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moremoreGoodyear is recalling about 41,000 tires, which can be identified by:
After the family of a young women, who was killed in a car accident after a Goodyear Wrangler Silent Armor tire fell apart on a Texas highway, filed suit, Goodyear announced the recall of these tires.
This recall is considered unusual because these defective tires are not bottom-of-the-market tires that are typically the common subject of a recall. The recalled Wrangler Silent Armor tires are expensive, top of the line tires that people would buy if they were seeking out safe and durable tires. In fact, Goodyear’s advertisement for them include very specific promises about the quality of the tires such as:
Obviously something is seriously wrong here because tires of this top-of-the-market design should not be failing like this.
All of the recalled tires were made at the same plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and preliminary investigation has discovered that the tire builders working at this plant were running a drug ring out of there. Shortly after the recalled tires were made, undercover narcotics agents shut down the opium-cocaine-Ecstasy-marijuana trafficking operation being conducted from inside Goodyear’s Fayetteville tire plant.
John Gsanger is the attorney working on this case and is currently trying to gather evidence about as many Wrangler Silent Armor tire failure incidents as possible. This information is critical to understanding the magnitude of the problem.
If you or someone you know has had a tire failure involving a Wrangler Silent Armor tire please contact John Gsanger or the attorneys at Domnick & Shevin and we will let him know. Even if the tire failure did not result in a tragedy, any information documenting the failure is of significant importance.
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Seeking Second Opinion From Medical Professionals
– Palm Beach Gardens, FL - A recent Wall street Journal Article “What if the Doctor is Wrong?” discussed when patients should seek a second opinion on some cancers, asthma and other potentially serious or life threatening conditions, as they can be tricky to diagnose, which could lead to incorrect treatments.
According to the Institute of Medicine, misdiagnoses are to blame for nearly 98,000 patient deaths a year.
Many people are afraid to get a second opinion - not wanting to offend or question their doctor; however, second opinions have been standard medical practice for years. A good doctor will welcome additional input and will support your efforts. A second opinion can confirm the diagnosis or allow you to discover other overlooked possibilities. We need to remember that medical professionals have different ideas about how to diagnose and treat conditions and diseases. Some doctors take a conservative or traditional approach to treating their patients, while others are more aggressive and use the latest tests and therapies. Technology and medical research is also changing rapidly.
A diagnosis or understanding of a treatment can be scary and confusing. To gain more information, it is sometimes wise to seek a second opinion or advice from another qualified doctor or group of specialists before proceeding forward. It could provide you with available treatment options which would allow you to make a more informed choice.
You can ask your doctor for a recommendation (preferably someone outside their practice), ask someone you trust for a recommendation (another doctor) or you can check with your insurance provider. Make sure you get copies of your medical records and send them to the second doctor. Here are some things to ask your doctor or specialist when seeking a second opinion:
There are no hard-and-fast rules to tell you when a second opinion is necessary. If you are provided with a diagnosis or treatment option that may be chronic or terminal, or if you require any sort of invasive, long-term or expensive treatment (lifelong drug regimen or surgery), then it may make sense to get a second opinion. You deserve the most advanced medical care possible. The decision is ultimately yours to make. A smart patient is one that educates themselves on their condition - learns as much as they can on treatment options and then makes an informed decision.
If you have questions regarding second opinions, or if you or someone you love has been injured because of a mistake or error made during the administration of medical attention and care, call 561-630-5363 to talk to one of our attorneys today.
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Domnick & Shevin, PL, a Palm Beach Gardens Litigation Firm, focuses on Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Catastrophic Injury, Product Liability, and Mass Torts. The firm is headquartered at 5100 PGA Boulevard, Suite 317 and may be contacted at (561) 630-5363. Additional information about Domnick & Shevin, PL may be obtained from the firm’s website at www.acallforjustice.com.
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Domnick & Shevin, PL Listed in 2011-2012 “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®
Palm Beach Gardens, FL – The law firm of Domnick & Shevin, PL is proud to announce that the firm has been listed in “Best Law Firms” 2011-2012 by Best Lawyers® and U.S. News & World Report, for both personal injury litigation and medical malpractice litigation, tier 2.
