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. (more…)

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 (more…)