New York Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 17 of 20

17 New York Nursing Home Employees Criminally Charged With Neglect

April 29, 2014

The New York Attorney General announced last week that 17 employees of a Buffalo, New York nursing home (eight nurses and nine certified nursing assistants) have been charged with falsifying business records in the first degree (a class E felony), endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physi[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Reduction Of Medical Malpractice Jury Award

April 23, 2014

By its decision dated April 10, 2014, the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department (Bronx County, New York) affirmed the trial court’s reduction of the medical malpractice jury verdict that awarded the plaintiffs $300,000 for past pain and suffering and $4,200,000 for future pain[...]

$4M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Four Years Of Misdiagnosis And Unnecessary Treatment

April 19, 2014

For four years, a 42-year-old New York man underwent biweekly blood treatments, had chest surgery to remove his thymus gland, and gained 80 pounds and became hypertensive due to medication that he took for a diagnosed neuromuscular disorder (myasthenia gravis) that he did not have. He endured 74 un[...]

NY Nursing Home Hidden Camera Results In Criminal Charges Against 10

March 27, 2014

A loving son who was concerned that his father was being harmed in a New York nursing home took the bold step of placing a concealed camera in his father’s nursing home room to monitor and document the care (or lack of care) his father was receiving. The recordings from the hidden camera [...]

Former New York Surgeon Sentenced To 4.5 Years In Federal Prison

March 22, 2014

A former New York orthopedic surgeon who admitted to defrauding the U.S. government and health insurance providers in a scheme that ran from 2007 and 2011, during which the surgeon and his medical practice filed claims in excess of $35 million that resulted in $13 million in payments, was sentence[...]

$9.1M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Leg Amputation After Broken Ankle

February 28, 2014

Earlier this month, a New York State Supreme Court medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff in the amount of $9.1 million, which included $2.8 million for economic losses (past and future medical expenses and lost wages), $6 million for noneconomic d[...]

VA Medical Malpractice Claim For Failure To Advise Patient Of Melanoma Diagnosis

January 24, 2014

A federal medical malpractice lawsuit involving the Bath VA Medical Center in New York was filed on January 8, 2014 on behalf of a 70-year-old man whose malignant melanoma was diagnosed after a biopsy of a skin lesion but he was not advised of the diagnosis of melanoma until two years later. Th[...]

New York Diet Pill Lawsuit

January 18, 2014

On January 6, 2014, an Army reservist in New York filed a lawsuit in the Kings County Supreme Court against a health food business alleging that she was injured as a result of using the diet pills she purchased from the business that led to her inpatient treatment at a mental hospital. Her[...]

$3.1M Erb’s Palsy Birth Injury Verdict Upheld

January 5, 2014

A New York appellate court has upheld a $3,150,000 verdict against an obstetrician-gynecologist involving the negligent delivery of a newborn that led to the baby suffering a brachial plexus injury that resulted in Erb’s palsy. The baby’s shoulder got stuck in her mother’s pubic [...]

New York Medical Malpractice Victim Alleges Minor Surgery Almost Cost Her Her Life

December 10, 2013

In a New York medical malpractice case that has been in trial for over a month, the now 33-year-old plaintiff alleges that in the fall of 2009, the surgeon who performed her laparoscopic procedure for an ectopic pregnancy in a Long Island, New York hospital was negligent by perforating her colon dur[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Overturned Due To Defense Stalking

December 5, 2013

On November 18, 2013, the Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Onondaga (“New York Supreme Court”) overturned a defense verdict and granted a new trial in a New York medical malpractice case after the trial judge spoke with jurors following their verdict and after the con[...]

New York Supreme Court Holds Pharmacist Not Liable For Filling Prescription Precisely As Directed

October 27, 2013

In a case decided by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department (“New York Supreme Court”) on October 4, 2013, the New York Supreme Court held that a pharmacist cannot be held liable for negligence in the absence of an allegation that he o[...]

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