REQUEST A FREE CONSULTATION212-808-800824/7 EMERGENCY HOTLINE516-965-4370
In an extraordinary, unheard of fate, a grossly negligent Texas neurosurgeon who caused terrible injuries to multiple patients, was successfully prosecuted and a jury found him guilty of a first degree felony. According to an AP report yesterday,
On February 2, 2017, a Brooklyn jury found that an obstetrician, Dr. Rubin Frenkel failed to diagnose and prevent pre-term labor in a woman who was 25 weeks pregnant. Her baby's birth weight was 1.5 pounds. At the time of trial the child was 9 years old. The mother claimed that the low birth weight and prematurity was a cause of her child's autism.
Hormone suppression therapy shown to prolong life should prostate cancer recur post surgery.
A recent study in Britain reported in a prestigious medical journal, The Lancet found that limiting the use of antibiotics may be even more effective in reducing the incidence of certain bacterial infections than meticulous cleaning of hands.
The New York Times reported today of the finding of a new study just published in the Journal Cancer. A racial and economic disparity had been noted in earlier studies of deaths from cervical cancer.
On December 23, 2016, an upstate intermediate Appellate Court held that just because a patient leaves the hospital against the advice of the ER physician doesn't mean the hospital is immune from suit. The plaintiff sought compensation for the partial amputation of two frostbitten fingers which ha...
ABC News reported yesterday how drug resistant "Superbugs" are an urgent threat to public safety because no known antibiotic can effectively treat them. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) reported on the death of a 70 year old woman a few months ago, who died in a hospital from an untreatable drug resistant infection.
Miami plastic surgeon punctures the internal organs of two patients on the same day during Brazilian Butt Lift procedures.
Last week, a Federal Court Judge in Albany refused to dismiss three wrongful death actions against an ER physician, nurses and a hospital security guard involved in the care of a violent, paranoid and psychotic patient who killed his sister, aunt and uncle hours after he was released from a hospital.
With control of both houses of Congress and the Executive branches, top Republicans including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Tom Price, (just appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services) are saying trivial lawsuits are pushing malpractice insurance premiums over the limit and driving docto...
The plaintiff was a patient of surgeon, Dr. Basal who while undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery admittedly placed a "hot mallet" on the plaintiff's thigh and stomach causing serious burns. Since the surgeon admitted the mallet was exceedingly hot and he felt it warm, the Court held as a matter o...
Nursing Home Liability For Compromising a Resident's Sense of Dignity.
Court dismisses malpractice case alleging overdose of Botox injections to treat semi-facial spasms that resulted in a bad outcome.
On October 31, 2016 Newsday reported that: "According to three lawsuits, Dr. Paolo Bolognese, Director of the Chiari Malformations Center at Neurological Surgery, botched surgeries to fix Chiari malformation, a rare, usually congenital brain defect....The lawsuits say the patients ended up worse ...
On October 14, 2016 a Connecticut jury in Bridgeport awarded $25 million dollars to a 25 year old woman who underwent a below the knee amputation in 2009 because her doctors failed to timely treat a blood clot. This unfortunate young lady went to an emergency room complaining of asthma and numbne...
A study reported on October 3, 2016 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that a doctor's political affiliation may affect the advice they give to their patient's concerning drug use, abortion, obesity, depression and gun safety. The researchers linked the records of 20,00...
On September 26, 2016 the Estate of Amy Lam filed a Notice of Claim against the New York City Health & Hospital's Corporation for the wrongful death of a 34 year old wife and mother of two children. Ms. Lam went into premature labor on July 31, 2016 (one month before her due date) and was tol...
While global death rates for maternal mortality decreased by more than a third from 2000 to 2015, according to the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (research group funded by the Gates Foundation), in the U.S., they have increased. The New York Times reported last week that the study sho...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 1 and 3 million Americans are diagnosed with sepsis each year and 15-20% of them will die. Sepsis is a blood borne infection that can be diagnosed with blood tests and a blood culture. It is treated with oral and/or intravenous a...
On September 15, 2016, the CDC announced that brain cancer is now the leading cause of death replacing leukemia, which has seen major advances in medical treatment. Not so for brain cancer in children. Cancer is the 4th leading cause of death, accounting for 10% of all childhood death's in 2014. ...
On August 31, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to add a black - box warning to approximately 400 drugs in the opioid and benzodiazepine classes. This development was prompted because increasing numbers of people have died from taking a combination of strong painkillers ...
In 2016 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines for physicians to follow, covering when to initiate opioid treatment, which opioids should be used first and for how long, and how to address potential harms associated with treatment.
The Surgeon General notes that America is in the midst of an unprecedented opioid epidemic with millions addicted and demands that the medical profession educate themselves with the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines and screen/treat their patients for opioid use disorder.
A study reported in May 2016, in the highly regarded British Medical Journal, claims that there were more than 250,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2013 -- as a result of "preventable medical errors". This is more than double the mortality rate due to medical errors found in a similar study in 1999. However, the methodology relied on in the 2016 study raises questions on its reliability, according to a columnist in the New York Times on August 15, 2016.
On August 3, 2016 an Appellate Court reinstated a lack of informed consent claim filed by a patient who underwent breast reconstruction/augmentation surgery. The plaintiff is entitled to a trial where a jury will decide whether the surgeon disclosed the appropriate information about the type of implants to be used and whether the patient gave a proper informed consent.
Learn how our firm can help you get the compensation you deserve.
Read what others have to say about their experience working with us.