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5 Tips to Improve Value of Personal Injury Cases
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Jonathan Rosenfeld: As a personal injury lawyer, there's a lot of people who come up to me and they ask,
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"Well, hey, what can I do to improve my case?" Or, "What should I not do to make my case a little bit better?"
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And these are five things that I've come to appreciate
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over the course of representing hundreds and hundreds of personal injury clients.
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The number one thing I will tell you about errors that people make with respect to personal injury cases
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is talking with a representative from the insurance company.
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I think it's important that people recognize from the get-go that their interests
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and the insurance company's interests are very conflicting.
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The second problem that we're seeing in personal injury cases is when people delay getting medical attention.
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Time and time again I see people who are legitimately injured who are incredibly hesitant to go to the doctor or go to the hospital
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for an injury they may have sustained in an accident.
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An insurance company, when they're evaluating a case, when they're sitting down and they're saying,
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"Hey, what is this case worth?" they will look at the type of medical attention that a person has
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and they'll look at when that person received that attention.
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And these are factors which play into the eventual outcome in terms of a settlement,
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or, if the case proceeds to trial, this are issues which will typically come up at trial.
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And time and time again, it's a fairly effective argument.
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"If you were so badly injured, why didn't you go to the hospital? Why didn't you go to the doctor?"
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"Why did you stop going to physical therapy?"
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The third issue that I want to talk about is when people have unrealistic expectations of what their case is worth,
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or they may have unrealistic expectations of what the insurance company's responsibilities actually are.
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You know, people really need to understand that not every case can be settled.
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There are some cases, and, in fact, most of the serious injury cases, no matter how serious the injury is,
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those cases typically need to be litigated.
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And to hope and to expect that a settlement is going to come their way without putting the insurance company's feet to the fire
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is not really being; it's not really a realistic expectation.
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And I think it's always natural that we look towards our friends and our family for advice on a lot of issues.
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Unfortunately, when it comes to personal injury cases and medical malpractice cases, it's pretty rare,
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unless your friend or your family is a personal injury lawyer, that they're really gonna have anything insightful to tell you
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about your particular case.
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We have many, many people who suggest to us: "My cousin or my neighbor; he said I should do this." Or, "She said I should do that."
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And I say, "That's great, but at the end of the day, they don't really know specifically about your particular circumstance."
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The thing that people need to remember is that personal injury lawyers and lawyers in general; they're people.
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And as a personal injury lawyer, my business is to help people.
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And my business is to give people feedback about a particular situation, be it good, bad, or otherwise.
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And when someone contacts me initially after an accident, I can, if there is a viable case,
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I can help them either get whatever medical attention they may need, I can help them from an investigate perspective,
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I can do my own research, and I can do my own fact-gathering,
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whereas if I'm contacted either at the last minute or after quite a bit of time has gone by,
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those opportunities really may have come and gone.
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If you have any questions about anything we've talked about, give us a call or contact us via the Web site.
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We're here to help.
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Was Your Child's Birth Injury Preventable?
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Jonathan Rosenfeld: Every family, when they go to the hospital for the delivery of a child,
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there's always a tremendous amount of excitement and anticipation that goes along with it.
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And when they go to the hospital, they're basically turning over their care to that facility.
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When information is delayed, when information is not properly responded to, there's a real risk of injury to the child.
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Any time that there's not an adequate oxygen supply there's an opportunity for brain damage.
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While it may be an oversight, it may be an error on the part of the medical technician,
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these children are gonna need a tremendous amount of care down the road.
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One of the things about birth injury cases is you have to remember that it's not just the child who's involved.
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It's not just the child who is suffering.
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If we bring a lawsuit, the lawsuit is gonna be brought on behalf of that child, but ultimately that injury
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and that situation really does impact the parents, it impacts their siblings, it impacts the entire family unit.
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My goal is to alleviate some of those stresses so that family can get back to what they can and what they should be doing.
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Everything that we do is done with the ultimate goal of providing for that child through the duration of their life.
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for their entire life
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Jonathan Rosenfeld: If we can provide those services and we can take some of that strain away from the family,
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I think we're doing a really good job.