To be eligible, a firm must have at least one lawyer listed in “Best Lawyers”® in America”. Attorney Sean C. Domnick has been recognized for personal injury litigation and medical malpractice law and that Attorney Harry A. Shevin has been listed for personal injury litigation. In the three short years since Domnick & Shevin, PL opened their doors; they have gone from start up to recognition as one of the top law firms in the nation.
Of the 10,968 firms that were eligible to submit information for the ranking process, 9,633 firms received rankings. Achieving a high ranking is a special distinction that signals a unique combination of excellence and breadth of expertise.
U.S. News and Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" involved surveying thousands of law firm clients; leading lawyers and law firm managers; partners and associates; and marketing officers and recruiting officers. Each were asked what factors they considered vital for clients hiring law firms, for lawyers choosing a firm to refer a legal matter to, and for lawyers seeking employment. All of the quantitative and qualitative data were combined into an overall U.S. News – Best Lawyers overall score for each firm. Firms with the highest overall scores were included on metropolitan lists that covered as many as 81 practice areas in 171 metropolitan areas, and 7 states.
The Best Lawyers® is a leading legal referral guide evaluating the work of top lawyers in the same specialties and geographic areas. Inclusion in Best Lawyers® is based entirely on peer review. The publication’s selection process is based on a rigorous survey comprised of nearly four million confidential evaluations. Best Lawyers® has been regarded as one of the most respected referral lists of attorneys in practice and recognizes nominated attorneys for their commitment to legal excellence. To view the list online, visit www.bestlawyers.com.The special edition will be available in print in December.
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Domnick & Shevin, PL, a Palm Beach Gardens Litigation Firm, focuses on Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Catastrophic Injury, Product Liability, and Mass Torts. The firm is headquartered at 5100 PGA Boulevard, Suite 317 and may be contacted at (561) 630-5363. Additional information about Domnick & Shevin, PL may be obtained from the firm’s website at www.acallforjustice.com.
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Sean Domnick, Domnick & Shevin, PL
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Kim Sailer, BARD Marketing/PR
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Domnick & Shevin, PL Supports National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month
Palm Beach Gardens, FL – The law firm of Domnick & Shevin, PL is proud to support National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month - October. This is an opportunity for parents, students, teachers, community members and organizations to continue to raise awareness of the dangers of bullying and cyberbullying and to discuss ways to be proactive in stopping and preventing bullying from occurring.
Bullying can happen anywhere: face-to-face, by text messages or on the web. It is not limited by age, gender, or education level. It is not a phase and it is not a joke. Bullying can cause lasting harm, according to the StopBullying.gov website.
According to recently released data by the National Center for Education Statistics, more than 70 percent of students play some role in bullying, whether as a bully, a victim or a witness, demonstrating the need for increased awareness. Other research suggests that bullying and harassment can lead to poorer educational outcomes, lower future aspirations, frequent school absenteeism, and lower grade-point averages.
"Our law firm currently represents Josie Lou Ratley," said attorney Sean Domnick. "On March 17, 2010, Josie, a lively 15-year-old middle school student, had her life drastically change when she was physically attacked while waiting at her school bus stop at Deerfield Beach Middle School. The attack was the result of of text message exchanges and left Josie with a traumatic brain injury."
Domnick added, "Today, thousands of teens are afraid to go to school. Children are tormented, threatened and harassed by other teens using this technology on a 24/7 basis. For victims, it is often relentless. Please join us in supporting National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month this month and help keep it top of mind year-round."
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Domnick & Shevin, PL, a Palm Beach Gardens Litigation Firm, focuses on Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Catastrophic Injury, Product Liability, and Mass Torts. The firm is headquartered at 5100 PGA Boulevard, Suite 317 and may be contacted at (561) 630-5363. Additional information about Sean Domnick and Domnick & Shevin, PL may be obtained from the firm's website at www.acallforjustice.com.
Sean Domnick on Fox 30 News: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Any time you make a trip to the hospital, you expect the medical professionals to make intelligent decisions about your health care.That’s why Florida voters demanded change in 2004.
