More than half of the construction jobs in the United States require the use of scaffolding. Scaffolding offers a stable platform to build, paint, remodel, and repair buildings and structures of all types. Yet scaffolding also causes thousands of serious and fatal work accidents and injuries every year. Annually, scaffolding causes around 4,500 injuries across[…]

During its prime, Skyline Healthcare managed or owned more than 100 nursing facilities in 11 states. But when the company started to fail two years ago, more than one dozen of its facilities were shut down and nearly 1,000 residents were forced to relocate – and many were given barely any warning. This is not[…]

Despite the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ordering of transvaginal mesh products off the market, the move came far too late for many women already injured – some irreversibly so – from these unsafe medical devices. What is pelvic organ prolapse and how does it happen? Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a disorder in which[…]

According to a recent study conducted by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), one-third of medical malpractice cases resulting in permanent disability or death are caused by incorrect or delayed medical diagnoses. Medical errors are one of the leading causes of death in the United States, with approximately 250,000 people dying because of[…]

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for American teenagers, with six adolescents between 16-and-19-years-old dying because of crash-related injuries each day. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), teen drivers are almost three-times as likely to be involved in a fatal crash as drivers who are 20-years-old or older.[…]