Lehigh Valley Personal Injury Law Blog

Pennsylvania officials were called to respond to a two-vehicle collision on April 18. The truck accident happened on Route 118 near Lairdsville. The 7:15 a.m. collision resulted in a closure of the road for nearly three hours.

The truck accident occurred as a driver of a Pontiac crashed into a heavy-duty dump truck not far from Lairdsville. The resulting impact caused the engine of the Pontiac to catch fire. Thankfully, a passerby was able to use a portable fire extinguisher to squelch the fire before damages and injuries worsened.

Medical malpractice claims can be costly for both patients and physicians in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, so says a letter published by a leading medical journal. The letter summarized the costs to medical professionals by specialty for defending medical malpractice claims. The highest costs were associated with claims against doctors treating cancer and cardiology patients.

Expressing concerns that the heightened costs of defending medical malpractice claims were being passed on to patients in the form of higher medical fees, officials have proposed varying solutions to the problem. One state university hospital system initiated a program where a patient who has been injured is sought out soon after a potential malpractice incident in an attempt to both acknowledge a mistake and to seek to settle with the wronged party. It is thought that the proactive approach both reduces costs and averts lengthy medical malpractice litigation.

An accident along Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania left one man dead, although tragically, he may still have been alive today if the driver of the second vehicle had cut him free after the man's truck overturned. The fatal accident happened a little past 2 a.m. on March 20. Police have subsequently charged the second driver with driving under the influence, amongst other crimes.

The 49-year-old victim was on his way home after visiting with his sister when the driver of an SUV crashed into him. The resulting impact caused his pickup truck to overturn, wedging him inside the car with his chin pinned against his chest. That shut off his trachea, and he ultimately died from positional asphyxiation

Speed is often found to be the underlying cause of accidents on Pennsylvania roadways. Though there are many other reasons for an accident to occur, no matter what the reason, it is always a tragedy when an innocent person dies as a result of a collision. A horrific accident occurred in the Lehigh Valley on March 5 that took the life of an infant, and may be considered a wrongful death.

The fatal car crash happened in West Hazelton happened that Monday afternoon when a Chevrolet Impala sped around a turn, crashing into a construction sign and running into a parked Chevy Blazer. Thereafter, the Impala driver rear-ended a Toyota sedan, forcing the sedan to collide with a Lexus. The Toyota, carrying the infant along with his mother and grandmother, may have struck a parking meter as well.