Ginsberg and Broome Legal Blog

Someone you know may have undergone eye surgery, only to have worse eye conditions. Or maybe you or your loved ones could be facing this situation.

Lasik eye surgery procedure is meant to correct faulty or myopic vision. It is supposed to be a quick and easy way to improve nearsightedness. But, something could go wrong in the surgery procedure, leading to severe dry eye syndrome, debilitating visual symptoms (like double vision and halos) and even loss of vision in worst cases. In such cases, this may constitute New York City medical malpractice. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you know about the potential risk of dangerous drugs in New York City? Do you know that your prescription drug may have side effects? Did you read the label on the bottles? Are there precautions included?

Many people take their prescription drugs without reading the fine print: warnings of risks and side effects of such drugs. These must be considered. In 2007, GlaxosmithKline agreed to the request of FDA to include a warning label called “black-box” on Avandia (approved to treat type 2 diabetes). The warning was to say that Avandia may cause or worsen heart failure. Patients who took this medicine needed close monitoring! Prior to this, there was clinical trials proved significant increase in heart attack risk and heart-related deaths in patients taking these drugs. Any heart victim due to Avandia intake can make a legal claim for damages!

Food & Drug Administration (FDA) scientists are not confident about the agency‘s monitoring of the safety of prescription drugs being sold now. There are many prescription and over-the-counter drugs being sold to millions of consumers. These drugs have possible side effects, as evidenced by recent recalls of drugs. The problem is that the recall of these drugs could only be done in very serious cases. Others with possible risks and side effects are still circulating in the market and maybe even without proper warning risks due to lack of proof.

We normally buy over-the-counter medicine. Find out about them and check the labels for precautions and warnings. Bear in mind that there could be possible risks especially for your children.

If in any case you or your loved is affected due to such a matter, The New York City Dangerous Drug Lawyers GINSBERG & BROOME P.C. is ready to help you with our free consultation at (212) 227-4225. We also provide the best of legal service in this type of litigation case.

Your hospital doctor prescribes a certain medicine. But, your New York HMO doctor decides to substitute it with a generic drug which costs less. Our New York City Medical Malpractice Lawyers identify this as health care malpractice if you end up suffering due to this.

Whether you are aware of it or not, such things happen. To save costs, your HMO doctor switches to an alternative drug or treatment. In some cases, your HMO doctor does not Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, you may not be aware of this. But birth injuries could be caused by New York City medical malpractice. It is important that you or friends and loved ones are aware of this.

During childbirth, an infant may suffer a physical injury or deformity that is directly related to the result of being born. Through the course of a delivery, a baby could suffer injury. Some of the possible causes of New York birth injury are breech delivery, delayed Cesarean section, placenta abruption and failure to notice fetal distress. Read the rest of this entry »

Shall we say that New York personal injury law is a right or a responsibility?

Straightaway, it is clear that personal injury and other civil laws are most definitely rights. Perhaps, then, our question is whether or not they also represent responsibilities.

Perhaps we can see personal injury laws - medical malpractice, accident, injury, construction accidents and the like - as muscles. Muscles exist whether they are used or not, but their condition depends very much on frequent exercise. Muscles also exist in the right places, where they are needed  most frequently and able to have the greatest effect.

Personal injury law is kept healthy by frequent “exercise” in the civil legal system. This keeps our laws and statues sharp and relevant, forever under the scrutiny of the best legal minds of the day. In a healthy, exercised body, the working of the muscles influences all the other systems. So is the case in the law, in which the exercise of the court system influences the work of the judicial and executive systems. The entire structure is stimulated and maintained by frequent “work outs.”

So now we can see the importance of the private citizen, who initiates each round of exercise, by exercising his or her right to justice. Bearing in mind that civil laws and statues exist where they are most readily and frequently needed, like muscles, it is clear that these statues address common wrongs in our daily lives. When private citizens do not exercise their rights after being wronged, atrophy occurs.

Where would our medical system be if those citizens unfortunate enough to be subject to medical negligence simply passed it off as bad “luck of the draw”? How many more patients would have and would continue to suffer the same fate? Is it not clear that these citizens, unlucky as they were, bore a responsibility to exercise their rights? Exercise is a pun here, and a most definitely intended one: to exercise the rights is to exercise the civil muscles of the country and keep our system strong.

There are many reasons not to contact a New York City medical malpractice lawyer. Any person who finds him/herself on the receiving end of negligent or inferior medical care can name plenty of motivations for staying silent: fear, hassle, intimidation, to name just a few. And yet, both the legal system and all citizens need the exercise of the legal system to keep it strong and healthy, able to fulfill its duty of protecting its citizens. This is to say, in a roundabout fashion, that personal injury law allows us - compels us - to exercise our rights to keep the system strong for one another, to protect one another

So, New York City personal injury law: right or responsibility? Yes.

New York is a modern urban landscape with sidewalks, parking lots, escalators, and subways.  Therefore, accidents happen.  A misstep is easy enough, usually resulting in bruised pride and backside.  You should know that personal injury (tor) law makes a clear statements about these types of occurrences, called “Slip and Fall Accidents.”  If another party fulfilling his/her/its duty could have prevented the incident – spreading salt on a winter sidewalk or keeping clutter out of a public aisle – the grounds may exist for a personal injury case.  In such cases, a New York City personal injury attorney is invaluable in assessing the merits of a case.

Slip-and-fall cases may be sees by some as abusive of our legal system, as frivolous, they can in fact be quite serious.  These accidents are usually one of four types:

1)    trip and fall (foreign object on the walking surface)
2)    stump and fall (an obstacle in the walking surface)
3)    step and fall (an unanticipated hole in the walking surface)
4)    slip and fall (shoes lose grip on the walking surface)

We have each experienced all of these in various forms, from Read the rest of this entry »

New York city is in the midst of a crisis in medical malpractice law, a division of personal injury law. For the average man or woman on the street, this is common knowledge, old news. Across demographics, attorneys, medical professionals, even average citizens are familiar with the buzz across the country: at large, the nation is witnessing unprecedented overuse and abuse of the medical malpractice laws of the civil court system. Court dockets have become hopelessly clogged, tax money is wasted, and, perhaps worst, for the average citizen, confidence in the legal system of this country has been depleted and squandered.

Except that it’s not true.

However, Read the rest of this entry »