New York medical malpractice verdict Archives

$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[...]

$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 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[...]

$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 […][...]

$7M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Rehabilitation Facility Doctor

March 12, 2024

In mid-December 2023, a New York medical malpractice jury awarded the estate of a woman $5 million and her husband $2 million against her rehabilitation attending physician who was treating her after surgery on her left leg in 2014. The 2014 surgery was necessary to treat the woman’s left femu[...]

$1.3 Million New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For 18 Days Of Pain And Suffering Upheld

May 17, 2023

$1.3 Million Verdict For 18 Days Of Pain And Suffering Upheld: Following the discharge of the plaintiff’s decedent from the defendant hospital to a rehabilitation center on September 12, 2012, the decedent’s condition worsened, and he died on September 30, 2012. The plaintiff commenced a New Yor[...]

$28.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict In Favor Of Former New York Giants Football Player

September 29, 2022

$28.5 Million Verdict In Favor Of Former NY Giants Football Player: On September 23, 2022, a Manhattan medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $28.5 million in favor of now 33-year-old Michael Cox, a former running back for the New York Giants, who was enjoying the benefits of[...]

$7.6M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Judge

August 20, 2022

On June 1, 2022, a New York medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs in a New York medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against a hospital for the death of a Supreme Court judge who died from a heart attack in his hospital room after he was left alone and unmonitored for 23 [&[...]

$13.5M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Veteran’s Amputation Due To Misdiagnosis

June 11, 2021

A New York medical malpractice jury awarded an Army veteran and his wife $13.5 million on May 27, 2021 after a six-day trial, specifying that $10 million was being awarded for pain and suffering and an additional $3.5 million for future medical expenses and lost wages. The New York medical malpracti[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Portion Of Trial Court’s Reduction Of Medical Malpractice Pain And Suffering Award

August 5, 2020

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) decided on June 24, 2020, in a New York medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant perforated a part of her small intestine as he perform[...]

$55.9M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Quadraplegia Following Neck Surgery

September 29, 2019

A New York medical malpractice plaintiff obtained a $55.9 million medical malpractice verdict after a five-month jury trial regarding the laminectomy performed on her in 2009 at a New York hospital following her complaints of pain and tingling in her neck, arms, and hands. During the surgery, her sp[...]

$5M Brooklyn Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Ongoing Urine Leak Following Kidney Transplant Surgery

August 29, 2019

On July 17, 2019, after a month-long New York medical malpractice trial, a Brooklyn medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a woman’s estate in the amount of $5 million. The woman had died at age 39 in 2000, one and a half years after she underwent kidney transplant surgery d[...]

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