After a two year hiatus for me, the Pan Mass Challenge Fundraiser for Cancer Research is Back ON and I need your help. I have bicycled this event for 9 years. We ride 200 miles over two days in early August in Massachusetts. The first day is long at 108 miles from Sturbridge to the beginning of Cape Cod. The …
Carbon monoxide poisoning and CO lawsuits
Carbon monoxide poisoning recently caused the sad and likely avoidable deaths of a family, which was visiting a resort in the Bahamas. CO reduces your red blood cells’ ability to bind with oxygen, so you will be breathing fine, but you will start to asphyxiate rapidly if you are in a room filled with CO. A standard blood test will …
Uvalde, Guns, and Hubris
As a parent, human, and American, the disaster that was the school shooting at Uvalde cannot be more raw and upsetting. This disaster was the result of the confluence of two problems. One is our gun crazy country and the other is the hubris of law enforcement. Hubris means arrogance or an exaggerated self-confidence or belief in your own rightness …
We all make mistakes: Medical Malpractice
I have been a lawyer for 25 years. I have not been sued for malpractice, yet. Nevertheless, if you are a responsible professional, you will have experienced periods of questioning yourself, others in your profession, or how better you could have handled a case, patient, customer, client etc. We are more highly educated and trained and get paid more …
Canada anyone? Changes to Roe v. Wade per Justice Alito.
The U.S. Supreme Court often tinkers away on matters that do not affect us on a daily basis. Occasionally, they wade into the culture wars with predictably disastrous effects. The rightward tilt of the Court has always been there in my view. The current Court will never stand up for the individual. Usually, it takes the side of big …
A Word from the Editor: Welcome to Summer
The last months have been downright gnarly. Bad news abounds: shootings, war, soaring gas prices, SCOTUS–we even had Covid. So as we slide into Summer and a new Volume of The Neusletter, we hope that things turn around, and you get naught but tasty waves and a cool buzz, and that everything is fine. All The Best! THE NEUSLETTER
HOW WILL YOU KNOW A PERSONAL INJURY CASE WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT IT?
Inevitably, a weird fact pattern means that you probably have a good personal injury case. I don’t know why, but it’s true. So, here are a series of weird ones from recent cases. A Tree Falls In Frankford: Frankford, as you may know, is a tough part of Philly with homes and yards chock a block on top …
SuperLawyers 2022 Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney
I am thrilled and honored to be selected as top Pennsylvania Personal Injury attorney by 2022 Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers chooses only the top 5% of attorneys in any region. I am proud to be included along with many of my talented colleagues. Top Rated King of Prussia, PA Personal Injury Attorney | Andrew Neuwirth | Super Lawyers Andrew T. …
Suit: Woman slips after taking off shoes at Philadelphia International TSA checkpoint
Suit: Woman slips after taking off shoes at Philadelphia International TSA checkpoint PHILADEPHIA – A woman alleges she slipped after removing her shoes at a security checkpoint at Philadelphia International. Jacqueline Allen-Fillmore filed a complaint April 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Philadelphia International Airport and the City …
DOES DR. STRANGE HAVE A WORKMEN’S COMP CASE?
TEXTING AND DRIVING CAN CRUSH YOUR HANDS BUT SAVE THE PLANET? So, the opening five minutes of the original Dr. Strange movie shows our hero, Benedict Cumberbatch as the future Dr. Strange, distractedly driving his Lamborghini on a country road while reading brain CT scans on his phone on his car console. He then proceeds to crash because he is …