InjuryBoard Northern Virginia Archives

• The only good kind of slip and fall case.

  Ben Glass | August 30, 2006 6:46 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  We often get calls about people who have slipped and fallen in stores. Generally the cases are of two types. The more common case occurs when some food or drink has been left on the floor and the customer slips, falls and hurts himself. These cases are actually pretty difficult because we must prove first that the store knew or had enough time to have known, that there was a foreign object on...

• Needle Tip Left in Body, Patient Loses

  Ben Glass | August 28, 2006 6:44 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A patient sued his orthopedic surgeon after the tip of a needle broke off during surgery and remained in the patient's body. The patient claimed that he did not need a medical expert to certify the merits of his case or to testify at trial because this was a "foreign object" case. An Alexandria federal judge helped dismiss the case saying:In sharp contrast to the typical res ipsa loquitur case...

• State Loses Injured Infant Fund Appeal

  Ben Glass | August 23, 2006 2:01 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Congratulations to Fairfax attorney Anne Jones, for her terrific victory in the Virginia Court of Appeals. As many readers know, Virginia has some of the worst laws anywhere for infants injured at birth. Not only can many of these children, and their families, not file a lawsuit, but the damages are limited.What was advertised as a non-adversarial procedure (and sold to doctors as such) has...

• Interpreters in the Emergency Room?

  Ben Glass | August 22, 2006 1:00 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  There is a new article out from the New England Journal of Medicine that asks the question of whether the health care industry should be required to provide (and, presumably, pay for) interpreters in order to reduce communication errors between doctors and non-English speaking patients. The implications for medical malpractice claims are enormous.The article describes several very unfortunate...

• No More "Runners" In Washington, D.C.

  Ben Glass | August 03, 2006 9:01 AM | 5 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  No, no, I'm not talking about the heat wave here and how no one is out jogging. I'm talking about the refreshing law change that will permit unscrupulous lawyers and chiropractors from obtaining accident reports and calling and visiting car accident victims shortly after an accident to solicit cases/patients. While technically an amendment to the D.C. Theft and White Collar Crimes Act, I like to...