Paralysis From Car Accident

Car accidents often times serious head and back injury. Such injuries have led to paralysis taking both a physical and monetary toll on the accident victim and family members.

Victims of serious car accidents should  consult an experienced injury attorney for a case review.

A car accident lawyer will determine how much compensation under the law ids allowable for damages. Debilitating paralysis can alter a persons life. The pain and suffering, recovery time will all be taken into account to find out how much an injury case is worth.

Types of Paralysis:

The most serious type of paralysis is spinal cord injury. Paralysis is a loss of control of a muscle, the inability to move. Paralysis from an accident can either be temporary or permanent.

Temporary paralysis is swelling or pressure on the nervous system resulting from some sort of spinal cord injury.

An accident victim with paralysis is unable  to move any part of their body. Temporary paralysis is just that temporary, the nervous system functionality eventually returns.

Permanent paralysis however is not curable. Treating spinal cord injury, victims of permanent paralysis face lifelong disability.

Reflection on the holidays

STOP and THINK !

It’s the holidays New York. I advise people for a living as a car accident lawyer in New York, 24 hours a day or night.

Here’s a little friendly advice — lets drive safe. there holiday parties, and probably plenty of drinking. Think before getting behind the wheel of a vehicle.

Just the other day in Halfmoon, NY two students were killed after being rear ended by a drunk driver.

Its such a tragic loss — This type of tragedy, there’s nothing that can be said to alleviate or ease the pain of surviving family members and friend.

Be careful! DON’T DINK and DRIVE.

Again in this situation, as we’ve seen too often there are victims, and the driver that caused the accident walks away unharmed.

Read about the rear end fatal accident

New York Car Accident Stats

DMV NY 2011 Crash Stats

Vehicles	543,080
Drivers Involved	505,648
Vehicle Occupants	708,256
Note: 2011 statewide VMT rates are comparable to 2010 VMT rates, but
Special Crash Series
Pedestrian/Motor Vehicle Crashes		15,928
Bicycle/Motor Vehicle Crashes			6,076
Motorcycle Crashes			5,336
Fatalities
Persons Killed (1)			1,153
Drivers Killed			597
Passengers Killed			203
Pedestrians Killed			296
Bicyclists Killed			57
Other			0
Non-Fatal Injuries
Persons Injured (1)			177,445
Drivers Injured			106,335
Passengers Injured			48,677
Pedestrians Injured			15,689
Bicyclists Injured			5,883
Other			861
(1) Includes pedestrians, bicyclists and all other non-vehicle involved persons
If you are looking advice from a New York Car accident lawyer call: 800-535-5029

Slip and Fall Stats

Slip and fall accident cases.  Find out what your case is worth!

Injury Statistics for Slip and Fall Accidents

• The average cost of a slip, trip, and fall injuries 22, 800.
• Over one million Americans suffer a slip, trip, or fall injury every year.
• 17,000 plus  people die every year from a slip and fall accident.
• There are a reported nearly 1,800 fatalities from falls and fall-related injuries in nursing homes.
• About 57% of fall injury episodes occurred due to slipping, tripping, or stumbling. Most of these falls occurred at home — 50% occurred inside the home, and 24% occurred around or close to the outside of the home.
• Over half of the fall injuries occurred on the floor or level ground.
• 16% of slip and falls occur on stairs or an escalator.
• 8% of falls result form curbs and furniture, 29%.
• 20% happens while swimming, dancing , bowling, sports, etc…

Ajlouny Injury Law has helped thousands of accident victims who were injured in a slip and fall, or trip accident. – Slip and falls can happen at anytime , at a anywhere you home, on the street, in a public place like a restaurant or the mall. Slip and falls accidents can be devastating.

Slip and fall accidents are often times due to the negligence of another persona. Anyone that is hurt from a slip and fall, may have a case.

The best way to find out — is to get  free legal advice. A personal injury lawyer that specializes in slip and fall cases whether or not  you have a case and answer any questions.  Fond out what you case is worth.

Common Limo Accidents

NEW YORK – A limo driver recently involved in a deadly accident in Brooklyn has been arrested and charged in the death of a passenger. The 50 year old limo driver was behind the limo with a 53-year-old man when he realized the car was in gear. He jumped back in to stop the car from rolling, but accidentally hit the gas instead of the brakes.

