Entries by NY Personal Injury Attorneys

Medical errors keep killing patients – but there are laws, incentives and mindset changes that could reduce the death toll

By Michael J. Saks | The Conversation Dr. Christopher Duntsch was a spine surgeon so reckless, incompetent or impaired that he’s now in a Texas prison. Better known as “Dr. Death,” Duntsch severed nerves, vocal cords and arteries that should not have been touched. He left patient after patient maimed, paralyzed or dead. Moreover, his story exposes the […]

Civil and Human Rights Must Be Advanced in 2023 and Beyond

Editorial credit: Consolidated News Photos / Shutterstock.com Over the past two years, the Biden-Harris administration has made significant progress following four years of an administration committed to turning back the clock on civil and human rights. And during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden underscored his support for some of our coalition’s outstanding […]

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Why You Should Care

By Nia Warren In Mississippi, owners and managers of three apartment complexes refused to show two of its complexes to prospective Black renters, reserving them for White renters only. In Georgia, owners of a residential rental property steered older Black applicants to only apply to less desirable apartment complexes rather than newer, predominantly white ones. In New Jersey, […]

What Your Fleet Drivers Need to Know About Accidents

Private vehicles are back on the roads in record-breaking numbers. Your fleet drivers enjoyed a few years of lighter traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic, so they might find the increased traffic extra frustrating now. Stressed driving is distracted driving. You already know any form of distracted driving leads to more accidents.  Because fleet drivers have more […]

Lessons Learned from Our Classroom Censorship Win Against Florida’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act

By Leah Watson | November 29, 2022 Here’s what the judge’s order could mean for challenges to censorship efforts nationwide. On March 16, 2023, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals left in place the district court’s preliminary injunction, reaffirming the serious injury posed to educators and students by the Stop W.O.K.E. Act. The ruling will […]

The US Government Gave Them Protection. Now It May Take It Away.

By Katie Hoeppner Since the early 1990s, our nation has welcomed and assisted people whose countries have been devastated by war and natural disaster through the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. Today, many TPS holders have established roots in the U.S., raising families and contributing to their communities. In recent years, the Trump administration tried […]

The Civil Rights Division Is Enforcing Civil Rights Again — But the Work Isn’t Over

In May 1957, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and delivered his “Give Us the Ballot” address — positioning voting rights at the center of the larger struggle for civil rights. In the months that followed, Congress responded. Sixty-five years ago this month, President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act […]