Medical Malpractice vs. Personal Injury: What is the Difference?
When it comes to legal claims, two types that often overlap are medical malpractice and personal injury. Both involve harm caused by someone else’s negligence, but they are distinct in several important ways. If you have been injured and are considering legal action, it is important to understand the difference between the two in order to pursue the right kind of case.
What is Personal Injury?
Personal...Types of Legal Claims and their Differences
Medical Malpractice vs. Personal Injury: What is the Difference?
When it comes to legal claims, two types that often overlap are medical malpractice and personal injury. Both involve harm caused by someone else’s negligence, but they are distinct in several important ways. If you have been injured and are considering legal action, it is important to understand the difference between the two in order to pursue the right kind of case.
What is Personal Injury?
Personal...
If you were seriously injured due to the negligence of a physician or health care provider, it is important to know you have options.
All doctors and medical providers must follow a “standard of care,” meaning that they have the responsibility to treat their patients within an accepted and predictable treatment plan and to inform them of alternative treatments and possible risks arising from treatment.
One important thing to remember about...
Tick Season: What You Need to Know.
Tick season is here, and the dangers of catching Lyme Disease is real. Read on for more information to keep you and your family safe this summer.
Tick bites can occur at any time; however, they are most active during warmer months (April-September.) Ticks can attach to any part of the body but are mostly found in hard-to-see areas such as the groin, armpits and scalp.
All tick bites are not the same. Lyme Disease is...
FDA Urges Recall for Five Companies’ Diabetes Drug, Metformin.
The FDA has asked five pharmaceutical companies to recall their diabetes drug, metformin.
The FDA has detected higher than acceptable levels of a cancer-causing chemical in a sampling of the medication.
Metformin is used to control high blood sugar in type-2 diabetes. The FDA said they found the chemical in certain extended-release versions of the drug, not the immediate-release versions.
The...
Lupus Awareness Month 2020.
During May, the Lupus Foundation of America will be educating the public and raising awareness about the disease known as lupus.
Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system fails to serve its normal protective functions and instead forms antibodies that attack healthy tissues and organs. It is sometimes compared to your body being allergic to itself. For most people, lupus is a mild disease affecting...