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On February 6, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (which handles appeals from federal court trials in Connecticut and New York) upheld a jury verdict of $41.5 million to a 15 year old female high student. The students parents sued their daughters High School for failing to...
On February 6, 2018, Boston Scientific lost its appeal to the Fourth Circuit in an attempt to over turn a favorable jury verdict which awarded $14.5 million to 4 women who were injured by a defectively designed pelvic mesh. The jury awarded each of the 4 women punitive damages in the aggregate am...
On January 18, 2018, a Manhattan Judge declared that the MTA was responsible for the injuries suffered by a sandhog who fell off an unsecured 8 foot straight metal ladder. The sandhog proved that while attempting to gain access to an elevated height (where he was required to spray concrete) in a ...
Yesterday, the Manhattan District Attorneys Office reported that Paul Richard Karan, age 81, had pleaded guilty to grand larceny from multiple families trusts accounts. He admitted stealing over $2.6 million dollars from his unsuspecting clients who trusted him. Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. stat...
Today, the New York Court of Appeals issued a ruling allowing broad disclosure of photographs and messages posted on Facebook. Moreover, it allowed the disclosure of the data revealing the timing and number of characters in posted messages (which) would be relevant to plaintiffs claim that she ...
On February 15, 2018, the Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a medical malpractice plaintiff and refused to dismiss a late filed lawsuit saying a jury should decide the issue. The plaintiff was treated by the defendant orthopedist for chronic shoulder problems beginning in 1998. The patient under...
This month, a Michigan Supreme Court threw out a $20 million verdict awarded to the Estate of a woman who died after a surgeon operated on her brain by mistake and without consent. The family of the victim suffered two tragedies-death and a zero for a recovery caused by carelessness of a hospital and an attorney.
A Nassau County Supreme Court Justice wisely ruled on February 13, 2018, that a law firm representing the husband in a divorce action cannot hire the associate attorney from the wifes law firm without disqualifying the husbands law firm. Imagine divulging your secrets to an attorney in the mids...
Last week an upstate appellate court upheld the dismissal of a hospital resident from a medical malpractice suit on the ground that he was in training and did not exercise independent medical judgment during the operation. However, the orthopedic surgeon who was supervising the resident must now stand trial.
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