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New York Medical Malpractice Arbitrator Awards $140M Settlement To 255 Medical Malpractice Victims

February 23, 2019

A New York medical malpractice arbitrator has issued a $140 million settlement award to 255 New York medical malpractice victims of former New York orthopedist Spyros Panos. After the arbitrator’s award is approved by the court, the awards to individual New York medical malpractice plaintiffs [...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Physician Assistant In Failure To Diagnose Stroke Medical Malpractice Case

January 28, 2019

In its December 21, 2019 Memorandum And Order, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Circuit (“New York Appellate Court”) reversed summary judgment granted in favor of the defendant physician assistant (“PA”) and the other defendants, [...]

New York Appellate Court Disallows Use Of Plaintiff’s Facebook Pages During Medical Malpractice Trial

May 15, 2017

In its opinion filed on April 26, 2017, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held that the New York medical malpractice defendants would not be allowed to offer as evidence printouts of what they purported [...]

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 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[...]

$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[...]

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[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Undiagnosed Aneurysm

February 22, 2012

When a 49-year-old man walked into a New York hospital’s emergency room in November, 2007, he complained to the emergency room physician of classic signs of an aortic aneurysm (an aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in an artery caused by certain medical conditions, genetic conditions, or traum[...]

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