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According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, half of the nursing homes in the Unites States are understaffed. It is illegal for a nursing home to neglect or abuse its residents. There are state and federal laws that were passed to protect nursing home residents and to guarantee them certain rights. There are many [...]

Philadelphia Birth Injury Attorney Helps Family Find Answers I often remind families of children with birth injuries to never stop asking doctors, nurses, or therapists for answers to their many questions after a medical mistake. That’s what one of my clients Mary did to find out what was causing the developmental delays in her son [...]

“He has a contagious laugh and that smile,” said Maureen Kijek to a Detroit radio station, about her son Drew. He’s an 11-year-old boy at the center of a ground breaking Federal Drug Administration approved trial involving stem cell replacement to treat cerebral palsy. As a Philadelphia birth injury attorney that has helped hundreds of [...]

Philadelphia Birth Injury Attorney Knows Never Doubt a Mom’s Intuition For almost 9 months, Mary and her husband looked forward to welcoming a healthy baby boy into the family. The couple even started looking ahead at the many wonderful   milestones they would face together as a family. Unfortunately, after hours in labor at the hospital, [...]

Philadelphia Birth Injury Attorney Discusses Hospitals’ Secrets As a Philadelphia birth injury attorney, I have helped hundreds of families battle hospitals because of preventable medical mistakes that have caused serious injury. For the victims such mistakes, the battle can be long, expensive and an often impossible journey. According to a recent article in Time entitled, [...]

Philadelphia Birth Injury Attorney Eases Mother’s Stress The stress of raising a child with a birth injury such as cerebral palsy can be overwhelming. As a new parent of a child with such a birth injury, you are thrown into a world that you’ve never experienced and are constantly trying to learn as you go. [...]

When you go to the hospital, you expect and trust the people working there to be trained medical professionals that can help you in your time of need. One of our clients, Christina, was admitted to a hospital pregnant with her daughter but when she checked out, her once healthy baby girl had devastating, permanent [...]

Philadelphia Birth Injury Attorney Understands a Grandmother’s Anger There are many times as a parent that we become angry. Sometimes it’s small things that quickly pass and other times, as a Grandmother of one of my clients found, it’s life altering events that fuel the anger. Sometimes, however, the anger we feel can and does [...]

Philadelphia Birth Injury Attorney Reminds Families There Are Options A day does not go by that I’m not reassured that my decision to become a Philadelphia birth injury attorney was the right choice for me. Helping Crista Wells and her family battle the medical industry after a preventable and devastating birth injury left her child [...]

Philadelphia Birth Injury Attorney Deals With Shattered Dreams For 40 weeks, Crista Wells spent many long days and nights planning to welcome a new baby girl into her family. For her, it was going to be “her best friend in the whole world”. During that time, Crista often dreamed of those first few moments when [...]