Personal Injury Blog

  After lawmakers called for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban the use of Essure, the FDA has stated that it will require a new “black box warning” label for the medical device. Essure is a permanent contraceptive device that is implanted in a woman’s fallopian tubes. When used as directed, scar[…]

Photo courtesy of Peter M. Patton, Esq. Galfand Berger staff and attorneys joined thousands of other Philadelphia sports fans as we celebrated the Villanova Wildcats’ NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Many of us took a break from our busy schedules, stepped outside our office and cheered on these young athletes who brought home another championship trophy[…]

Distracted driving is an epidemic. Hundreds of people are killed every year because drivers are trying to text, browse the web, talk on the phone or check their e-mail instead of focusing on the road. Automakers are enabling this kind of “multitasking” by installing technology in cars that allows us to make phone calls, dictate[…]

The Zika virus is becoming a health crisis in Latin America, as emerging evidence suggests a link between the virus and certain abnormalities in fetal brains. The virus, which is transmitted through contact with mosquitoes, has recently been spreading throughout Latin America, coinciding with a rash of birth defects in Brazil. Microcephaly is a condition[…]

 How an App Could Save Your Life   Imagine this: there is a patient in a hospital and they are in critical condition and can’t talk. Important, life-changing decisions need to be made about how to proceed and these decisions have to be made quickly. But here is the problem: no one can identify this[…]