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interchangeably called bed sores pressure ulcers for cuba's ulcers
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pressure sort is a wound that forms when pressure in force on really on specific
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parts of the block
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over time the body's natural circulation he shot off
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and a tissues in the area begins to dominate forming and open www
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when advance pressure sores develop patients are at risk for complications
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such as infection
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gangrene osteomyelitis sepsis or even death
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according to a recent study of nursing home patients with stage four pressure
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since
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nearly seventy percent died due to complications from the world's
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while any patient with limited mobility may be at risk
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elderly patients in nursing homes and hospitals remain most at risk
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factors which may exacerbate the development of pressure soaks including
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day mobility
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malnutrition
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and dehydration
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it's far keys here for a medical facilities implement preventative
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measures to prevent pressure sores than it is to heal an open wound
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common preventative measures including regularly repositioning patience
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insuring adequate nutrition and hydration encouraging activity
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in keeping patients clean and dry
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many pressure sores are the result of improper medical care and neglect
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or when a patient suffers and injury to the negligent care they may have a right
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to recover monetary damages from the facility
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rosenfeld injuring says experience litigating pressure sore cases in
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recovering the maximum compensation
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Nursing Home Abuse: Not Part of the Aging Process
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Jonathan Rosenfeld: The fact is is that we all age, but there are certain things which are not part of the normal aging process.
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We are seeing situations where patients may have been dropped or patients may have suffered repeated falls,
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where patients may have been given the wrong medication.
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Part of the aging process does not entail development of pressure sores.
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These are factors and complications which arise primarily due to inferior care at the facility,
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and families need to be mindful of these, and they need to be mindful of the fact that, no matter what the facility may tell them,
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these are typical and telltale signs of neglect.
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Every person who is admitted to a nursing home,
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the nursing homes are required to create a customized plan of care for that individual.
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And that takes into account what their needs are from a medical and emotional basis.
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And that facility, not only do they need to create that plan, but they need to implement that plan of care.
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And when I look at a nursing home case, I look at; first of all, a lot of times what I'll do is I'll look at what is the injury?
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And then I'll go back and I'll see what was done leading up to that injury, or what wasn't done leading up to that injury
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which should have been done, according to that plan of care.
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Ultimately, it's really up to families to trust their own intuition as to whether or not their loved one has been mistreated.
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You're really making these companies start to re-evaluate the type of care that they provide.
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By showing these companies that you're not going to take inferior care in stride, it really causes them
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to change the way that they operate and change the way that they do business.
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Everything I do is always done on a contingency fee basis, so if a client or family
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wants me to take a look at a particular situation, I'm always more than happy to do so.
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Sometimes it's a case; sometimes it's not.
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But what we need to do, as a society, is we really need to take a stand when it comes to inferior nursing home care.
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Truck Accident Cases Require a Rapid Response
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Jonathan Rosenfeld: When you're dealing with a trucking outfit; a commercial operator,
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one of the things that they're focused on doing is they're focused on getting their product to market
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as soon as possible and as inexpensively as possible,
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and the way that they do that is by cutting corners.
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They look at all of the federal regulations, they look at all the state regulations, they look at all the local regulations.
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And a lot of times what they'll do is they'll ignore them.
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When you have an operator who may be fatigued, who may be driving too fast,
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that opportunity for a serious accident is really; it's there.
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Trucking companies know that accidents are a big business.
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They know that their exposure in these crashes is fairly substantial.
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And they know that an injured person can really; can hit their bottom line tremendously.
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So, what trucking companies will do is they will have a team of investigators, surveyors, who may go out to a scene of an accident
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very early on to collect information that's favorable to that particular company.
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And the reason that they do that is because they can minimize their exposure down the road.
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In other words, when a trucking company goes out to the scene of an accident,
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they're not doing it necessarily to get an objective collection of information.
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They're doing it for the company's best interests.
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And people who are involved in trucking accident cases, unfortunately,
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there is some urgency involved in these cases,
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because individuals and families need to appreciate that they're dealing with a very sophisticated corporate player.
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And it may not be intuitive for a family to contact an attorney soon after an accident,
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but frequently the early investigations in these cases can have a tremendous impact
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and really successfully add value to the case down the road, and that's what we really want to do.
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Why I Became a Personal Injury Lawyer
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Jonathan Rosenfeld: During my freshman year in college,
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I had an opportunity to volunteer at a legal clinic outside of Philadelphia.
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And the clinic; it was for underprivileged people in the urban area,
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and one of the things that they let me do was they let me talk to these people
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and they let me sit down with these people from the first day.
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And I didn't have any experience with law. I didn't have any experience with their particular situation.
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That opportunity, for me, was really the; what made me decide that I wanted to be a lawyer.
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I don't really spend a whole lot of time in my office.
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I spend a lot of time; I spend time meeting with clients, I spend time going to court,
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I spend time going out to the scene of an accident.
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And these are all things which I do with the ultimate goal of really helping people and helping the client
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and helping them position that case for the best possible outcome down the road.
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Every day I think about my wife. I think about my kids. I think about my grandparents.
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And I think about if I were in that client's position, is this a type of person I would want representing me and my family?
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And I hope that the answer to that is an overwhelming "yes."
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