New York Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 19 of 20

New York City Medical Malpractice Claim Statistics For Fiscal Year 2011

January 1, 2013

On December 27, 2012, New York City’s Comptroller, John C. Lui, issued the official City of New York Office of the Comptroller Claims Report Fiscal Year 2011 concerning all claims against the City of New York for Fiscal Year 2011 that totalled $550.4 million in payments for settlements and ju[...]

New York Court Of Appeals Says Doctor’s Sex With Patient Was Medical Malpractice

November 30, 2012

On November 29, 2012, the Court of Appeals of New York (New York’s highest appellate court) issued its written memorandum in a case we first blogged about on October 22, 2012 (“Doctor Had An Affair With His Patient: Is It Medical Malpractice?“). The Court of Appeals (“the Co[...]

New York Hospital Agrees To Pay $7 Million Civil Fraud Settlement

October 28, 2012

On October 24, 2012, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that a New York public hospital, Westchester Medical Center (“WMC”), through its parent corporation, has agreed to pay $7 million to settle a federal civil fraud lawsuit filed under the False Claims A[...]

Doctor Had An Affair With His Patient: Is It Medical Malpractice?

October 22, 2012

When a doctor has an affair with his patient, is it considered to be medical malpractice? That is the question that New York’s highest appellate court is being asked to decide in an appeal of a $416,500 medical malpractice verdict against an osteopathic physician. The parties’ appellate[...]

$100 Million New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Injury Due To Premature Birth

August 28, 2012

On August 24, 2012, a Staten Island, New York medical malpractice jury awarded more than $100 million in favor of a now-seventeen-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy due to a brain injury that the jury found was the result of the medical negligence in caring for her mother while she was pregn[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Father’s Death

August 19, 2012

The son of a man who died as a result of alleged medical negligence that occurred in a local New York hospital filed a medical malpractice case in court on August 14, 2012 against the hospital, three of its doctors, and the town in which the hospital is located. The medical malpractice case was file[...]

New York Medical Malpractice $1.3 Million Settlement For Infant

August 10, 2012

A medical malpractice claim against a New York hospital involving a newborn who was allegedly injured during delivery was recently settled out-of-court for $1.3 million after the medical malpractice case was filed. The medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that negligent medical care during the deli[...]

Massive New York Medicaid Drug Fraud Alleged

July 19, 2012

Federal prosecutors have charged 48 people in a massive Medicaid drug fraud scheme that cost taxpayers upwards of $500 million. The fraud allegedly involved Medicaid recipients who were prescribed expensive medications who sold their drugs to third-parties for cash. The third-parties then sold th[...]

Rate Of Bedsores In New York Nursing Homes Much Above National Average

June 26, 2012

New York State ranks a disturbing 44th of all U.S. states in preventing bedsores (also referred to as pressure ulcers) among high-risk nursing home residents despite its highly-touted “War on the Sore” that the New York Department of Health declared six years ago. The rate of painful b[...]

Surgical Fires

April 18, 2012

The last place you would expect to suffer burns from a fire would be while lying on a table in an operating room. But that is just what happened to a New York woman who was undergoing a Cesarean-section delivery of her baby on March 12, 2010. While she was under the influence of local anesthesia w[...]

California Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal

March 19, 2012

A 77-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, who had been married to her 81-year-old husband for 60 years, was admitted into a California nursing home for care so that she could recover from pneumonia. At the time of her admission to the nursing home, it was known that the woman was prone to chronic[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Settlement For Woman Who Lost Both Hands, Both Feet, And One Eye

March 6, 2012

A Brooklyn, New York mother has received a settlement from the city of Brooklyn, New York and from a local Brooklyn hospital and two of its doctors for her severe losses suffered as a result of alleged medical malpractice that cost her her feet, her hands, and her sight in one eye. In September,[...]

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