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New York Appellate Court Orders New Trial Because Medical Malpractice Jury Erroneously Given Error In Judgment Charge

July 22, 2026

Plaintiffs commenced their New York medical malpractice action seeking damages for injuries sustained by Eric C. Burns (plaintiff) as the result of the alleged malpractice of defendant Voytek W. Sobieraj, M.D. At trial, plaintiffs’ expert testified that Sobieraj deviated from medically acceptable [...]

New York Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case Based On Negligent AMA Discharge

May 23, 2026

Plaintiff sought damages for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s decedent following decedent’s discharge against medical advice from the hospital operated by defendant Erie County Medical Center Corporation (defendant). Plaintiff appealed from an order granting defendant’s motion for summary jud[...]

New York Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Defendants Entitled To Summary Judgment On Lack Of Informed Consent Claim

April 22, 2026

Background Facts In 2005, due to a history of pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis, John J. Young (decedent) was prescribed Coumadin by his primary care physician. On November 19, 2013, the decedent presented to the defendant South Bay Cardiovascular (South Bay), complaining of chest pain. Te[...]

$2M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Gender-Affirming Surgery Involving A Minor

April 17, 2026

A New York State medical malpractice jury awarded $2 million on January 29, 2026 to a person who was 16 years old when she underwent gender-affirming surgery in 2019 (a double mastectomy that she alleged had left her disfigured), against her psychologist and the plastic surgeon who performed the sur[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defendants Not Entitled To Summary Judgment

April 14, 2026

In the early morning of January 15, 2017, plaintiff was admitted to defendant Adirondack Medical Center (“AMC”) in active labor. There, less than two hours later, she gave birth to a healthy infant without the use of pain medications or the need for other interventions. Approximately two[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Defendants In Stroke Malpractice Case

April 4, 2026

The plaintiff filed a New York medical malpractice action on behalf of the decedent seeking damages for his wrongful death and conscious pain and suffering allegedly caused by defendants’ delay in detecting and properly treating decedent’s stroke following his admission to defendant St. Elizabet[...]

New York Pediatric SNF Pays $1.3M To Resolve Neglect Claims

April 3, 2026

On February 12, 2026, the New York Attorney General announced a $1.3 million settlement with the Center for Disability Services Holding Corporation d/b/a St. Margaret’s Center (“St. Margaret’s), a not-for-profit pediatric skilled nursing facility in Albany, after an investigation r[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses MOLST Verdict

February 26, 2026

Plaintiff commenced a medical malpractice action arising from an incident in which defendant’s employees performed chest compressions on plaintiff’s decedent after he became unresponsive shortly after he presented to the emergency department of defendant’s hospital with complaints of abdominal[...]

New York Appellate Court Grants Summary Judgment To Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Defendants

February 16, 2026

The infant plaintiff and his mother, Shanique B. (plaintiff), filed a New York medical malpractice and negligence actionseeking damages for injuries that the infant plaintiff sustained after plaintiff suffered a placental abruption and underwent an emergency Cesarean section. Plaintiffs alleged that[...]

New York Court Finds Choice-Of-Law Provision Did Not Apply To Medical Malpractice Claim

February 13, 2026

On July 19, 2023, William A. Weiner, M.D., while working for Prenuvo New York City Cancer & Screening, misinterpreted a full-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan taken of the plaintiff at a New York Prenuvo location on July 15, 2023. Specifically, the plaintiffs asserted that Weiner’s in[...]

New York Appellate Court Holds Nursing Home Not Entitled To Covid-19 Immunity

February 6, 2026

Plaintiff, as Administratrix of the estate of the decedent, alleged that on April 9, 2020, decedent was infected with Covid-19 and developed distress and hypoxia, which resulted in her death almost a year later. Plaintiff alleged that defendant’s nursing home facility was negligent and grossly[...]

$3M Upstate New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Perirectal Abscess In ER

December 16, 2025

An upstate New York medical malpractice jury awarded a 49-year-old woman $3 million ($1 million for past pain and suffering and $2 million for future pain and suffering) on October 10, 2025 in her medical malpractice case against a hospital for the alleged failure to diagnose an abscess when she wen[...]

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