The media always launch attacks against plaintiffs receiving millions of dollars in compensation, lawyers representing them, and the jury who awarded the damages. The media say that plaintiffs are making a mountain out of a mole hill; lawyers are merely seeking cash and popularity, while the jurors ruined a company employing hundreds of people or imperiled the career of a young promising doctor. Worse, they sensationalize stories regarding ambulance chasing lawyers and use lines which were obviously culled from Josh Grisham novels. We don’t see anything unethical in what we do. Our aim is to fight our client’s case and get the highest jury award possible through legal and ethical means. We Scranton Personal Injury Lawyers have been litigating for many years, and we expect attacks leveled against us every time we file a complaint.

The media should look at the other parties and see their unethical practice. Prior to any complaint that we file against doctors and hospitals, we determine first the unethical practice committed by them. We sometimes discover cover-up, botched death certificates, failure to report the real cause of death, missing doctor’s prescription copy, and many more. Hospital employees are threatened with a possible removal of their jobs if they allow themselves to be witnesses for the plaintiffs. Instead of facing their liabilities, insurance companies try their best to reduce it by convincing the victims to settle at a very insulting sum. As a trap, they would say that they will give the money in the next 24 hours. These are unethical practices by the hospitals and the insurance that the media should also check. Besides, the most unethical practice in any personal injury case is trying to limit one’s responsibility for the damage that he caused. You don’t just bump a kid riding his bike, and give him a candy! That’s ridiculous! If you or a loved one suffered from injuries resulting from negligence or mishaps of others, please call us and make an appointment with a Scranton Personal Injury Lawyer immediately.

Accutane, a drug for the treatment of severe nodular acne, made shocking news in the medical field and in pharmaceutical research when it was found to cause severe, life-altering, if not life threatening birth defects in children whose mothers took Accutane (Isotretinoin) prior to or during pregnancy. When it was launched in 1982 and made available to the public as that wonder drug for clearer skin as it treats severe cystic acne vulgaris, a kind of acne that affects deeper skin tissue, it was not known nor disclosed that it could have such dangerous side effects to its users. Do you know how pregnancy affects the hormones, and how problematic hormones in turn result in terrible acne? Since unsightly acne comes as a result also of pregnancy, many women dealt with pregnancy associated acne by taking Accutane. Unfortunately this either resulted in miscarriage or, for those whose fetuses survived pregnancy, Accutane Birth Defects like hearing impairment and/ or missing earlobes, facial deformities or malformations, heart abnormalities and problems, glandular and central nervous system malformations. Because of these findings, it was found that Accutane results in severe and life-threatening defects in newborn babies or even fetuses yet to be born. Even a single dose of Accutane was proven to cause major birth defects of the ears, eyes, face, skull, heart and brain of the baby. These findings have in turn led to major product liability lawsuits all across America, filed and maintained by those who used Accutane and suffered its negative side effects.