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86% Of New York Mental Health Providers Are “Ghost” Providers

February 15, 2024

The New York Attorney General Office issued a report on December 7, 2023 entitled “Inaccurate and inadequate:Health plans’ mental health provider network directories” that stated: “Of the total 396 [mental health] providers called across all plans, callers were offered appointmen[...]

$120M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Stroke Leading To Profound Disability

February 10, 2024

When the wife of a 41-year-old commercial real estate broker heard a thud in their bathroom at 3 a.m. in November 2018, she could not imagine that her husband and the father of their two young children would suffer a misdiagnosed stroke that would lead to him residing in a nursing home the rest of [[...]

$7M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Ophthalmologist For Loss Of Eye

February 4, 2024

On November 29, 2023, a New York Supreme Court Queens County medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $7 million in favor of plaintiffs Peter Wang and his wife, Tien Yun “Joyce” Mei, in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a Queens ophthalmologist. The jury’s compens[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defendants Not Liable For Patient’s Stroke Due To Endocarditis

January 23, 2024

Background Facts In May 2011, Barbara Petillo sought treatment from the defendant Paul Maller, her primary care doctor, for an unexplained fever. After treatment with oral antibiotics failed, Maller ordered a CT scan, among other tests. Based on Petillo’s history of lymphoma and the imaging re[...]

New York Sues Owners/Operators Of Four Nursing Homes For Financial Fraud/Resident Neglect

November 7, 2023

The New York Attorney General announced on June 28, 2023 a lawsuit filed against the owners, operators, and landlords of four nursing homes. The lawsuit alleges years of repeated and persistent fraud and illegally misusing more than $83 million in taxpayer money that resulted in significant resident[...]

New York Appellate Court Won’t Allow Hospital To Hide Email Relevant To Medical Malpractice Claim

November 4, 2023

In its Memorandum and Order entered on July 26, 2023, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held that an email from a doctor to the chief operating officer of a hospital and to six other recipients must be d[...]

New York Physician Charged With Sexually Assaulting Patients In Hospital

October 17, 2023

According to the August 7, 2023 press release from Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng, 33, was arraigned on a 50-count indictment charging him with sexually abusing three patients at New York-Presbyterian Queens hospital and raping three other women in his Queens home. Cheng w[...]

Federal Appellate Court Remands Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit To State Court

September 15, 2023

Court Remands Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held in its Summary Order dated April 13, 2023 that the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act did not completely preempt the plaintiffR[...]

New York Appellate Court Holds Informed Consent Claim Not Proper In Child Birth Malpractice Case

September 4, 2023

Underlying Facts Informed Consent Claim Not Proper In Child Birth Malpractice Case: Plaintiffs are the parents of an infant who died shortly after birth, and they commenced their New York medical malpractice action seeking to recover damages for emotional injuries that they allegedly sustained as a [...]

New York Appellate Court Revives Foreign Object Medical Malpractice Case

August 6, 2023

Court Revives Foreign Object Malpractice Case: The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division Fourth Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) stated in its June 9, 2023 Memorandum and Order: “We agree with plaintiff that the court erred in granting the motion[...]

New York City Medical Malpractice Statistics For Fiscal Year 2022

July 19, 2023

New York City Medical Malpractice Statistics For Fiscal Year 2022: In FY 2022, 12,188 claims and lawsuits against New York City were resolved for $1.5 billion, the highest amount in the City’s history. For the last 10 fiscal years, the City has paid on average approximately $1 billion per fiscal y[...]

New York Lyme Disease Lawsuit

June 21, 2023

A Verified Complaint filed on March 29, 2021 in the Superior Court of the State of New York County of Bronx alleged, in part: On or about May of 2013 infant plaintiff J.B. was under the medical care, diagnoses and treatment of defendants VERONICA SANTILLI, M.D., BELA REYNGOLD, M.D., and GALINA SLOOT[...]

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