They passed Amendment 7, technically known as Article 10 Section 25 of Florida’s Constitution, and commonly known as the “Patients’ Right to Know” act.
“The intent of the law was to give people access to their own health care records so that they could take action to protect their interests in the future,” said Dr. Jay Wolfson, a medical ethicist and professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. “The (Florida) Supreme Court, in its wisdom said, the people of Florida have spoken and said we want this open and transparent.”
Open and transparent records so that you, as the customer, know about adverse medical incidents at hospitals anywhere in the state.
Theoretically.
“I’d like to know how many bad or good experiences that hospital are involved in,” said Dr. Wolfson, who is also an attorney as well as one of the nation’s leading researchers on medical mistakes. “I don’t need to have the personal identifying information. I need to have general product performance information like consumer reports.”
“And that’s not available right now?” asked investigators with the CBS4 I-Team.
“No it’s not,” said Dr. Wolfson. “Hospitals are unwilling to part with it [adverse incident information] for the most part.”
Seven years after the Florida Constitutional Amendment passed, the CBS4 I-Team has learned most hospitals won’t give up that information.
This, even after the Florida Supreme Court, in 2008, ruled that the new constitutional amendment required it.
“They (hospitals) won’t give that (information) to you. They won’t give it up even though the law says they have to,” said Dr. Wolfson. “And they will say it’s privileged information. They essentially are ignoring the (Florida) Supreme Court.”
“People want to (have control) and they’re entitled to have control over their own health care decision-making,” said Sean Domnick, a Palm Beach County attorney, who argued that groundbreaking case before the Supreme Court. “But you can’t make a decision (about health care) if you don’t have the information.”
Domnick won that argument before Florida’s Supreme Court three years ago but he says that even today hospitals consistently still thwart the patient’s right to know throughout Florida.
“We’re still fighting the same battles. And that is that the hospitals don’t want to give up this information that they’re required to give up,” said Domnick.
Seventeen year-old Lacey Sullivan and her family found out firsthand about this issue when they tried to find out what exactly happened, what adverse medical incident occurred, when her 44 year-old mother suddenly died at a west Florida hospital.
“I would like to know why my mom just died out of nowhere,” said Sullivan. “It’s been six years and still nothing about how it happened and why it happened.”
If you need more evidence that hospitals are not complying with Florida’s Constitution look no further than the court deposition of the risk manager at Northside Hospital in St Petersburg during a medical malpractice lawsuit.
“What if anything has Northside Hospital done to make these documents easily accessible since Article 10 Section 25 of Florida’s Constitution was passed in 2004?” asked a plaintiff’s attorney in the videotaped legal deposition obtained by the CBS4 I-Team.
“We’ve done nothing,” replied the hospital’s risk manager.
I-Team investigators Stephen Stock asked attorney Sean Domnick about that issue, “They’re not keeping track of adverse incidents?”
“No. They’re not,” said Domnick.
And that, experts say, is even more troubling because it means that critical data tracking mistakes or bad outcomes at hospitals are missing at many hospitals making it difficult to objectively measure quality control at those hospitals.
Experts and lawyers alike say that means that though consumers clearly want hospitals to track adverse events, when bad things happen, much of the evidence discovered in courts around the state show hospitals simply aren’t doing that.
“What that is telling us is that there is a great risk when bad medicine is happening in these hospitals that it’s not being investigated, it’s not being corrected and people who are being repeatedly negligent are allowed to continue to provide substandard medical care,” said Sean Domnick.
The CBS4 I-Team asked for adverse incidents at more than a half-dozen hospitals throughout South Florida.
But not one hospital would give the I-Team that information.
Several hospitals’ public relations staff stated that the I-Team reporters weren’t “patients” although since we live here we could be.
Other hospitals told us their attorneys interpret Amendment 7 to mean that the hospital doesn’t have to give out a list of incidents just information about a single adverse incident to the patient involved in that incident.
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Domnick & Shevin Attorneys Recognized as “Best Lawyer in America”
Palm Beach Gardens, FL – The law firm of Domnick & Shevin, PL is proud to announce that Attorney Sean C. Domnick has been selected by his peers to be listed in the 2012 edition of “Best Lawyers in America” for both Personal Injury Litigation and Medical Malpractice Law and that Attorney Harry A. Shevin has been listed for Personal Injury Litigation.
