The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and strokes describes RSD as, “Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic pain condition that is believed to be the result of dysfunction in the central or peripheral nervous systems. Typical features include dramatic changes in the color and temperature of the skin over the affected limb or body part, accompanied by intense burning pain, skin sensitivity, sweating, and swelling. CRPS I is frequently triggered by tissue injury; the term describes all patients with the above symptoms but with no underlying nerve injury. Patients with CRPS II experience the same symptoms but their cases are clearly associated with a nerve injury.”

If your family member died because a doctor was careless and acting in his best interest, instead of your family member’s best interest would you feel that four years was enough?

I recently received a telephone call from a woman who was driving her 14 year old daughter home from school when they were rearended at high speed.  The crash caused her car to go off the road and into a retaining wall.  The woman’s new car was a total loss.  The woman and her daughter were both injured and were taken to the hospital by ambulance. Everyone knows that an ambulance ride isn’t free.  It was a hit and run. At first, it would appear lucky that the man responsible for the crash returned to the scene 30 minutes later  [ Read More ]

A wrongful death case filed by the Mastrangelo Law Offices in Contra Costa County Superior Court against a local private ambulance company recently settled for $812,000.  The plaintiffs in the case were the adult son and daughter of a 56 year old woman who was killed when the driver of an ambulance that was transporting her from a nursing home to a routine medical appointment crashed into a tree on a residential street in Palo Alto, CA.  The decedent had been residing in a nursing home while recovering from back surgery. The driver of the ambulance was a 19 year  [ Read More ]

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