New York Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 16 of 20

New York Medical Malpractice Insurer Allegedly Paid Over $100K To Indicted Senator’s No-Show Son

June 6, 2015

In an Indictment filed on May 28, 2015 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York State Senate Majority Leader/President Pro Tem of the New York Senate (up until three weeks ago, that is), and his son, it is alleged that the defendants engaged i[...]

$430,000 New York Dental Malpractice Verdict Set Aside On Appeal

May 19, 2015

By its decision rendered on May 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department (“Appellate Court”) reversed a jury’s verdict in the amount of $430,000 in favor of a dental patient in a New York dental malpractice case, finding tha[...]

New York Supreme Court: Dueling Expert Opinions In Medical Malpractice Case Precludes Summary Judgment

March 14, 2015

In a February 11, 2015 Decision and Order of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Clinton County (“Court”), the Court held that summary judgment is not appropriate in a medical malpractice action where there exist conflicting medical expert opinions because credibility issues[...]

New York Governor Wants To Eliminate Free Consumer Website Listing Physicians Medical Malpractice Histories

February 20, 2015

The Governor of New York stated his intention to eliminate the free consumer website that lists the medical malpractice histories of New York physicians, in his recent $142 billion proposed budget. The free website, which costs the state about $1.2 million per year to operate, was created as a res[...]

17 Former Nursing Home Workers Sentenced After Guilty Pleas Arising Out Of Nursing Home Neglect

February 12, 2015

The last of 17 former Buffalo, New York nursing home workers have been sentenced after pleading guilty to charges arising out of the neglect of a 56-year-old resident who was totally dependent on their care. The felony charges against them were reduced to misdemeanor charges and only one former nurs[...]

New York Surgeon Sued For Medical Malpractice For The 12th Time Since 1996

December 6, 2014

On October 22, 2014, a New York medical malpractice lawyer filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against an upstate New York surgeon. The lawsuit was the second medical malpractice case filed against the same surgeon in 2014. There are at least three other New York medical malpractice cases presently [...]

New York Appellate Court Sets Standard For Bringing Legal Malpractice Claim After Unsuccessful Medical Malpractice Claim

October 27, 2014

In its October 21, 2014 decision, the Court of Appeals State of New York (“Court of Appeals”), New York’s highest appellate court, ruled that prior to commencing a legal malpractice action, a party who is “likely to succeed” on appeal of the underlying medical malpract[...]

Does New York Allow Negligent Physicians To Practice Without Discipline?

October 7, 2014

In a report published in May 2014 by the New York Public Interest Research Group Fund (“NYPIRG,” a nonpartisan, not-for-profit whose mission is to affect policy reforms while training New Yorkers to be citizen advocates) entitled “Questionable Doctors[:] Negligent Doctors And T[...]

$2.3M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Untreated Infection

August 7, 2014

A Rockland County, New York medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of a 52-year-old man who alleged that his untreated infection left him with a permanent and painful hip condition. After a three-week trial that ended on July 31, 2014, the medical malpractice jury held the head of the[...]

New York Nursing Home Sued For Resident’s Death; Employees Indicted

July 23, 2014

The children of a 72-year-old woman who was a short-term resident of a New York nursing home where she was supposed to be receiving rehabilitation services but died on October 26, 2012 from a heart attack because the nursing home staff allegedly had failed to have her on a ventilator at night, as or[...]

Ex-Wife’s Share Of Husband’s New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Reduced

July 19, 2014

A New York Supreme Court judge has told the ex-wife of a man who had successfully sued for medical malpractice in New York that her jury award in the amount of $1 million was excessive and that she would have to endure a new trial to determine her damages for loss of services from her […][...]

$2.3M Liposuction Malpractice Settlement

June 6, 2014

A New York plastic surgeon has reached a settlement with the surviving spouse and children of a 32-year-old woman who had undergone a liposuction procedure in the Manhattan plastic surgeon’s office that allegedly resulted in her death. Two days after the June 25, 2009 liposuction procedure, th[...]

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