Many people suffer serious injuries that are not their fault and immediately bungle an insurance claim or fail to take action in a timely fashion. What follows is general advice that, if followed, will help anyone avoid common mistakes, but it is not legal advice. That can only come from an experienced lawyer who knows […]
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Wrongful Adoption: Fraud by Adoption Agencies
Introduction The first substantial recovery in California against a county adoption agency for its failure to disclose to adopting parents their adopted child’s medical and psychological history occured in Forter v. San Mateo County. This adoption fraud case is not unique. There are many equally tragic cases that await the discovery of mental health professionals […]
Adoption Fraud in California
Alexander Law Group, LLP, LLP has unique experience helping parents and their adopted children in special cases where county social workers have withheld important information which has caused emotional and financial disruption to families. The details of our casework and a special article on adoption fraud can be found on our websites. Under California law […]
Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Fetal Neurotoxicity, Microcephaly and Mental Retardation: In Utero Brain Damage Caused by Toxic Solvent Exposure
Introduction Congenital microcephaly, abnormally small head circumference, is caused by environmental or genetic factors. Genetic causes of microcephaly do their damage through Mendelian patterns of inheritance of a defective or damaged gene or chromosome. Many cases of microcephaly are denominated “idiopathic” because the likely causal factor(s) are not known. Nonetheless the vast majority of the […]
Fetal Brain Damage, Developmental Delays and Intellectual Impairment as a Result of Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyl [PCB] in Pregnancy
Children exposed in utero to low levels of polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs] have suffered long-term brain damage, decreased learning skills, and low I.Q. scores according to a study of 212 eleven year olds whose mothers had elevated concentrations of PCBs as a result of eating Lake Michigan fish contaminated with the chemical. These mothers at birth […]
