking, wow, even in Costa Rica? I sat at a traffic light on…

Generally, physicians and their liability insurance carriers are required to report all medical malpractice payments to the National Practitioner Data Bank.  Due to a legal loophole that exists in certain states, however, doctors and their insurance companies have be able to avoid reporting medical malpractice settlements that result from a mediation process.  In effort to…

A few weekends ago, I attended a wonderful charity event sponsored by the “Hellraisers Bucks County, LEMC”.  The event was held at the Newportville Firehouse in Newpostville, PA on Sunday, November 2, 2014 to raise money for the mother of one of the members who was able to battle cancer thanks to the “Healing Consciousness…