Recent Legislation Will Help Ensure Better Quality Care for Patients and Law Offices of Osofsky and Osofsky Gives Tips on How to Evaluate a Nursing Home There are new changes in state law regarding California’s skilled nursing homes. Nursing homes will now face fines if they do not maintain state-mandated staffing requirements under the reauthorization of AB 1629 signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Oct. 19. The state will now have new tools to enforce […]

Snatching victory from the jaws of the defense is a feather in a personal injury lawyer’s cap. This case outlines how. “It’s always nice to be able to beat a big insurance company in court,” said Daren Monroe, who writes for Litigation Funding Corporation, Southfield, Michigan. “This is a stellar case, where two personal injury lawyers took an aggressive approach to a tough case and won the day.” The verdict in this particular trial was […]

While unusual, it can happen – instances where medical malpractice cases are ultimately tried twice. “This case that we read about recently involved a young girl who suffered severe birth injuries – brain injuries. It was interesting in that it proves that these kinds of cases are always radically different, just sometimes similar, and that to get justice, a plaintiff needs the assistance of a seasoned personal injury lawyer,” said Stephen M. Ozcomert, who handles […]

Big rigs are a commanding presence on the highways. Unfortunately, they are often involved in fatal accidents. Big rig collisions happen every day; a statistic many Americans would rather not entertain as a part of their daily news. Unfortunately, many families have either experienced a collision with a tractor trailer first hand or know of someone who was badly injured in one or who died. The statistics for 18-wheeler crashes are depressing, but still, they […]

Sometimes lawyers must take the role of a victim in the true victim’s stead when that person has been severely injured or rendered incapable of movement, a typical scenario in motorcycle injury cases. “Unfortunately, motorcycle accidents have increased over the last five years, largely due to the fact that many people have given up their expensive cars to save money,” said Scott Atkinson, a New Mexico personal injury lawyer and wrongful death lawyer with the […]

A suit filed on behalf of William Dotson by Stratton Faxon on July 9 declares that the Reverend Stephen Bzdyra sexually molested an altar boy in the 1980s. The sexual abuse victim is now entitled to $10M attachment against the priest’s assets. William Dotson of Hartford, a 34-year-old Connecticut man, filed suit on July 9, against Reverend Stephen Bzydra for sexually molesting him while he was an altar boy at St. Francis Church in New […]

Labor certification allows beneficiaries to enter the U.S. through employment. Before employers hire aliens, they have to prove to the Department of Labor that there are no qualified citizens or Green Card holders to fill the position, and must thoroughly test the labor market to find qualified applicants. This is done by posting and advertising the position and interviewing candidates. “Applying for Permanent Residency can be a daunting lengthy process; therefore, it is helpful to […]

Canines bite a few million people every year in the United States. It’s obvious what kind of physical repercussion an attack can have on a victim, but most people have no idea how dog bite laws can affect them, too, such as the “first bite” or “one bite” rules. Most states follow the “one bite rule,” which says that owners are not liable for a dog’s first attack provided the owner was not negligent in […]

There’s a great debate in the nation about how to get unemployed Americans working in agriculture. It is a debate made all the more controversial by the fact that many unemployed Americans don’t want to work in jobs they consider demeaning. Republicans on a committee dealing with this issue are arguing that illegal immigrants take jobs away from the unemployed. Democrats argue that if unemployed Americans wanted those agricultural jobs, they’d already be working in […]

Trademark infringement goes international these days when companies based in the U.S. sue companies based in Europe. In an interesting international development, U.S.-based Smart Blocks Inc., a maker of construction toys, sued the Danish company Lego A/S, noted as one of Europe’s largest toymakers. Smart Blocks petitioned the federal court for a determination that they were not infringing on Lego trademarks. Evidently, Smart Blocks, whose headquarters are in San Marcos, Calif., are noted for their […]