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If your child has suffered a birth injury, you may need to speak with a birth injury lawyer. Some birth injuries are preventable. When the negligence of a delivery team led to your child sustaining a birth injury, your family may be entitled to recover compensation that can help you provide your child with the […]

Hospitals run by the Department of Veterans Affairs are intended to provide military veterans with medical care after their service to the country. But sometimes, VA hospitals commit acts of negligence or recklessness in treating veterans. A veteran who has been harmed by care from the VA may wonder about their rights to file a […]

Did you ever think the day would come where the American government would pay you to stay home from work? Well, you’d better believe it because the coronavirus crisis has caused that to happen on a massive scale. Suddenly, businesses have been told to close their doors and Congress is sending relief checks to all […]

In certain circumstances, a doctor’s failure to properly diagnose a patient’s condition may constitute medical malpractice when that failure causes additional injury to the patient. The doctor’s failure to diagnose the condition correctly must also have been the result of negligence to support a legal claim for medical malpractice. What Is a Failure-to-Diagnose? A failure-to-diagnose […]

Between 1992 and 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has tracked approximately 30,000 medication errors across the US — since these are voluntary reports, the agency believes that the actual number of errors was much higher. Medication errors can arise due to one or several factors, including failing to factor in pre-existing conditions or […]

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONLEGAL SERVICES  MARCH 1, 2018   Jason Matzus Owner at Matzus Law, LLC LLC EDUCATION:  University of Pittsburgh School of Law   Attorney Jason Matzus has been named the 2018 Pittsburgh Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. In addition, he […]

No matter what your job is, you should always be safe in your work environment. Safety is job number one in any work environment. Unsafe work environments can range from fall hazards, unsafe energy control hazards, unsafe job practices or unsafe equipment, to name just a few. Whatever the job entails and wherever it is […]

A city of Pittsburgh fire truck that was responding to a call was involved in an accident in Squirrel Hill South. According to officials the incident occurred in the morning at the intersection of Forward Avenue and Commercial Street. Two firefighters were injured in the accident and both were taken to a local hospital in […]