Errors by doctors, nurses, hospitals and other staff members happen regularly. The best protection for you and your loved ones is to know your rights. A 51-year-old Lehigh Valley nun was admitted into a hospital last Dec. 21 with flu-like symptoms. A little more than two weeks later, she was dead, with her death caused…

Last month, Georgia prison inmate Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for a last-minute stay of execution. Davis had been convicted in the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer but right up until he was put to death, he insisted that he was…

MyPhillyLawyer’s Dean Weitzman will host his weekly Court Radio show tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. on a very important topic — “Is It Time To Rethink The Death Penalty?” Weitzman’s special guest on the program will be Phil Harris, an associate professor of criminal justice at Temple University. His teaching and research have focused primarily…

You go to a concert to hear music and probably don’t think much about the potential dangers, yet the accidents, injuries and deaths are real. In August, seven people were killed and another 45 were injured when high winds from a strong approaching storm caused heavy overhead stage lights and speaker systems to collapse onto…

A ban on teens texting while driving is missing from the new law When Gov. Tom Corbett soon signs into law a long-awaited bill that enacts tougher rules for teen drivers, it will be a good day for the Commonwealth’s teen drivers. In almost every way, it will be a good start toward making teen…

Such incidents are behind a federal effort that’s underway to ban truckers, bus drivers from using cell phones while driving It’s dangerous enough when drivers of automobiles and SUVs operate their vehicles on our roadways while using hand-held cell phones to talk or text. It’s even worse when the driver using the cell phone is…