In recent months, we’ve often discussed the issue of elder abuse, including the problem of nursing home neglect. These posts contain some truly distressing information about the frequency of abuse and the utter callousness that the perpetrators show. It is good to be reminded that courts and juries are working…
Home should be a place of joy and comfort, a place to build happy memories and also a place to retreat from the outside world. People deserve to have the feeling of home, whether they own a massive house or rent a studio apartment. At the Brod Firm, our San…
It is a terrifying thought, looking through your car’s windshield to see another vehicle’s headlights coming straight at you. Head-on collisions are particularly terrifying to contemplate. Surprisingly, they are actually relatively uncommon, but head-on accidents can be among the most dangerous of roadway crashes. As an Oakland accident attorney specializing…
There are few advances as important to our society as modern prescription medication. It wasn’t long ago that people died from illnesses we now treat with a basic course of antibiotics. Many medications save lives. Others help manage severe pain and other health problems, making life more livable. However, as…
Whether on our highways, city streets, or residential roads, automobile accidents seem to be almost a daily occurrence in Northern California. These accidents cause serious injury, major property loss, and, all too often, the loss of life. As a San Francisco accident lawyer, Attorney Greg Brod works to help victims…
Along with people across the nation, the team at our San Francisco insurance law firm watched in disbelief as the news of a massive sinkhole in Florida hit the airwaves. When we think of sinkholes, the pictures that come to mind are often of roadways opening up, empty cars clinging…
It is not often that an elder care death captures headlines nationwide. Like many others, the team at our San Francisco nursing home law firm is shocked by the story out of Bakersfield, California. It is a story that demands attention and discussion. It also demands action, both at the…
According to the National Highway Safety Administration (“NHTSA”), 2,791 people lost their lives in fatal car accidents in California during 2011. While this is a slight increase from the year prior, there has general been a downward trend in fatal crashes in the state since 2007 when 3,995 people died…
As the presence of elder abuse in our society is made more aware to the public, we are finding that the problem may be bigger, and worse, than initially suspected. An increasing number of elderly citizens are put in nursing homes but there has always been a suspected underreporting of…
Nearly three years have passed since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, but the oil spill still looms large for the people and businesses impacted by its massive scope. As your San Francisco/Oakland oil spill law firm, we are closely following the on-going legal disputes stemming from the accident. Monitoring the…