By Joe Messa
It’s July and the Philadelphia personal injury attorneys at Messa & Associates, along with The American Academy of Ophthalmology, want you to know that it’s UV Safety Month! Why is UV Safety SO Important? Ultra-violet rays, or UV rays, are the leading cause of skin cancer, the most common type of cancer in the United […]
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Philadelphia medical malpractice lawyers are representing the family of man whose spinal cord injury was undiagnosed. The man was admitted to Abington Memorial Hospital where he underwent a CT of the cervical spine. A radiologist at Abington reviewed the images and failed to recognize an abnormality shown on the cervical CT image. The man was […]
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Philadelphia medical malpractice attorneys reveal that medical malpractice payments in the United States most commonly result from missed or incorrect diagnoses, according to a study that examined more than 350,000 claims made from 1986 to 2010. Researchers say that the claims associated with death and disabilities were more likely to have occurred from diagnosis-related errors. […]
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