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When choosing a personal injury attorney, important considerations include the attorney's record resolving personal injury cases successfully. The Powell family has a track record in personal injury cases built over 116 years of favorable jury verdicts and settlements. Rated highly by our former ...

For 116 years, the Powell family has represented all types of personal injury victims in all types of personal injury cases and scenarios. If you have any questions about a potential claim for damages based on a personal injury, attorney Chris Powell has the necessary expertise and experience to ...

Properly litigating a personal injury case to ensure our clients complete and total recovery of losses is always the first and foremost priority of the experienced personal injury and medical malpractice attorney Chris Powell. If you require legal counsel and assistance in litigating a claim for ...

Here is the link for part one of this blog. Defense attorneys typically will present certain arguments using evidence of any and all prior previous litigation involving the plaintiff. The defendant naturally wants to reduce any award of damages in the present case. Where past personal injury laws...

About Emergency Room Malpractice Emergency rooms are chaotic – based on the high number of patients and, of course, the fact that some unexpected medical emergency has occurred. It should be no surprise that emergency rooms are one of the leading sources of medical errors and malpractice claims....

About Pain And Suffering Damages In A Personal Injury Case In negligence and other tort cases, damages are generally defined as the amount of money that is awarded to compensate someone who has been harmed by another's wrongdoing or negligence. There are two categories of damages, economic and ...

About Radiology Malpractice In recent years, the professional role of a radiologist has evolved due to this specialist's increasing involvement in the clinical-therapeutic management of the patient. Because radiologists have been assigned these new duties and liabilities, they are exposed to a h...

About Retroactive Social Security Disability Benefits During the coronavirus pandemic, many Pennsylvania residents on disability are concerned about receiving their payments. A claim for Social Security disability benefits may require a determination whether a present or former claimant is entit...

About the Right of Privacy Some people prefer to keep details of their lives as confidential as possible. Of course, your name may show up in public records sometimes, but there are limits. In some cases, you may have a constitutional right to privacy. When someone releases your confidential inf...

Are You Unable To Continue Working? Your Disability Options: SSDI Are you unable to continue working? Do you have a disability that prevents you from being gainfully employed? You have options. Federal law provides benefits for those who meet the qualifications of the Social Security Act (the “A...

Avoid These Bad Driving Habits While the number of motor vehicle deaths has decreased significantly in the last fifty years because of advancements in vehicle safety technology, new data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that the number of fatal crashes invo...

Brush The Snow Off Your Car. It's The Law! Almost. Last year at this time, the House failed to adopt SB 435, which attempted to accomplish a public safety measure related to the removal of ice from motor vehicles. Last month, the Senate voted unanimously to advance SB 114, a similar bill, which ...

About The Standard Of Care In Medical Malpractice Cases For most of the 20th Century and well into the current Century, Chris Powell has held medical professionals accountable for their medical errors litigating and settling countless medical malpractice cases. Attorney Chris Powell has vast experience...

About The Legal Services Provided Attorney Chris Powell– Medical Malpractice James J. Powell, Sr. practiced law based on the principles of “honor, integrity, and trust” in 1906. Now, 116 years later, the Powell family continues to uphold these principles as Attorney Chris Powell. Now three generations, Chris Powell...

About Nursing Malpractice For most of the last century and well into the current one, the Powell family has held medical professionals accountable for their medical errors as it has litigated and settled countless medical malpractice cases. Attorney Chris Powell has vast experience representing those aff...

About Claims For Defective Medical Devices Many people, young and old, have used a medical device to improve their health and well-being. As one might expect, there has been an acceleration in the development of new medical devices in the last twenty-five years. Along with basic clinical and bio...

About Childbirth Injuries Even without the presence of medical negligence, pregnancy and childbirth involve countless risks and potentially negative results, even in 2019. Pregnancies and their corresponding deliveries do not always follow the plans of parents and physicians. The unexpected ofte...

About Anesthesia Malpractice Since 1906, for over a century, the Powell family has helped victims of medical malpractice recover damages for their injuries. Properly litigating a professional malpractice case, ensuring that our clients complete and total recovery of their losses is al...

A Primer On Personal Injury Damages, Part 2 Properly litigating a personal injury case so that our clients make a complete and total recovery of their losses is always the first and foremost priority of the experienced personal injury attorney Chris Powell. For over 40 years, Chris Powe...

A Medical Malpractice Case Requires A Patient To Suffer Damages Chris Powell serves Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and surrounding areas with convenient office locations in Scranton, Stroudsburg, Moscow, and Taylor. James F. Mundy, Esq. is one of Pennsylvania's most experienced malpractice lawyers and Po...

A Primer On Personal Injury Damages, Part 1 In personal injury civil lawsuits, injured parties may collect damages or financial compensation from the party that is at fault. The purpose of awarding damages in a personal injury case is to “make the plaintiff whole” after an injury. While it is no...

A Future Look At Self-Driving Cars: Humans Are Still The Ultimate Cause Of Accidents Most of the world's automakers consider self-driving cars as the hallmark of 21st Century transportation. Suggesting that self-driving automobiles will dominate the market in the near future makes some drivers n...