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You Don’t Need Significant Impact to Have Traumatic Brain Injury- Helpful Information

April 25
Personal Injury

As a personal injury attorney, I have often been concerned about the lack of diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in injured people I represent. Fortunately, we have come to a time when there is more awareness and understanding of the need for medical professionals to address brain injuries. This awareness it is in part of recognition by the NFL of the brain injuries sustained b... CONTINUE READING

Joel Feroleto Recognized With Sarah G. Metzger Human Rights Award

April 15
About Our Firm

Feroleto Law attorney, Joel Feroleto, and Christopher Hull, Director of Community Development for the Town of Hamburg, New York were... CONTINUE READING

State audit finds delay in nursing home fines

February 25
Nursing Home Abuse

The New York State Health Department is the state agency responsible for imposing fines on nursing homes when safety violations occur. In 2007, the average time to issue a fine was six months. Currently, it takes the State Health Department an average of four years to levy a fine. Typically, fines are placed when there is an immediate danger to patient safety. There are 631 nursi... CONTINUE READING

A Call to Safeguard Workers

February 5
Work Injury

The Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health, “WNYCOSH”, an independent not-for-profit safety group issued a report January 25, 2016, providing that the Scaffold Law, Labor Law Section 240 is essential to protect construction workers. As a son of a construction worker, I feel strongly that work sites should be safe. As a personal injury attorney, who has represented many cons... CONTINUE READING

I Take It Personally

January 26
About Our Firm

I take personally, when a person or company tries to keep the truth from the public. I, as an attorney, was gagged by a trial judge in the case Fordham-Coleman v. National Fuel Gas Distrib. Corp., 42 A.D.3d 106 (4th Dept. 2007). I represented the family of an elderly woman who froze to death after Na... CONTINUE READING

Does Cell Phone Radiation Cause Brain Cancer?

January 20
Defective Products

Researchers investigating radiation from cell phones disagree on whether cell phones are a potential carcinogen, however there is a growing body of research which is raising concern. Some safety precautions are discussed below. Personal injury attorneys have seen many products with delayed onset injuries. Examples include asbestos, which now can accurately be attributed to causing a very specific... CONTINUE READING

What You Need to Know about Hoverboards

December 23
Defective Products

One of this year's hottest holiday presents are hoverboards. In more ways than one. There have been a number of incidents where the battery powered devices have ignited on fire. A quick check of the Internet will show articles and video, such as an incident inside of the mall in Washington state. Other fires have occurred in Louisiana and New York. Basically, the item is like a Segway, bu... CONTINUE READING

Essure Revisited – Continued Complications

September 22
Defective Products

Essure is a nonsurgical, permanent birth control option for women. Essure are small coils that are inserted into a woman's fallopian tubes, thus blocking them... CONTINUE READING