High School Football Injuries Can Be Life-Ending Recently, a lot of media attention has focused on high school students who have been injured while playing football and other contact sports. Football players are particularly susceptible to suffering mild to severe brain injuries, as a result of the repeated hits they take during practice and games.…

It is the scenario no patient ever wants to endure: having an illness or injury, going to the hospital only to have the condition worsen because of a doctor’s mistake. Unfortunately, thousands of patients across the country unwittingly become part of this vicious cycle. Take the case of Ryan and Leah Jeffers, whose two-year-old daughter…

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common childhood disability, according to the website cerebral palsy.org. Around 1,000,000 people in the United States have the condition. It is considered to be a movement disorder caused by abnormalities in the areas of the brain that control muscle movement. Most children with cerebral palsy are born with the…

On this episode of Court Radio, Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer talks about a case in Detroit where the mother of a teen gunman was charged with involuntary manslaughter for her son’s crimes.

Large medical malpractice payouts (“catastrophic claims”) make up less than 1 percent of all medical payments in the U.S. As lead author Marty Makary notes, the assertion that medical malpractice lawsuits raise health care costs is simply not true. Repeated studies continue to debunk the medical malpractice myths perpetuated by insurance industry lobbyists and some…