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On January 10, 2017, a West Hempstead attorney, David Frankel pleaded guilty to stealing approximately $5,700,000 from 7 real estate clients over the course of 15 months. All clients concerned thought there money was safely deposited into an attorney's escrow account.
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.
According to Reuters, last week the non-profit group, Praxis Project filed a lawsuit against Coca-Cola and the American Beverage Association for allegedly misleading consumers about the health risks from drinking sugary soda/juice. Praxis Project claimed the defendants minimize the health risks t...
Johnson & Johnson loses appeal of $13.7M verdict for defective transvaginal mesh that caused painful sex.
Pedestrian's knee and low back injuries were evaluated by a jury that awarded $790,000. The Appellate Court cut the verdict by $290,000.
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 CDC will meet on January 17, 2017 to consider lowering the threshold for lead exposure for children by 30%.
Ikea agreed to pay $50 million for the needless deaths of 3 children who were crushed by unstable furniture that easily tips over.
Brooklyn jury award of $1.9 million dollars for a wrist fracture reduced as excessive to $960,000.
Dallas Jury slams Johnson & Johnson with a $1 billion plus verdict for defective hip implants.
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.
Seven years after subway rider fractured her hip due to the negligence of the train conductor she finally had her case tried in 2014 and won. Just today - an Appellate Court overturned the verdict and directed a retrial. In 2007 the plaintiff was a 62 year old female who boarded a subway train an...
"So what" defense prevails to terminate legal malpractice action prior to trial.
Court dismisses malpractice case alleging overdose of Botox injections to treat semi-facial spasms that resulted in a bad outcome.
It was reported in today's New York Law Journal that a Manhattan elder law attorney was disbarred following his plea of guilty to criminal possession of a forged instrument and offering a false instrument to a Court. According to papers filed in Court, this Manhattan attorney filed forged receipt...
On November 15, 2016, the New York Times reported that after decades of a decline in highway fatalities, "highway deaths jumped 10.4 percent, to 17,775" comparing the first six months of 2015 to the same period in 2016. Cars and roads are safer; however, there are more technologies that cause dis...
On November 15, 2016 a Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of a patient who was injured while being transported in an ambulance when the gurney she was resting on overturned. Both the Village of Lindenhurst Fire Department and a volunteer EMT were found to hav...
Wright Medical Technology announced that it would pay $240 million dollars to 1300 plaintiff's whose hip implants failed anywhere from 150 days to 8 years after hip replacement surgery. It was claimed that the defective implants shed metallic debris into surrounding tissue causing "metallosis". T...
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 ...
Third Jury trial against Johnson & Johnson for its talcum powder products causing ovarian cancer results in a verdict last week of $70 million dollars, including $65 million in punitive damages.
On October 27, 2016 a New York County Supreme Court Judge agreed with Skadden Arps that a former client who had sued them for $35 million dollars was too late in filing suit. The legal malpractice suit was filed by the creditors of a bankrupt aviation company. For many years Skadden Arps had repr...
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...
On October 18, 2016, a Federal Court Judge in Brooklyn dismissed a legal malpractice claim for lost profits on the sale of a multi - million dollar residential home in Sands Point, New York. The homeowners claimed that due to the negligence of their attorney's, they lost the opportunity to sell t...
On October 4, 2016, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention ("CDC") announced a recall of Intravenous Flush Syringes manufactured by Nurse Assist, Inc., due to a potential link to a dangerous bloodstream infection. The product flushes sterile saline thru an intravenous tube connecte...
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