Medical and Nursing Malpractice Cases
These cases can occur when professional negligence results from failure to perform medical duties, which harms a patient, or neglect of a healthcare facility.
General Personal Injury Cases
These are nonprofessional negligence cases, such as:
- Auto accident cases
- Aviation cases
- Theme park cases
- Liquor liability cases
- Premises liability cases (e.g., slip and fall, sexual assault or physical assault cases)
- Railroad or Maritime cases
- Sports injury cases
- Toxic mold cases
- Water accident cases
- Dog bite cases
Products Liability Cases
These are cases that involve the liability of manufacturers and sellers of a product to buyers and/or users who allege that the product caused injury and was defective. Such cases may include:
Medical device and drug-related cases, such as:
- Accutane
- Avandia®
- Bextra®
- Birth control pills
- Botox®
- Celebrex®
- Hormone therapy
- Fosamax®
- Vioxx®
- Ephedrine
- Oxycontin®
- Dilantin®
- IVC filters
- IV pumps
- Heart valves
- Power morcellators
- Transvaginal mesh
- Hip implants (all metal)
- Implantable defibrillators
- Pacemakers
- Industrial-grade silicone breast implants
- Ventilators
Nonmedical device cases, such as:
- Food
- Cigarettes and lighters
- Children’s toys and kids products
- Machinery and equipment
- Motor vehicles, automobiles, and auto parts
- Household products
- Consumer products (e.g., home appliances)
- Personal care products
- Industrial products
Toxic Torts and Environmental Cases
These cases involve the alleged damages or injuries resulting from the release of toxins into the air and environment, such as:
- Waste products from manufacturing processes
- Electromagnetic fields (e.g., against a utility company)
- Radiation contamination
- Hazardous chemicals in a workplace
- Pesticides
- Waste management and disposal
- Oil spills
- Sick building syndrome
- Lead poisoning
Workers’ Compensation and Workplace Injury Cases
These cases involve job-related injuries or sicknesses that occur from a work-related cause during the course of employment, such as:
- Auto accidents
- Back injuries
- Equipment and machinery related injuries
- Cumulative work-related trauma disorders
- Injuries caused by a striking object while on the job
Criminal Cases
These cases involve any act that is deemed harmful to society and violates the peace and civility of a community, such as:
- DWI – Driving while intoxicated / DUI – Driving under the influence cases
- Criminal cases against individual providers and facilities
- Sexual and physical assault cases
- Child, spouse, or elderly abuse cases
- Criminal environmental cases
- Medicaid and Medicare fraud abuse cases
- Psychiatric defenses and psychiatric issues
- Possession of narcotics cases
- Excessive use of force by law enforcement cases
- Victims of a violent crime cases
Any Case Where Health, Illness or Injury Is an Issue
These cases involve health and well being medical-related issues, such as:
- Family law
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Social Security benefit issues
- Medicare benefit issues
- School health
- Employer-employee relationships
- Sexual harassment
- Probate law
- Right to die
- Physician-facility relationships
- Psychiatrist or therapist abuse or injury
- Insurance issues
- Family Leave Act
- Wrongful adoption
- Bad faith litigation against insurance companies for failure to pay or denial to access to care
- Healthcare professional board disciplinary actions
- Excessive use of force by law enforcement cases