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$15M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Glaucoma Leading To Blindness

October 18, 2018

A New York medical malpractice jury determined on Thursday, September 27, 2018, after a three-week trial, that the defendant hospital was liable to the plaintiff for medical negligence in the failure to timely and appropriately diagnose and treat a young woman’s glaucoma while she was pregnant[...]

New York Appellate Court Applies Continuous Treatment Doctrine In Allowing Medical Malpractice Claim

March 2, 2018

The State of New York Court of Appeals (“New York Appellate Court”), which is New York’s highest appellate court, applied the continuous treatment doctrine to a New York medical malpractice claim in its decision filed on February 18, 2018, thereby holding that summary judgment was [...]

New York Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit For Fatal Resident On Resident Attack

March 17, 2017

The family of an 82-year-old female nursing home resident who inadvertently wandered into the room of an 84-year-old male resident who had dementia filed a lawsuit against the nursing home on March 3, 2017, alleging that the defendant nursing home failed to prevent the man from violently attacking t[...]

New York Appellate Court Applies Continuous Treatment Doctrine, Reinstates Medical Malpractice Claim

February 15, 2017

On February 7, 2017, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division First Department (“Appellate Court”) reinstated a New York medical malpractice case that had been dismissed by the trial court, by applying the continuous treatment doctrine and thereby finding that the plaintiff served [...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

$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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