Posts by Crandall & Pera Law, LLC

There’s no doubt about it; big accidents grab our attention. A quick Google search of “crazy cargo spills” nets more than 400,000 hits, while “truck accidents” results in a whopping 48 million results. Video compilations of truck accidents get millions of views, further proof of our fascination with the spectacle of destruction. Cargo spills can…

Not when you hire Crandall & Pera Law. Not only are Marc Pera, and I former defense lawyers, who have literally looked through thousands of medical records once in defense of physicians, but Crandall & Pera Law also hires state-of-the-art forensic document and computer analysts who will look through your medical records, and catch any…

Medical science does some incredible things. We recently heard a story about a new kind of MRI (magnetic resonance imagining) scan that led to a breakthrough for a woman with multiple sclerosis (MS), and helped alleviate some of her symptoms. The MRI was developed by the FONAR Corporation. Unlike a traditional MRI scan, which forces…

All surgeries carry some degree of risk, which is why surgeons train for years to master the delicate art. Cutting into the human body damages tissues, and one misstep can cause irreparable damage. Human surgery is one arena where machines have been unable to outperform humans, simply because of the intricacy and delicacy required. Until…

251,454: that is the number of fatal medical errors committed each year in America. That number comes from a new study published in the BMJ, which finds that only heart disease and cancer are more deadly than doctors in this country. The lead researcher is Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins…

Here at Crandall & Pera Law, we have a love/hate relationship with technology. It is not that we don’t care for change or progress. It’s more that we see so many instances where technology is at the root of serious, injury-inducting mistakes. For every piece of automotive safety equipment that hits the market, there is…

If you have younger children, the chances are good that you have spent some time on the playground – perhaps in a local park, or at your child’s school. And despite the steps taken over the years to ensure a safety environment for the kids (the viciously hot metal slides and concrete pavers beneath the…

On May 11, 2016, a 35-year-old man named Cory Lippmeier left the Horseshoe Casino and got into his Dodge Caliber. While on East I-275, he crashed his car into the back end of a Pontiac Grand Am. He sustained serious injuries; the driver of the Grand Am, Scott E. Petredis, died as a result. Lippmeier…

Dakota Clouse, 24, was convicted of drunken driving in September 2015. Accordingly, his license was revoked, though this apparently was not enough to keep Mr. Clouse off the road. On April 13, Clouse got behind the wheel; while the circumstances of his activity that day remain under investigation, the result stands clear at the Ohio…

Crandall & Pera Law prides itself on giving a voice to the voiceless throughout Ohio and Kentucky. We understand that in order to change the paths for the injured clients we represent, we need to be leaders – not just for ourselves and our clients, but for community as a whole. Founding partner Steve Crandall…