Workplace Accidents
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- Workplace Accidents
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- Workplace Accidents Michael L. Goldberg: Industrial accidents involve a variety of workplace injuries. They can be caused by gas explosions, exposure to toxic chemicals or falls at a construction site. We have experience handling these types of cases and dealing with OSHA investigators who are called in to investigate workplace accidents. Workplace accidents are different from other types of accidents in that there may be a worker's compensation claim against your employer, in addition to a third party claim against another party whose negligence caused the accident. We make sure that every defendant is held accountable for your injury.
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- Personal Injury
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- Personal Injury Michael L. Goldberg: We've handled numerous personal injury claims, including herniated disks that required fusion, rotator cuff injuries, fractured bones and other orthopedic injuries. We've also handled burn injury claims, brain injuries and spinal cord injuries. Each injury and each case is different, but our approach is the same. First and foremost, we try to learn about how you've been affected by your injury. We talk to relatives, spouses, friends and neighbors to find out his information. We also put together medical boards, story boards that show the surgery you've been through and the kind of injury that you've suffered. We'll also hire experts. We hire economists, vocational rehabilitation experts to explain your loss wages claim, how your ability to earn money has been decreased because of your injury. We may also hire a life care planner to explain your future medical needs and the costs of any future medical care and treatment. We put this all together, and we're able to take this information and explain it to the jury so they'll understand what you've been through also.
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- Motorcycle Accidents
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- Motorcycle Accidents Brian D Rogers: Too often we are called by family members or loved ones of motorcyclists who have been involved in a motorcycle collision with a car or truck. Unfortunately the consequences of these types of collisions are usually fatal to motorcyclists. We have to work hard to overcome jury bias that motorcyclists are speeders. In addition to that, most of these cases are left turn cases or lane change cases. In those instances, the defendant invariably will tell us, I did not see the motorcyclist. The motorcyclist was not invisible. They did not see the motorcyclist because they weren't paying attention or were distracted on a cell phone, had fatigued mind, or had been drinking. We work hard to overcome the jury bias. Part of what we do is accident reconstruction with motorcyclists. We actually set up a motorcycle and a stunt driver that tries to replicate what happened. These are under controlled circumstances and we've got some examples for you to see. We work hard to make sure motorcyclists have the same rights to use our roads safely, and to get their families justice.
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- Boating Accidents
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- Boating Accidents Michael L. Goldberg: Our lakes and waterways are enjoyed by thousands of people each year. We all enjoy spending time in the water. In the spring, summer, and even in the fall. But sometimes, people are injured because of the negligence or recklessness of boat operators. Boating accidents often cause severe injuries because of the speed of the vessel, and because of the dangerousness of the propeller. We have represented victims of boating accidents on numerous occasions with successful results.
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- Auto Accidents
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- Auto Accidents Brian D. Rogers: Our firm handles a variety of automobile suits. Personal auto, commercial vehicles, trucks, trains, buses, motorcycles, bicycles, pedestrian suits. We work with accident reconstructionists to help recreate how the collision occurred to understand the dynamics of the collision to explain to a jury. We work with engineers to determine if there was a product defect that either caused the collision or affected the injuries. And finally we work with animators who will simulate how the collision occurred to show it to the jury.
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- Spinal Cord Injuries
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- Spinal Cord Injuries Brian D. Rogers: Spinal cord injuries can be life changing events for many of our clients. There are three basic types of spinal cord injuries. Uniplegia, where you have the loss of use of one limb, and that often results from a brachial plexus injury where the nerves are actually pulled out of the spinal cord usually in the shoulder area. Paraplegia, where the client cannot use their limbs, often has difficulty regulating body temperature and urinary and bowel functions and, then quadriplegia, which affects all four limbs. It has the same complications as paraplegia and additions the patient or client has difficulty operating a power chair. These injuries are life altering and need careful work from both damages and liability to make sure the client gets an adequate recovery to provide for the rest of their days.
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- Slip and Fall
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- Slip and Fall Michael L. Goldberg: Slip and fall cases are divided into two different categories: foreign substances and static conditions. Foreign substances are things that fall onto the ground and should be picked up during a normal routine inspection. It can be water, food particles, or any kind of object that shouldn't be there. Static conditions, on the other hand, are permanent conditions; things such as curbs, parking bumpers and ramps. In order to prevail in a case involving a foreign substance, you have to prove that the property owner's inspection procedures were not reasonable. In other words, if they followed reasonable inspection procedures, they would have seen the foreign substance and removed it before somebody was injured. In a static condition case, you must prove that the property owner knew there was a problem with the static condition, that it posed a hazard to people on the premises. One manner of doing this is to show that static condition injured other people in the past. Now these cases often end up getting dismissed by a court if you cannot prove your case. So, it's important to get someone who knows what they're doing in there early and to find the right kind of expert depending on what kind of slip and fall is involved. We've actually written articles on slip and fall cases in the past, and one of those is pictured behind me. If you or a loved one is ever injured in a slip and fall case, don't hesitate to give us a call.
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- Nursing Home Neglect
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- Nursing Home Neglect Michael L. Goldberg: When we talk about nursing home neglect cases, we're really talking about two different types of facilities. First you have the nursing home. In the nursing home, they provide skilled nursing care, medications, they can also provide wound treatment, and other types of medical treatment to the residents. On the other hand, the second type of facility is an assisted living facility where they don't provide that level of care, but instead try to provide some assistance to elderly people or people who may need a little bit of help. When you look at cases against nursing homes, you need expert testimony in the terms of a nursing home expert or a physician to testify about the deviation from the standard of care that occurred at the facility. Often these types of cases involve ulcers or improper wound treatment, giving the wrong type of medications, and also failing to get the type of medical treatment or to provide it correctly to the residents. And again, those types of cases, you're going to have to have expert testimony on. The other types of facility, the assisted living facility, the cases are different. They usually do not need expert testimony. They involve things like monitoring patients, or slip and fall cases where something was left out and an elderly patient falls. And those types of cases with elderly people, you can often have hip fractures or very serious injuries that result from what may have been a minor incident. We've handled a number of different kinds of cases involving with nursing, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. One that comes to mind is a case that we handled where a person who had Alzheimer's escaped from a facility through a window. The window alarm went off but the care taker failed to go check it and unfortunately it ended with a tragic result with the person's body not being found until several months later. Both of these types of cases, nursing home cases and assisted living cases, require a level of expertise of familiarity, both with the medicine and the law that's involved, and we bring both of those to the table.