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Being Your Own Best Advocate: A Story of Falsified Mammogram Results
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Being Your Own Best Advocate: A Story of Falsified Mammogram Results

Sharon Holmes was shocked to discover a lump in one of breasts just three months after being cleared by her mammogram results. In a follow-up test doctors found that Sharon had aggressive stage 2 breast cancer that had already spread to her lymph nodes.What could have caused such a massive oversight by the doctors at […]

Jackie’s Case: The Story Behind A Million Dollar Recovery
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Jackie’s Case: The Story Behind A Million Dollar Recovery

It was a parent’s worst nightmare. A young child caught in a freak auto collision during one of the few times of the day that he was left unsupervised.Jackie K. was just ten years old, walking with his backpack on his way to school when a car jumped the curb and ran him over. Thankfully […]

Brooklyn Attorney General Announces Formation of New Immigrant Fraud Bureau
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Brooklyn Attorney General Announces Formation of New Immigrant Fraud Bureau

In the two decades that I’ve worked as a lawyer in the New York Chinese community, I’ve encountered an astonishingly high number of cases of immigrants being taken advantage of by fraudulent immigration services, scam artists, and even other attorneys. Scams directed at recent immigrants are common because of many immigrants’ unfamiliarity with the language, […]

Can Education Put an End to Underground IV Treatments?
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Can Education Put an End to Underground IV Treatments?

A Chinese woman in Flushing Queens has brought a lawsuit against a local storefront medical clinic for administering an intravenous solution that might have caused a severe infection. 61-year-old Myung Hwa Jang visited the clinic seeking a remedy for her cold-like symptoms when she was given the solution, known to her only as “ringer.”Almost immediately […]

A Personal Injury Remedy for Child Pornography’s Victims
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A Personal Injury Remedy for Child Pornography’s Victims

Personal injury cases are often brought to help remedy injuries caused by motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, and medical malpractice. But, as I have written of previously, personal injury lawsuits can, in certain cases, arrive at a resolution where no other legal remedy is available. With the rise of child pornography on the Internet in […]

Student Death at Pi Delta Psi: Hazing at its Worst
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Student Death at Pi Delta Psi: Hazing at its Worst

Pi Delta Psi, one of the country’s most popular Asian American fraternities, was formed nearly two decades ago around the ideals of the organization’s four pillars of character: academic achievement, cultural awareness, righteousness, and friendship/loyalty. None of those traits seemed to be on display earlier in December when the fraternity’s Baruch College chapter allegedly engaged […]

What Really Happens When You Are Injured by a Municipal Entity
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What Really Happens When You Are Injured by a Municipal Entity

Large corporations and municipalities are notoriously difficult for wronged individuals to take on outside of a court of law. Of the many recent instances of municipal entities wielding their substantial power to get their way, one of the most infuriating is the bullying of Roselle, NJ resident Ashley Henderson by the New Jersey Transit Corporation.On […]

13 Spinal Surgery Patients Exposed to Fatal Brain Disease
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13 Spinal Surgery Patients Exposed to Fatal Brain Disease

13 spinal surgery patients in the Northeast may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD, after being operated on with equipment that was used previously on a patient that showed symptoms of the disease before her death.CJD is a rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disease that typically affects 200 Americans every year. It affects the victim’s […]

Stryker Implant Labeled Deadly by FDA
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Stryker Implant Labeled Deadly by FDA

I’ve written before about the dangers of faulty implants and the companies that continue producing them in spite of the warnings of surgeons. The latest of these treacherous products is Stryker’s OASYS Midline Occiput Plate, a spinal implant component that has been shown in many cases to fracture once it is installed in the patient, […]

Making Church Leaders Pay for their Negligence
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Making Church Leaders Pay for their Negligence

Criminal trials aren’t always the most effective way to hold negligent parties accountable for their wrongdoing. In the case of Andrew Ward, a young man who was sexually abused as a child by Peoria, Ill. priest Thomas Maloney, the civil lawsuit that his family launched against the Diocese of Peoria is making the church pay […]

What Are the Rights of the Injured Asiana Passengers?
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What Are the Rights of the Injured Asiana Passengers?

New tragic reports continue to surface a week after the Asiana Airlines 214 crash. Though both Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia were killed immediately after impact, officials just confirmed last Friday that one of the girls was run over by a fire truck responding to the crash. It has not yet been confirmed whether this […]

Asiana Crash Highlights Everyday Heroes
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Asiana Crash Highlights Everyday Heroes

As the NTSB continues to explore possible causes of the tragic Asiana Boeing 777 crash on July 6th, much of the news coverage until now has speculated about equipment malfunction and pilot error, or else recounted the injuries and the inconceivable horrors endured onboard the ill-fated aircraft. However the incident has also been a source […]