An estimated two million Americans live with varying degrees of cerebral palsy (CP). Caused by an injury to the brain before or during birth or in the first few years of life, cerebral palsy has no known cure. There is no one course of treatment that is effective for all who have CP; each case…

After getting routine steroid shots to treat various aches and pains, 21 patients from across the United States have died from fungal meningitis connected to contaminated steroid medications provided by a Boston-area pharmacy. So far, 268 cases of the fungal meningitis from the contaminated injectable medications have been reported with more continuing to come in,…

Personal Injury Lawyer Dean Weitzman Of MyPhillyLawyer Presents To PA Paralegal Association RELEASED: October 17, 2012 (PHILADELPHIA, PA) On Friday, October 19, Philadelphia personal injury lawyer Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer – will present a continuing education seminar to the Pennsylvania Association of Paralegals (PAP) on the influence of social media on litigation and trial strategy.…

When you rent a car, truck or SUV for a vacation, business trip or other need, you expect that the vehicle is well-maintained and safe to drive. It’s just a common sense expectation. But until recently, that expectation could have been very, very wrong. In the United States, there are presently no laws that forbid…

On this older episode of Court Radio, Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer and David M. Rapaport answers legal questions from callers. Later, they talk to Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the estate of Trayvon Martin, on the lawsuit revolving around Trayvon’s death. The interview with Crump begins at the 21 minutes mark of the show. Finally,…

The family of a 53-year-old woman who died after surgery won a $6 million jury verdict in York County in a recent wrongful death case against the medical team that treated her. In what is believed to be the largest York County jury award in several years, the jury ruled in favor of the family…