As the best personal injury attorneys in Cincinnati, our firm sees many different types of lawsuits. Each is unique, and we give each case our utmost attention and care. Across the nation, however, which personal injury cases happen the most?
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Slip and Fall Injuries
More than three million senior citizens go to emergency rooms each year for slip-and-fall injuries, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). And while many of these accidents happen at home, many happen out in public. Some of these public slip-and-fall situations could have been prevented if the business owners were not negligent.
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Medical Malpractice
These cases are more common than many people assume. Medication errors, delayed diagnoses, misdiagnoses, and surgical errors are just a few of the varieties of painful and traumatic malpractice cases. Many injuries happen in childbirth – to both mother and child – due to medical mistakes. Anesthesiologists can make critical errors when bringing people in and out of consciousness. And “Failure to Treat,” in which a medical professional considers a condition to be less serious than it is, is common.
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Vehicular Collisions
Car crashes happen for a variety of reasons. If an accident was caused by reckless driving, speeding, or driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, then the driver who caused the wreck could be found guilty of negligence. Proving a driver’s negligence is not easy, though, so you need an experienced attorney to be successful in such a suit.
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Product Liability
In May of 2020, Johnson & Johnson stopped selling baby powder made with talcum powder in the U.S. Many women had sued Johnson & Johnson after using this baby powder for feminine hygiene. They had developed mesothelioma, ovarian cancer, and other horrendous medical conditions. What was most striking about these cases, however, was the sheer number of personal injury lawsuits – nearly 20,000 individual lawsuits.