“How can I help prevent a hospital accident from injuring me?” Ultimately, your fate will be in the hands of your medical providers, and that can be very scary for many patients. At Rasmussen & Miner, our hospital accident lawyer has seen many negative outcomes due to the negligence or carelessness of a physician…

Primary care physicians in the United States are failing to offer lung cancer screening for long-term smokers, resulting in a complete failure to diagnose lung cancer. In 2012, the American Lung Association issued evidence-based guidelines recommending the annual screening with low-dose CT of long-term smokers over 55 who smoke or smoked within the last 15…

Most of the vehicle accidents that occur in this country are caused by some type of error on the driver’s part. Each year, there are approximately 40,000 victims killed in car accidents. Many of these victims practiced safe driving behaviors and obeyed all traffic regulations, but unfortunately encountered another driver who failed to do the…

Setting aside all of the legal mechanics involved, let’s discuss what the purpose of a wrongful death lawsuit is. Most people understand the concept of consequences, and a wrongful death lawsuit is something that is probably best discussed in that context. From childhood, it is society, our parents, or other influences in our lives that…

Forensic accident reconstruction is the process of taking all of the available data from an accident, including photographs and measurements taken at the accident of skid marks, photographs of impact points on the vehicles, photographs of the debris spread area, the weight of the vehicles, the amount of pressure applied to the brakes if recorded…

The first time a person reports an allegation of abuse in a child molestation case is often referred to as an outcry.  There are many different types of outcries and the nature of the outcry can have an impact on the case. Below is a discussion of some of the different types of outcries commonly…