By Christopher Baxter Statehouse Bureau TRENTON — An Assembly panel today advanced legislation that would allow New Jersey residents with diabetes to voluntarily note the condition on their driver’s licenses in case they end up in an emergency situation and are unable to communicate their needs to police. The bill (A945), approved 9-1 by the [...]

Layser & Freiwald was a Silver Sponser for the 9th Annual Raise a Glass for the Cure sponsored by the Buoniciotti Fund for Spinal Cord Research.  Mr. Layser previously represented Frank LaMacchia for the accident which caused his paralysis approximately 14 years ago. Mr. LaMacchia is now a member of the Board of Magee Rehabilitation [...]

The Pennsylvania Record by John Campisi A Philadelphia woman who claims she suffered multiple injuries after falling at a city nursing home on two separate occasions due to alleged company negligence has filed suit against the facility in state court. Philadelphia attorney Derek R. Layser, of the firm Layser & Freiwald P.C., filed the professional [...]

By Christopher Baxter Statehouse Bureau The Star-Ledger Several New Jersey lawmakers, including the Assembly speaker, said they will investigate how State Police troopers and other police officers are trained to recognize and handle victims of diabetic shock and how to improve their instruction. The expressions of concerns were prompted by an article in the Sunday [...]

Ronnie Polaneczky, Daily News Columnist Philadelphia Daily News ON THE NIGHT of Nov. 20, 2010, Dan Fried, a diabetic since childhood, experienced two miracles and one travesty. The first act of God occurred when, overcome by diabetic shock while driving home from the Jersey Shore, Fried somehow knew to pull onto the shoulder of Route [...]

by Christopher Baxter Statehouse Bureau One November night two years ago, State Police found Daniel Fried slumped behind the wheel of his van along Route 72 in Burlington County. He stared forward, eyelids drooping. He was incoherent, slurred his words and seemed to be falling asleep. He may have looked drunk or like he was [...]

By Daniel Rubin Inquirer Columnist ‘Our Town’ has roots in Moorestown Officer Paul Zenak’s trouble with the brass started a year ago, he says, when he was coordinating the Police Athletic League of Philadelphia’s center in Wissinoming. The basement was undergoing renovation, and the officer didn’t like the look of some mold on the pipes [...]

Layser & Freiwald, P.C. is proud to announce that Derek R. Layser has recently been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, 19th Edition.  The selection for Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer review survey compromising nearly 4 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country.  No [...]

BY WILLIAM BENDER Daily News Staff Writer David Crockett is suing SEPTA because of injuries that occurred, according to his lawsuit, when a trapdoor on a regional-rail train smashed his foot. DAVID CROCKETT had been driving from Overbrook to work in Trenton two summers ago when he decided to cut the cost of his daily [...]

The Pennsylvania Record by Jon Campisi A New Jersey woman who claims she developed complications at the site of an intravenous line on her forearm while she was undergoing a kidney transplant at a Philadelphia hospital, an injury that required a second surgery, has filed a malpractice claim against the medical institution. Philadelphia attorney Derek [...]