New York medical malpractice lawyers Archives

New York Appellate Court Orders New Trial Because Medical Malpractice Jury Erroneously Given Error In Judgment Charge

July 22, 2026

Plaintiffs commenced their New York medical malpractice action seeking damages for injuries sustained by Eric C. Burns (plaintiff) as the result of the alleged malpractice of defendant Voytek W. Sobieraj, M.D. At trial, plaintiffs’ expert testified that Sobieraj deviated from medically acceptable [...]

New York Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case Based On Negligent AMA Discharge

May 23, 2026

Plaintiff sought damages for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s decedent following decedent’s discharge against medical advice from the hospital operated by defendant Erie County Medical Center Corporation (defendant). Plaintiff appealed from an order granting defendant’s motion for summary jud[...]

New York Court Finds Choice-Of-Law Provision Did Not Apply To Medical Malpractice Claim

February 13, 2026

On July 19, 2023, William A. Weiner, M.D., while working for Prenuvo New York City Cancer & Screening, misinterpreted a full-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan taken of the plaintiff at a New York Prenuvo location on July 15, 2023. Specifically, the plaintiffs asserted that Weiner’s in[...]

$3M Upstate New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Perirectal Abscess In ER

December 16, 2025

An upstate New York medical malpractice jury awarded a 49-year-old woman $3 million ($1 million for past pain and suffering and $2 million for future pain and suffering) on October 10, 2025 in her medical malpractice case against a hospital for the alleged failure to diagnose an abscess when she wen[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Denial Of Summary Judgment For Urgent Care Medical Malpractice Defendants

August 3, 2025

Plaintiffs filed their New York medical malpractice action seeking damages for injuries that Donald Scott (plaintiff) allegedly sustained as a result of the failure of the defendants, Theresa Mellas, P.A. and MedFirst Urgent Care, PLLC, doing business as MASH Urgent Care (MASH Urgent Care), to timel[...]

$5.6M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Amputated Leg

July 31, 2025

In early June 2025, a New York medical malpractice jury awarded a 75-year-old man, who exercised and swam regularly, $5.6 million for his leg amputation that was required due to a hospital emergency room visit on June 6, 2018, which he alleged was entirely preventable, according to his New York medi[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants

May 30, 2025

The plaintiffs filed their New York medical malpractice action against Nadezhda Krebs, Natela Abramov, and Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens (“Mount Sinai”) alleging that they deviated from the accepted standard of medical care by clearing the plaintiffs’ decedent for general anesthesia d[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Ophthalmologist In Cataract Surgery Malpractice Case

December 21, 2024

In October 2013, Ralph Carter (the decedent), who had a long, significant history of alcohol abuse, presented to the defendant Jonathan Ellant, an ophthalmologist, with vision issues. Upon determining that the decedent had cataracts in each eye, Ellant recommended that the decedent have surgery perf[...]

New York Appellate Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

December 16, 2024

Background Facts After Gretchen Revere (plaintiff) presented to her primary care physician (PCP) with numerous symptoms including the loss of taste and smell, the PCP referred plaintiff to allergist Stella M. Castro, M.D. of Asthma & Allergy Associates, P.C. (defendants). Following an initial ev[...]

$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[...]

$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 […][...]

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