Sean C. Domnick has been practicing law in Palm Beach County for more than 20 years. He represents clients in catastrophic personal injury cases involving wrongful death, medical malpractice, product liability and mass torts—such as drug litigation. He has earned Florida Bar Board Certification for the competency and experience of a civil trial attorney. Mr. Domnick is a member Palm Beach County Bar Association, The Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, the Florida Justice Association and the American Association for Justice. He is also currently on the Florida Bar’s Code & Rules of Evidence Committee and is on the Board of Directors of the Palm Beach County Justice Association.
Harry A. Shevin has been practicing law in Palm Beach County for more than 18 years. He represents individuals and their families who have been injured by the negligence of others in the areas of personal injury, catastrophic injury, toxic torts, medical malpractice and wrongful death litigation. He has earned Florida Bar Board Certification for the competency and experience of a civil trial attorney. Mr. Shevin is a member of the Palm Beach County Bar Association, The Florida Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Palm Beach County Justice Association, the Florida Justice Association and the American Association for Justice.
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The Best Lawyers in America is a leading legal referral guide evaluating the work of top lawyers in the same specialties and geographic areas. Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review. The publication’s selection process is based on a rigorous survey comprised of nearly three million confidential evaluations. Best Lawyers has been regarded as one of the most respected referral lists of attorneys in practice and recognizes nominated attorneys for their commitment to legal excellence. To view the list online, visit www.bestlawyers.com.The special edition will be available in print in December.
Domnick & Shevin, PL, a Palm Beach Gardens Litigation Firm, focuses on Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Catastrophic Injury, Product Liability, and Mass Torts. The firm is headquartered at 5100 PGA Boulevard, Suite 317 and may be contacted at (561) 630-5363. Additional information about Domnick & Shevin, PL may be obtained from the firm’s website at www.acallforjustice.com.
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Sean Domnick, Domnick & Shevin, PL
(561) 630-5363
Kim Sailer, BARD Marketing/PR
561-637-2575
Attorneys Sean Domnick & Harry Shevin Named a 2011 “Florida Legal Elite”
Palm Beach Gardens, FL – Attorneys Sean C. Domnick and Harry A. Shevin, of the law firm of Domnick & Shevin, PL have been once again chosen as one of the Florida’s Legal Elite in the 2011 edition of Florida Trend magazine. Florida Trend’s Legal Elite recognizes the top tier of attorneys practicing in Florida as chosen by their colleagues. The Florida Legal Elite list will appear in Florida Trend magazine’s July issue.
Sean C. Domnick has been practicing law in Palm Beach County for more than 20 years. He represents clients in catastrophic personal injury cases involving wrongful death, medical malpractice, product liability and mass torts—such as drug litigation. He has earned Florida Bar Board Certification for the competency and experience of a civil trial attorney. Mr. Domnick is a member Palm Beach County Bar Association, The Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, the Florida Justice Association and the American Association for Justice. He is also currently on the Florida Bar’s Code & Rules of Evidence Committee and is on the Board of Directors of the Palm Beach County Justice Association.
Harry A. Shevin, a Florida native, is a trial attorney who represents individuals and their families who have been injured by the negligence of others. His practice focuses on personal injury, catastrophic injury, toxic torts, medical malpractice and wrongful death litigation. He has earned Florida Bar Board Certification for the competency and experience of a civil trial attorney. He is a member of the Palm Beach County Bar Association, The Florida Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Palm Beach County Justice Association (Past President), the Florida Justice Association and the American Association for Justice.
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Domnick & Shevin, PL, a Palm Beach Gardens Litigation Firm, focuses on Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Catastrophic Injury, Product Liability, and Mass Torts. The firm is headquartered at 5100 PGA Boulevard, Suite 317 and may be contacted at (561) 630-5363. Additional information about Sean Domnick, Harry Shevin or Domnick & Shevin, PL may be obtained from the firm’s website at www.acallforjustice.com.
