New York Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 15 of 20

New York Hospital Negligence Lawsuit Alleges Patient Needlessly Lost His Leg

July 16, 2016

A New York medical negligence lawsuit that was recently filed in the federal court in Brooklyn against a local hospital alleges that a series of unnecessary and unreasonable delays in treating a man who arrived in the emergency department after having been struck by a car and suffering a serious leg[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Win

July 15, 2016

In its opinion filed on June 30, 2016, the New York Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) reversed a New York medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff, finding that the trial judge had erroneously admitted evidence concerning the defendant’s negligent tre[...]

Two Doctors Sentenced To Prison On Same Day In Different States For Taking Kickbacks

July 6, 2016

Two doctors, one from New York and one from New Jersey, were sentenced to prison on June 8, 2016 in two separate criminal cases for taking illegal kickbacks (i.e., bribes) for referring their patients for medical services to medical companies that paid them kickbacks. The New York family practice ph[...]

$4.65M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Veterinarian

July 1, 2016

On June 21, 2016, a New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $4.65 million against a primary care physician, a gastroenterologist, and the defendant hospital for the death of a 63-year-old veterinarian who died because of the defendants’ failure to timely and pro[...]

New York City Hospitals Settled 221 Medical Malpractice Cases For $124M In 2015

March 30, 2016

New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (“HHC”) reportedly settled 221 medical malpractice lawsuits in 2015 for a total of $124 million in payouts, which was down from $133 million that was paid out in 2014 to settle medical malpractice claims. However, the total number of new med[...]

$1.52M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Bowel Injury During Hysterectomy

March 11, 2016

On March 2, 2016, a New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the 51-year-old plaintiff who suffered a bowel injury during her hysterectomy procedure in 2011 that was not discovered or treated by the defendant surgeon at the time of the surgery. As a result, the woman develo[...]

$11.6M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologist For Misread CT Scan

March 2, 2016

A New York medical malpractice jury awarded a local business man $11.6 million in damages as a result of a radiologist’s medical negligence in failing to properly read and report the results of the plaintiff’s CT scan of his brain that evidently showed that a major blood vessel that sup[...]

$5.1M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hepatitis C Acquired During Routine Colonoscopy

February 20, 2016

A New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5.1 million in favor of the plaintiff, who alleged in her New York medical malpractice lawsuit that the defendant physicians’ negligence caused her to become infected with Hepatitis C during a routine colonoscopy that t[...]

New York Nursing Home Owners Plead Guilty To Abuse And Neglect Cover-Up

January 11, 2016

The New York Attorney General announced on January 4, 2016 that the corporate owner of a New York nursing home pleaded guilty on January 4, 2016 to falsifying business records to resolve a 45-count indictment that alleged crimes arising from the suppression of two incidents of patient abuse and neg[...]

Two New York Hospitals Sued After Patient Dies – Twice

October 17, 2015

A 46-year-old man suffered an apparent heart attack while in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, in October 2014. A bystander performed CPR on the man until an ambulance arrived and took the man to the hospital. Within minutes after arriving at the hospital, the man was declared dead. When the man[...]

New York Court Of Appeals Discusses What Is A “Foreign Object” In Medical Malpractice Claims

August 10, 2015

In a recent case, the New York Court of Appeals (New York’s highest court) discussed the New York statute of limitations in medical malpractice claims that allege injuries due to foreign objects left in patients. In particular, the Court of Appeals discussed what is a “foreign object&[...]

New York Legislature Considers Date Of Discovery Rule In Medical Malpractice Cases

June 15, 2015

New York is one of the few U.S. states where the medical malpractice statute of limitations begins to run from the date of the alleged negligent act or omission rather than from the date that the patient discovered the medical malpractice or a reasonable person should have discovered the medica[...]

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