Long-term residents of nursing homes often fall prey to various complications related to a sedentary lifestyle. Their personal health status will often be the defining factor when activity and movement are considered by medical staff. Some of these living situations, however, are less than adequate. Neglect, unfortunately, is a common occurrence and can result in […]
By Marilyn Silverman Your doctor has wonderful news for you—you’re pregnant. Both you and your partner happily count the days until you will welcome a tiny baby girl or a tiny baby boy into your domestic abode. But that happy day might be darkened with sadness and tragedy if you are a minority woman due […]
Under the NYC Human Rights Commission Law, everyone in New York City is protected based on their actual or perceived race, national origin, color, religion, age, alienage or citizenship status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or housing status. Housing status is related to the kind of place you live—such as a private building, public housing, […]
By Marylin Silverman When your eyes look high up into the sky, increasingly towering buildings are reaching higher and higher. This is of course a good thing for the economy. But the detrimental impact on the very health of their builders—the members of that division of the business sector—construction—is not a good thing. These workers […]
By Marilyn Silverman If you google the words how seriously are concussions taken, you will be stunned that parents are not even alarmed if their sons and daughters are the recipients of this diagnosis by their trustworthy family physicians. As per WebMD, these mothers and fathers should, in fact, be alarmed, very alarmed indeed since […]
By Erin Telesford There are many difficulties women have to face during pregnancy, and discrimination should not be one of them. Pregnancy is one of the most difficult yet rewarding experiences a human can go through, but mothers are treated like burdens in the workplace. Imagine you’ve spent ten years working at the same company […]
By Jameliah Francis You may have slipped, fell and bumped your head. Though the injury may seem inconsequential at first, what if there are severe brain damages, such as a skull fracture, concussion, or traumatic brain injury. More so, what if you were walking on the sidewalk and the accident was no fault of yours […]
By Janet Howard As per the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 4,836 workers were killed at work in its fiscal year between October 1, 2015, and September 30, 2016. Of those fatalities, 21.4 percent of them occurred in the construction industry. That’s 937 construction industry deaths, or more than 13 every day. There were […]
The Occupational & Health Administration (OSHA) was created within the Department of Labor(DOL). OSHA is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and is responsible for worker safety and health protection. Since April 28th, 1971 when OSHA was founded, it has reduced workplace fatalities by 66%. Through the standards OSHA set, including training requirements and safety […]
If you have been injured as the result of someone else’s negligence, there is a good chance that you are entitled to compensation. Of course, it is only natural to seek as much money as possible for the hardships that you have had to endure. With this in mind, if you wish to maximize your […]
Your alarm clock echoes in the early morning hour as you begin your daily routine of flipping on the TV to listen to the traffic report. The last thing you want is to be late for work. But you might be very late for work if you’re in a car accident. Becoming a statistic should […]
In the United States, about 60 percent of civil litigation trials are related to some form of personal injury, according to the most recent statistics from the United States Department of Justice. The DOJ also estimates that only four percent of personal injury cases actually go to court, meaning that the actual number of claims […]
Even if your employer is precise in following OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) rules and regulations, certain environments are accident prone. Maybe the employer forgot to dry a wet floor or your harness was not secured properly on a scaffolding unit. Injuries are sometimes inevitable. According to the U.S Department of Labor, the most […]
Maximize Your Settlement Dealing with injuries can be emotionally, physically and financially taxing. Winning a major settlement can at least take care of the financial part of that equation, while also helping you pay for the emotional and physical treatments that may be required in your recovery. In order to maximize your settlement, you’ll need […]
Before making an appointment or stepping into your doctor’s office, do you have a general understanding of who your doctor is and his or her true intentions? As a patient, you should have a general understanding of who your doctors are. Patients expect that they are getting the best care possible from their doctors. According […]