Posts by Crandall & Pera Law, LLC

The recent spate of inclement weather in Maryland was responsible for a slew of highway crashes. The largest accident has been called the worst in Baltimore’s recent history; more than sixty vehicles piled up on the highway after a fuel tanker slid off a bridge and exploded when it struck the roadway below. The massive…

Well what you should know about Erb’s palsy is that it is an injury that occurs, oftentimes in newborns, at the time of delivery. What happens is that when a newborn is coming through the birth canal, at the last moment when the head peaks, unfortunately some children their shoulder will get stuck under the…

Early last year, an Ohio jury awarded Mark Soberay $27 million in damages for injuries he sustained in an accident as a passenger on a Greyhound bus. The accident happened when the bus driver fell asleep and rear-ended a tractor-trailer; Soberay sustained multiple injuries in the wreck, including a severed urethra, injuries requiring an amputation…

Well, one of the things that makes Crandall & Pera Law especially unique is the fact that we have three full time registered nurses on staff. There’s one that works in northern Ohio, one that works in southern Ohio, and one that works out of Kentucky, and these registered nurses are our employees and they…

The last few days of 2016 were a rollercoaster ride for the ages; the year claimed so many prominent public figures that a GoFundMe page was started to protect Betty White for the remainder of the year. The slings and arrows continued to fly right up until the very end, making for a Christmas miracle…

A birth injury case starts with one of the most dreaded things in anyone’s life and that is an injury to a child. But what people don’t realize initially is that injury to the child could actually have happened during the various stages of the pregnancy. So, an evaluation of the prenatal period, which is…

It’s not news; distracted and fatigued driving cause accidents and cost lives. We talk about distracted driving all the time because the evidence is plain; studies have found that texting and driving is just as dangerous as driving under the influence. Now it appears that fatigued driving should join the dynamic duo of distracted and…

When a client comes to me to have a medical negligence case evaluated, the first and most important thing is that they need answers. A lot of times people come for an evaluation and they’ve had a bad result, but they don’t know what happened. The care provider hasn’t told them what happened. So initially,…

In early November, a commercial truck carrying several pallets of fresh sod rolled off state Route 235 in Bethel Township after a tire failure. The driver, who has strong roots in the community, was shaken but not injured. The truck itself rolled over, leading to a considerable traffic jam at the time. Cargo spills get…

The people of Ohio were sold a bill of goods more than 10 years ago, when legislators allowed for “tort reform” – a euphemism for damage caps in civil lawsuits. They told the people that lawyers and juries were out of control, and that placing caps on the amount of damages a person can collect…