New York Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 14 of 20

New York Appellate Court Orders Summary Judgment For Defendant Oral Surgeon

May 8, 2017

The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in a dental malpractice case it decided on April 20, 2017 that a plaintiff cannot defeat a summary judgment motion that made out a prima facie case by merely asserting, without more, a new [...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Prove Vision Impairment From Cardiac Perforation During Catheterization

April 22, 2017

In its March 28, 2017 Decision and Order, the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the order of the New York Supreme Court, New York County that dismissed the New York medical malpractice plaintiff’s complaint. The New York medica[...]

$2.5M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Intestinal Perforation During EDG

April 3, 2017

On March 7, 2017, a New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a 57-year-old woman in the amount of $2.5 million ($1.5 million for past pain and suffering and an additional $1 million for future pain and suffering) against the defendant gastroenterologist for the intestinal p[...]

New York Supreme Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants In Episiotomy Case

March 23, 2017

On March 7, 2017, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department (“Appellate Court”) affirmed summary judgment entered in favor of the New York medical malpractice defendants, finding that the New York medical malpractice plaintiffs had failed to meet their burden of pr[...]

New York Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit For Fatal Resident On Resident Attack

March 17, 2017

The family of an 82-year-old female nursing home resident who inadvertently wandered into the room of an 84-year-old male resident who had dementia filed a lawsuit against the nursing home on March 3, 2017, alleging that the defendant nursing home failed to prevent the man from violently attacking t[...]

New York Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit For Suicide Death

March 2, 2017

The New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division Third Judicial Department (“Appellate Court”) issued a decision on February 23, 2017 in which it held that the trial court had erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant hospital attending physician and the defendant outpatient[...]

New York Appellate Court Applies Continuous Treatment Doctrine, Reinstates Medical Malpractice Claim

February 15, 2017

On February 7, 2017, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division First Department (“Appellate Court”) reinstated a New York medical malpractice case that had been dismissed by the trial court, by applying the continuous treatment doctrine and thereby finding that the plaintiff served [...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Judgment

January 26, 2017

In its decision filed on January 12, 2017, the New York Appellate Division, First Department (“Appellate Court”) decided that the New York medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert’s affidavit raised a material issue of fact as to whether the defendant physician and defendant ho[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms $6M Medical Malpractice Verdict

December 21, 2016

On December 8, 2016, the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, First Department (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the February 18, 2015 judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff who required a surgical amputation following a crush injury to his leg from being hit by a car. The New Y[...]

New York Neurosurgeon Hit With Three More Medical Malpractice Cases

November 5, 2016

A New York neurosurgeon who specializes in surgery to correct Chiari malformations was recently sued by three of his former patients for medical malpractice, adding to the more than twenty times he has been sued for medical malpractice over the course of his professional career. All three of the m[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Discusses Effect Of Medical Malpractice Settlement On Subsequent Defendants

September 15, 2016

In its decision filed on August 31, 2016, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“Appellate Court”) was faced with the issue whether the New Jersey medical malpractice defendants were entitled to a pro tanto credit for the amount that the plaintiffs had obtained by way of [...]

Oklahoma Nursing Home Sued For Alleged Sexual Assault On Resident

July 26, 2016

On July 20, 2016, a former resident of an Oklahoma nursing home filed a lawsuit against the nursing home seeking monetary damages for sexual assault that she suffered at the hands of its former employee. The plaintiff is one of four nursing home residents who were allegedly sexually assaulted by the[...]

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