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- Which States Are The Most Dangerous To Give Birth In?
Aug 10, 2026
By Harden Crichton, P.C. | Philadelphia Birth Injury and Medical Malpractice Attorneys If you are pregnant or planning to grow your family, one of the most unsettling facts about American healthcare is that where you live can change your odds of surviving childbirth. Maternal mortality in the United States is not spread evenly across the map. New federal data shows that a mother in one state can face nearly four times the risk of...Read More - 5 Ways to Protect Yourself After a Car Accident in Pennsylvania
Jul 31, 2026
By the Team at Harden Crichton, P.C., Philadelphia Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers One minute you are driving home on I-95, and the next you are sitting on the shoulder with your heart pounding, unsure of what just happened. A car accident can turn an ordinary day upside down in seconds, and knowing what to do after a car accident in Pennsylvania can feel impossible when you are shaken and scared. The good...Read More - How to Choose the Right Philadelphia Car Accident Lawyer in 2026
Jul 9, 2026
By the Team at Harden Crichton, P.C , Philadelphia Car Accident Lawyers A serious crash can change everything in a matter of seconds. One moment a family is heading home on the Schuylkill Expressway, and the next they are facing hospital bills, a totaled car, and an insurance adjuster who keeps calling. In those first stressful weeks, the Philadelphia car accident lawyer a person chooses can shape how the entire case turns out. Insurance...Read More - Juneteenth Reflection: How Pennsylvania's Civil Rights and Wrongful Conviction Cases Continue the Fight for Equal Justice
Jun 19, 2026
Harden Crichton, P.C. | Philadelphia Civil Rights Attorney | Pennsylvania Wrongful Conviction Lawyer Juneteenth marks the moment in 1865 when the last enslaved Americans in Texas finally received word of their freedom. More than 160 years later, the struggle for equal justice in Pennsylvania remains unfinished. Across Philadelphia, Delaware County, and communities like Chester, Upper Darby, and Cheltenham, people continue to face civil rights violations, wrongful convictions, and systemic failures that strip them of...Read More - Father's Day After a Wrongful Death: How Harden Crichton, P.C. Helps Surviving Children and Spouses Pursue Justice Under Pennsylvania's Wrongful Death and Survival Acts
Jun 15, 2026
Harden Crichton, P.C. | Philadelphia Wrongful Death Attorney Father's Day is supposed to be a celebration, but for families who lost a father, husband, or provider to someone else's negligence, this Sunday carries a weight that no greeting card can address. In Pennsylvania, wrongful death is a legal concept that recognizes what surviving families already know: losing someone due to another party's carelessness does not just take a life. It takes a future, an...Read More - Philadelphia's Own Oversight Commission Just Documented the Gaps in Police Accountability. Here’s What That Means for Civil Rights Plaintiffs
May 22, 2026
By Harden Crichton, P.C. | Philadelphia Civil Rights and Police Misconduct Attorneys Philadelphia has a Citizens Police Oversight Commission (CPOC). It releases audits, makes recommendations, holds public meetings, and publishes reports. In the first months of 2026 alone, CPOC released findings on Internal Affairs investigations, body-worn camera compliance in multiple police districts, and police academy training. On paper, that is a functioning accountability system. In practice, the picture is more complicated. And for someone...Read More - Vision Zero at Ten Years: Why Are Philadelphia Pedestrians Still Dying at Disproportionate Rates in 2026?
May 20, 2026
By Harden Crichton, P.C. | Philadelphia Pedestrian Accident Attorneys Losing a family member to a pedestrian crash, or surviving one yourself, is a kind of grief that does not fade on a schedule. The phone call comes, the world stops, and you are forced to think about hospitals, police reports, and insurance adjusters while you are still trying to understand what happened. Many Philadelphia families have been pulled into that exact moment in 2026...Read More - One Dead, Two Still Missing After Grays Ferry Parking Garage Collapse. Here's What Families Need to Know.
Apr 10, 2026
By Harden Crichton, P.C. | Construction Accidents | Philadelphia, PA Just after 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, a parking garage collapsed in the Grays Ferry section of South Philadelphia. The under construction seven-story parking garage partially gave way, floor by floor, in what Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker described as a "progressive collapse of connected sections across all seven levels." Three workers were rescued when emergency service crews arrived. One worker was pronounced dead...Read More - Personal Injury Lawsuits: When Accountability Begins After The Worst Day Of Someone's Life
Mar 19, 2026
Nobody wakes up expecting it to be that day. Not on the drive up I-95 through Chester. Not crossing the intersection on Baltimore Avenue in Yeadon. Not stepping off the curb outside a shop in Upper Darby. Not walking to the car after a late shift. But for thousands of families across Philadelphia, Delaware County, and Montgomery County every single year, that day comes anyway without warning, without mercy, and without a clear road map...Read More - Wrongful Death Lawsuits: When Negligence Turns A Preventable Tragedy Into A Legal Reckoning
Feb 19, 2026
By Harden Crichton, P.C. | Wrongful Death | Philadelphia, PA There is a specific kind of grief that comes with knowing it did not have to happen. Not the grief of illness. Not the grief of age. The grief of a phone call that starts with the words there has been an accident, and ends with the understanding that someone's carelessness, someone's recklessness, someone's failure to do what they were supposed to do took a...Read More