Accoring to New York Limo Accident lawyer, Ajlouny Injury Law, The 3 most common limo accidents include: Rear-Enders, Side Swipers and Parked Cars –

13% of limo accident claims reported involve parked driver-less vehicles.

The 3 Most Common Limo Accidents – An infographic by the team at The 3 Most Common Limo Accidents

Alert! Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

19 people have died and 247 have fallen ill.

MENINGITIS ALERT!

[10-15-2012] 

As a result of FDA, CDC, and state health departments’  investigation of contamination at the New England Compounding Center’s (NECC) Framingham, Massachusetts facility, on October 4, the FDA has advised providers to not use any NECC products.

On October 6, NECC announced a recall of all its products.

Medical professionals that have purchased products distributed by NECC, have been advised to completely STOP using such products.

Anyone that has received an epidural injection for back pain recently and suddenly feels ill, seek medical attention immediately!

 

There has been a nationwide outbreak of deadly meningitis.

247 people have fallen ills and 19 have died nationwide from spinal meningitis stemming from a contaminated steroid solution used in epidural steroid injections.

13,000 of these tainted steroids have been distributed in 23 states.

The contaminated steroid solution was sold by New England Compounding Center from Framingham, Massachusetts.

The steroid injections are believed to have been tainted with a fungus, most with a form of black mold.

The steroid solution has now been recalled and the factory’s operations have been shut down.

If or someone you love have had any steroid injections over the past few months and are experiencing any of the following symptoms, seek  immediate medical attention by reporting to the nearest emergency:

• Fever
• Sudden, Severe Headache
• Stiff Neck
• Rash
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Confusion
• Dizziness
• Sensitivity to light

FDA: “The signs and symptoms of meningitis include fever, headache, stiff neck, nausea and vomiting, photophobia (sensitivity to light) and altered mental status. Symptoms for other possible infections may include fever; swelling, increasing pain, redness, warmth at injection site; visual changes, pain, redness or discharge from the eye; chest pain, or drainage from the surgical site (infection within the chest).”

Three lots of contaminated steroids manufactured by the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass. were sold to three facilities in New York – Rochester, Mount Vernon and Mineola, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

New England Compounding Center Nationwide Recall of All Products

For further information and legal advice regarding Fungal Meningitis, call New York Drug Lawyers at Ajlouny Injury Law at 800-535-5029.

Family of Grandma Killed by BMW Charged $6K to Fix Car That Killed Her

Wow can this story be any crazier?  Your grandmother is killed by the driver of a BMW and then the drivers insurance company tries to collect on the damages done to the vehicle.  Can we just say “that’s just nuts”.  The poor women is walking home from the supermarket when she is hit by a 57 year old therapist.  She later dies at a nearby hospital in Long Island.

Its bad enough the surviving family is devastated and grieving the loss of grandma, but to then receive a letter from the drivers insurance demanding $6,245.09, for damages is mind blowing!

 

The letter obtained by The New York Post reads.

Whats amazing is as soon as this became public knowledge the insurer starts to back peddle.

On Friday, a Post reporter asked PURE’s president about the letter. Hours later, the insurer dropped its collection effort, issuing a statement that said in part:

“Our sympathies go out to the family and loved ones of Ms. Cedeno . . . s a company policy, as well as due to the extremely sensitive nature of this tragedy, we are reluctant to go into great detail about the circumstances of an open claim. We can confirm it would not be our policy to pursue recovery of damages in a case like this.“We acknowledge that a letter was written and sent by an otherwise excellent claims professional. . . that created the impression that reimbursement would be pursued even if there was no applicable insurance. This runs counter to our position, and [the claims professional] should not have written the letter.’’

One opinion to this is that “Contrary to popular belief, it is NOT always the driver’s fault in a car/pedestrian accident. If the woman was crossing illegally, then it was not the driver’s fault. Nor the insurance company”.

I work for a  New York car accident lawyer and I am native in New York. I would like to apply the “pedestrian right of way” rule.  As drivers could this accident of been avoided by driving a safe speed.  Okay lets just say grandma wasn’t in a crosswalk, does that make it okay for any driver not to be aware of their surroundings?

As one poster commented, “The pedestrian is always right” well it depends who gets hit by a car… and I agree.