Personal Injury Blog

The Philadelphia personal injury lawyers at Galfand Berger are proud to announce that five of our attorneys have been honored by Super Lawyers and Rising Stars for 2016. Richard M. Jurewicz, Senior Partner, has been selected to Super Lawyers 2016 as a top rated products liability attorney in Pennsylvania for the 13th consecutive year.  Mr.[…]

Urban areas like Philadelphia are notorious for having a high rate of pedestrian and bicyclists accidents. Being struck by a car while on foot or a bike can lead to serious injuries or even death. Fortunately, the City of Philadelphia has secured $2.68 million in federal funding to improve public transportation as well as pedestrian[…]

The number of people who have suffered serious injuries and even lost their lives from malfunctioning or faulty automated gates is simply too high to have no changes implemented. An automatic gate or automatic gate system is a mechanical device that opens or closes a gate, such as the one at the end of a driveway[…]

Memorial Day, the unofficial kick-off to summer, is finally around the corner. A “perfect storm” of factors will lead to an unprecedented number of drivers taking to the road this year: cheaper gas prices, an improvement in the employment rate, and cabin fever after being cooped up all winter long. AAA estimates that over 31[…]

Every year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) releases data and information that pertains to causes of death in the medical field. A recent study published by the BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal, shows the serious limitations and consequences behind how medical deaths are classified and how, although medical errors[…]