New Jersey has a lot to be proud of. We have the most diners in the world. We’re the birthplace of the lightbulb, the phonograph and the film projector. And we can’t forget NJ natives Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, Jack Nicholson and so many more. But one thing we’re not so proud of? Our traffic. According to a recent report from TRIP, a national transportation research nonprofit, that traffic is only set to surge with an [...]
A baby born this past March recently celebrated his seven-month birthday with his family in Garfield, New Jersey. Lucas Santa Maria was diagnosed with a fatal condition before he was born – a condition that, up until now, no baby in the world has ever survived outside the womb. However, Lucas did, with the help of doctors who performed groundbreaking surgery that saved his life. His condition, called exencephaly, occurs when a fetus’ brain develops outside [...]
A report from the Joint Authorities Technical Review (JATR), tasked with providing an account on how federal regulators certified the Boeing 737 Max jet, released a long-awaited report on Friday. The 737 Max was involved in two deadly crashes within five months of each other this past year, one in Indonesia and one in Ethiopia. In both crashes, black box data suggests that the 737’s new MCAS system malfunctioned, causing the pilots to lose control of [...]
Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey-based consumer healthcare and pharmaceutical company, is back in the news with a voluntary recall of its popular Johnson’s Baby Powder due to low-level asbestos contamination. The recall is limited to one lot containing more than 33,000 bottles that were produced and shipped in the U.S. last year. The company initiated the recall in response to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) test that revealed levels of chrysotile fibers asbestos contamination [...]
Nursing homes and residential care facilities have a responsibility to their patients to provide them with the care and dignity to which they’re entitled as human beings. Unfortunately, some facilities and staff don’t hold up their end of the bargain, whether through carelessness or gross negligence, and our loved ones end up injured or abused. Residential care negligence in New Jersey A terrible example of apparent nursing home negligence recently surfaced here in New Jersey at [...]
Eighteen wheelers and tractor trailers are a critical link in the chain of commerce in this country, but they also contribute to thousands of car accidents, injuries and deaths each year on our nation’s highways. Autonomous trucks could theoretically replace human drivers and significantly reduce the number of accidents – at least the ones caused by human error. An article in Trucks.com analyzes a report on advanced technology and commercial vehicles by Alexander Potter, an analyst [...]
Birth injuries are devastating and tragic, and it can crush parents when they discover that their child's injury might have been prevented. If your newborn's injuries were caused by medical negligence, our civil justice system provides a venue which allows those who have been injured because of someone else's negligence to pursue compensation for their losses. These are three questions to review with a NJ birth injury lawyer. 1. What caused my child's birth injury? Before [...]
It is a generally accepted principle that the more you practice something the more you improve your performance. The same can be said for surgeons, and according to a new study by healthcare quality advocates LeapFrog, many hospitals fail to comply with the LeapFrog Group's minimum volume standards for eight high-risk surgeries. The LeapFrog Group's Inpatient Surgery Report 2019 states: “Patients undergoing high-risk surgeries have a higher likelihood of errors, complications and even death at a [...]
The New Jersey State Police report that there were 566 traffic fatalities in 2018, which was down 9.3% from the previous year when there were 624 deaths in car crashes. A story in North Jersey.com quotes Chuck Farmer of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS): "It is encouraging. It's always nice to see the numbers going down." Farmer admitted that it would be difficult to identify what contributed to the nearly 10 percent decrease in [...]
Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow, LLP is proud to announce that Shareholder Daryl Zaslow has been named “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers for his work in Medical Malpractice Law, in Woodbridge, NJ. Mr. Zaslow has been recognized by Best Lawyers every year since 2011, and now, though he is only 49 years of age, has earned the distinction of “Lawyer of the Year.” Best Lawyers is “the oldest and most respected peer review publication in the [...]
