Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice Blog

The attorneys at McLaughlin & Lauricella specialize in areas of practice associated with; medical malpractice & medical negligence, personal injury & accident law, and sexual and hazing abuse.

Our firm’s Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice Blog presents articles and news-worthy issues, commentary, and helpful suggestions associated with a wide range of topics including; auto accidents, negligence, insurance, medical conditions, misdiagnosis, clergy abuse and events associated with Pennsylvania and New Jersey law and legislation.

The accolades and successes of the firm’s founders, Slade McLaughlin and Paul Lauricella are nationally recognized and validated by the big money awards, verdicts and settlements they have won on behalf of their clients.

Pennsylvania Scaffolding Accidents Can Be Deadly

Take a drive around the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and you will see a variety of scaffolding in use on construction projects, both big and small. Scaffolding is a temporary structure, normally set up outside of a building, which is usually made of wood or metal poles. Workers use scaffolding in a variety of ways, including during [...]

Categories: Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice|Tags: Construction Accident, Negligence, workers' compensation|

Do You Know Your Med Mal Lawyer?

Ask Yourself: Do You REALLY Know Who Your Med Mal Lawyer Is Representing Your Case? Be Careful if You Use the Internet to Select the Attorney Who Will Represent You in Your Medical Malpractice Lawsuit. People are using the internet to find lawyers (if you are reading this, that's exactly what you are probably doing), and [...]

Categories: Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice|Tags: Insurance|

How To Choose A Medical Malpractice Lawyer

"Medical Malpractice" is a legal term used when a person is harmed by the carelessness and/or negligence and/or lack of reasonable medical care of a doctor, hospital, or other healthcare provider. Medical malpractice is loosely defined as a violation of professional standards of care which causes harm to the patient. Many lawyers claim to “specialize” in [...]

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The Staggering Costs of Living with a Spinal Cord Injury

The most common cause of spinal cord injury is trauma, and nearly half of all spinal cord injuries are caused by motor vehicle accidents. The Staggering Costs of Living with a Spinal Cord Injury Other types of trauma resulting in spinal cord injuries are falls from heights, sporting injuries, and violence (gunshot wounds to [...]

Categories: Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice|Tags: Head Injury, paraplegia, Spinal Cord Injuries, tetriplegia|

Amputation – Lifelong Costs

Nearly two million people in the United States are currently living with the loss of a limb. Vascular diseases, such as diabetes and peripheral arterial disease, are the primary causes (54%) of limb loss. However, trauma is the next most common cause of limb loss at 45%, with the remaining one percent of limb loss being [...]

Categories: Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice|Tags: Accident Victims, Amputee, Crushed, Machinery Accident|

Living With Chronic Pain After An Accident

At any given moment in the United States, more than 100 million people are suffering from chronic pain, resulting in a cost of $600 billion per year in lost productivity and medical treatments. Because children and military personnel are not included in that figure, many believe the numbers are much higher. Chronic pain is most often [...]

Categories: Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice|Tags: Chronic Illness, chronic pain, Misdiagnosis, Negligence|

Liability – Traumatic Brain & Head Injury and Aging

Researchers at the Imperial College of London recently analyzed the brain scans of 1500 healthy people. The goal of analyzing these brains was to create software which would be able to accurately predict a person's age from a brain scan. The program was used to estimate "brain age" of 113 healthy people as well as 99 [...]

Categories: Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice|Tags: Brain Aging, Head Injury, seizures|

Medical Malpractice – What’s New? – An Interview with Slade McLaughlin, Esq.

This article was planned with a different focus. The Citi Private Bank study discussed in a recent Philadelphia Business Journal gave statistical proof to what has been apparent about the local job market and provoked this investigation into what might be happening in a specific practice area. Slade H. McLaughlin We thought an examination [...]

Categories: Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice|Tags: punitive damages, technology|

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