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New York Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Radiologist And MRI Full Body Scan Company For Alleged Missed Findings Leading To Stroke

December 3, 2024

A medical malpractice complaint was filed on September 24, 2024 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York County of New York that alleges, in part: Prenuvo MRI scan failed to document that on July 15, 2023, the Prenuvo MRA sequence shows abrupt focal 60% narrowing and irregularity of the proxima[...]

$35.6M New York Medical Malpractice Pre-Verdict Settlement

October 18, 2024

On October 8, 2024, a New York medical malpractice case was settled for $35.6 million during the fifth day of trial for a 15-year-old who suffered permanent brain damage due to the alleged medical negligence of the hospital where he was treated (not treated) following a scooter accident. The teenage[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Referring Physicians In Medical Malpractice Case

September 18, 2024

After plaintiff presented at an emergency department complaining of severe abdominal pain, defendant Richard D. Bloomberg, M.D., the on-call surgeon, performed an exploratory laparotomy, which revealed the presence of a large mass in plaintiff’s stomach. During the surgery, Bloomberg consulted wit[...]

New York Appellate Court Reinstates Tick Bite Medical Malpractice Case

September 8, 2024

Plaintiffs, as the administrators of decedent’s estate, commenced their New York medical malpractice action against defendant Ellis Hospital, an urgent care, and a physician assistant, the physician assistant’s supervising physician, and another physician, alleging that they failed to ti[...]

New York Appellate Court Rules Employer Not Responsible For Alleged Negligence Of RN For Cosmetic Procedure In Private Home

July 29, 2024

In October 2018, the defendant Inna Gordon, a registered nurse, performed a cosmetic procedure on the plaintiff’s chin at Gordon’s private home. The plaintiff subsequently developed cellulitis on her chin where the procedure was performed, which led to scarring. Thereafter, the plaintiff filed a[...]

New York Appellate Court Finds Trial Judge Erred In Setting Aside $10M Medical Malpractice Suicide Verdict On Issue Of Proximate Cause

July 9, 2024

A New York medical malpractice plaintiff filed an action against the defendant physician, Theodore Strange, to recover damages for medical malpractice and wrongful death related to the death of Richard Shouldis by suicide. Strange treated the decedent in the days and weeks before the decedent’s de[...]

New York Appellate Court Holds Claim That IVF Storage Tanks Were Not Properly Maintained Is Ordinary Negligence Claim

June 30, 2024

In a case of first impression, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department (“New York appellate court”) stated in its reported opinion entered on April 18, 2024: “The underlying parts of the IVF process implicate both medical malpractice and ordinary n[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Partial Summary Judgment For Patient Who Lost Eye From Infection After Cataract Surgery

June 29, 2024

Plaintiff, in her capacity as power of attorney for Sally Keller (decedent), commenced a medical malpractice action against a New York nursing home seeking to recover damages for injuries sustained by decedent, who was a resident at defendant Waterfront Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare (Wate[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

May 3, 2024

On July 27, 2015, Giovanni Angieri underwent a hernia surgery performed by Angelo John Procaccino, with the assistance of an anesthesiologist, Shimon Frankel, at the defendant Northwell Health-North Shore University Hospital. Subsequently, Giovanni, and his wife, Barbara Angieri, filed a New York me[...]

$6.1M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Inmate’s Death Due To Botched Heart Surgery

April 21, 2024

On February 6, 2024, a Bronx medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $6.1 million for the family of a man who was incarcerated at Rikers Island in 2017 at which time he became the victim of a botched heart surgery that led to his death two days after he was sent […][...]

New York Appellate Court Denies Summary Judgment To Medical Malpractice Defendants Who May Have Improperly Transferred Patient To Hospice Care

March 28, 2024

The New York medical malpractice plaintiff alleged that the defendant emergency room physician was negilgent in referring him to hospice care where he remained for over 18 months when he did not require such care. The trial court denied defendants St. Barnabas Hospital, Quarry Road Emergency Service[...]

$7M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Rehabilitation Facility Doctor

March 12, 2024

In mid-December 2023, a New York medical malpractice jury awarded the estate of a woman $5 million and her husband $2 million against her rehabilitation attending physician who was treating her after surgery on her left leg in 2014. The 2014 surgery was necessary to treat the woman’s left femu[...]

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