Personal Injury Claims During a Pandemic and Beyond: “Beyond” What Will We Take With Us?
Perhaps one of, if not the biggest, lessons from the past 15 months has been learning to abstain from grand declarations about what the future will hold. With that important qualifier, I am placing this particular post in the “beyond” category. Almost a year to the date, this blog began not know...
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The Truth About Nursing Homes and COVID-19
NY Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, released a report this past Thursday that criticized NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, also a Democrat, for grossly underreporting the New York state nursing home COVID-19 deaths by the thousands. A few hours after this report, NY state health officials added m...
Personal Injury Claims During a Pandemic and Beyond: “The (Surprise) Billing Stops Here”
It took a global pandemic that continues to wreak havoc on the Nation but it appears, at least at the time of this post, that one practice will finally be curtailed: surprise billing. The prolific practice of “surprise billing” often gob smacks clients who are already in physical pain. Even wors...
“Super Six”: 6 FMR Attorneys Recognized by Ohio Super Lawyers 2021
Congratulations to our “Super Six” Lawyers who were honored with recognition by Ohio Super Lawyers 2021: FMR Employment Law Attorneys Randy H. Freking, Kelly Mulloy Myers, Erin M. Heidrich and Elizabeth A. Newman, and FMR Personal Injury Attorneys Mark W. Napier and Austin LiPuma. These members ...
Personal Injury Claims During a Pandemic & Beyond: I contracted COVID-19 at work—do I have a personal injury claim?
Without exception, there is one question I’ve received more than any other in recent months: Do I have a personal injury claim against my employer if I get COVID-19 at work? Short answer: No. a. Personal Injury Claim To explain why, it’s first important to understand the nature of the claim from...
Personal Injury Claims During a Pandemic & Beyond
Treatment, Technology, & Telehealth: Receiving Care During COVID-19 Even prior to a pandemic, an emergency department (“ED”) was one of the last places any person would want to be. Since the known proliferation of COVID-19 in March, 2020, ED numbers have starkly declined by almost half, from...
Increased Risk of Deadly Pressure Injuries in Nursing Homes During COVID-19
Residents of nursing homes are one of the most vulnerable populations during COVID-19. And, the risk for the development of pressure injuries has increased because of the coronavirus. This is due to the reduction and quarantine of direct care staff who have contracted the virus, sequestration of dir...