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New York Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Defendants Entitled To Summary Judgment On Lack Of Informed Consent Claim

April 22, 2026

Background Facts In 2005, due to a history of pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis, John J. Young (decedent) was prescribed Coumadin by his primary care physician. On November 19, 2013, the decedent presented to the defendant South Bay Cardiovascular (South Bay), complaining of chest pain. Te[...]

New York Appellate Court Rules Trial Court Should Have Set Aside Medical Malpractice Verdict For The Plaintiff

December 13, 2021

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) stated in its Decision & Order dated October 6, 2021 in a New York medical malpractice case where the jury awarded the plaintiff $250,000 for pain and suffering and [...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defendant Not Entitled To Summary Judgment Where Plaintiff Suffered Blindness

August 20, 2019

The New York Appellate Division, First Department (“New York Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on July 30, 2019, affirmed the trial court’s denial of summary judgment to the defendant, stating “The motion court correctly denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the ma[...]

New York Diet Pill Lawsuit

January 18, 2014

On January 6, 2014, an Army reservist in New York filed a lawsuit in the Kings County Supreme Court against a health food business alleging that she was injured as a result of using the diet pills she purchased from the business that led to her inpatient treatment at a mental hospital. Her[...]

New York Hospital Sued For Hepatitis Allegedly Caused By Reusing Insulin Pens

March 7, 2013

An upstate New York hospital has been sued for medical malpractice by three patients who claim they contracted hepatitis when hospital employees reused insulin pens (pen-shaped injector devices that contain a reservoir for insulin or an insulin cartridge) on different patients that were designed fo[...]

New York $4 Million Medical Malpractice Settlement For Birth Injuries

March 2, 2013

Last month it was announced that a New York medical malpractice case that had been filed in the Westchester County Supreme Court against the Westchester Medical Center had been settled for $4,098,273.00, for an infant who suffered severe spastic quadriplegia with severe microcephaly and profo[...]

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[...]

$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[...]

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[...]

$120 Million New York Medical Malpractice Verdict

May 29, 2012

On May 25, 2012, a Bronx, New York medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of approximately $120 million against three local hospitals and a neurologist (the jury found one hospital to be 50% liable, another hospital to be 40% liable, the third hospital to[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Claims And Complaints

October 13, 2011

The New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct (“Board”) was created in 1976 to administer New York’s physician discipline program. The Board’s stated mission is to protect the public from medical negligence, incompetence and other kinds of professional misconduct.[...]

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