Author: The Pisanchyn Law Firm

With Spring weather inching closer and closer more people are getting out and enjoying the sun. This includes pedestrians walking around neighborhoods and towns and bicyclists trading in their keys for a helmet. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the 3 pedestrian groups most at-risk for accidents are seniors 65 and older, [...]

While hoverboards have been growing in popularity in recent years, the electronic scooters have caused concerns due to the explosive risks. The Consumer Product Safety Commission last year recalled more than 500,000 of the devices from 11 different companies. Many airlines have banned them on flights, and several local colleges do not allow hoverboards in [...]

Serious injuries require costly and sometimes even life-long medical treatment, and unfortunately, when those bills pile up, recovery is often an afterthought. No matter the type of accident that caused your injury, if you have concerns paying your medical bills, and aren’t sure who should be paying these bills, we can help you. Remember, all [...]

You’ve suffered a serious injury. You’ve found an injury attorney – what happens next? Every case will not be the same. What happens immediately after hiring an attorney largely depends on the type of case, when you hire an attorney, and how severe your injuries from the accident are. Generally speaking, the first thing an [...]

Baby injuries associated with nursery products like carriers, strollers and cribs are on the rise, a study shows. The study found a 23.7 percent increase in injuries to young children related to nursery products between 2003 and 2011. Overall, the injuries in the study weren’t associated with one particular product: 19.5% were associated with baby [...]

70% of drivers eat and drink while operating a vehicle and 83% of the drivers usually drink a beverage behind the wheel. Taking our meals on our travels is so common that we may not even realize how it impacts our driving ability. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) study, The Impact of Driver [...]

Insurance companies have in-house counsel and a lot more resources than almost any worker. They use surveillance, nurse case managers and investigators to try cut off your benefits if they don’t deny your claim outright. Workers’ Compensation is a very complex area of law and not having an expert in this field on your side [...]

This week is Highway Safety Law Awareness Week in Pennsylvania, and lawmakers are spreading the word about some new rules of the road you should know about. Highway Safety Law Awareness Week runs from Feb. 19-25. Here are four driving laws passed recently in Pennsylvania you should know about: The “Child Passenger Safety” Law Update [...]

The following were the top 10 most frequently cited standards by Federal OSHA in fiscal year 2015: Fall protection, construction Hazard communication standard, general industry Scaffolding, general requirements, construction Respiratory protection, general industry Control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout), general industry Powered industrial trucks, general industry Ladders, construction Electrical, wiring methods, components and equipment, general industry [...]

Many people may be under the mistaken impression that simply because poor weather conditions contributed to an accident, victims may not be able to recover for their injuries. In fact, an insurance company may try and claim that the accident in which you were involved was unavoidable and did not reflect negligence on the part [...]

Recently, we wrote about the Samsung Galaxy 7 explosions. These phones are back on the shelf after the company recalled millions of phones and fixed the manufacturing defect that caused these explosions. But why are more and more lithium-ion batteries having this same issue? Lithium-ion batteries have been making this kind of news for years—they’ve [...]

Hearing loss is now the most common workplace injury in the United States—and those who work in the construction or manufacturing industries are often the most at-risk of suffering auditory damage. 22 million – The number of workers exposed to damaging levels of noise at work each year. 4 million – The number of workers [...]