317.582.0000Monthly Archives: September 2020
IN THE NEWS: HEART RHYTHM DRUG POISONED PATIENT’S LUNGS
Often, at Ramey & Hailey Law, by the time we are speaking with a patient – or with that patient’s survivors – about personal injury as a result of medical malpractice, many months or even years have passed since the unfortunate set of events that caused them so much sorrow. Typically, those clients had… Read More »
WHY THE COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION IS IMPORTANT ON THE FLOOR
Just in case you’ve forgotten – this week is Fall Prevention Awareness Week. While many of us are spending more time indoors these days because of the pandemic, falls continue to be a common cause of fatalities, not only in the workplace and when we’re out and about, but in the home. Falls are… Read More »
IN TH NEWS: HIGH SCHOOL STAFF FAILED TO PROTECT STUDENT
Over the summer, Kayla Dillinger claims, she was raped by a classmate from Lutheran High. Now she and her father have filed a Title IX personal injury lawsuit against the school for failing to protect her from sexual assault. (Federal law Title IX protects students of any school that receives government funding.) Claims brought… Read More »
IN PERSONAL INJURY, COMPARATIVE NEGLIGENCE CAN HURT YOUR CAUSE
Have you (or has someone dear to you) paid for a product, only to find out the hard way that not only did this product not perform as expected, it caused severe harm to a user? There may be cause to file a product liability lawsuit. At Ramey & Hailey, we believe it’s important… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: DOUBLE-BOOKED DOCTORS CAUSE PERSONAL INJURY TO PATIENTS
When a single doctor is supervising surgery in two (even three?) different operations rooms (at the same time!) – that sounds like a recipe for personal injury lawsuit. Actually, overlapping surgery is a longstanding practice, JAMA Internal Medicine explains, for several very valid reasons: to improve hospital resource utilization to educate surgical trainees to… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: NEGLIGENCE UNMASKED AT PENNSYVANIA TRIAL
In the state’s first verdict in favor of a civil trial plaintiff since the start of the pandemic (with all trial participants wearing masks except when testifying behind a plexiglass), a Pennsylvania jury has awarded $10.8 million to the father of a young man who suffered permanent brain injury as a result of a … Read More »
