New York Medical Malpractice Claims And Complaints
The New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct (“Board”) was created in 1976 to administer New York’s physician discipline program. The Board’s stated mission is to protect the public from...
View Article$120 Million New York Medical Malpractice Verdict
On May 25, 2012, a Bronx, New York medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of approximately $120 million against three local hospitals and a neurologist (the...
View ArticleRate Of Bedsores In New York Nursing Homes Much Above National Average
New York State ranks a disturbing 44th of all U.S. states in preventing bedsores (also referred to as pressure ulcers) among high-risk nursing home residents despite its highly-touted “War on the Sore”...
View Article$100 Million New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Injury Due To...
On August 24, 2012, a Staten Island, New York medical malpractice jury awarded more than $100 million in favor of a now-seventeen-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy due to a brain injury that the...
View ArticleNew York Court Of Appeals Says Doctor’s Sex With Patient Was Medical Malpractice
On November 29, 2012, the Court of Appeals of New York (New York’s highest appellate court) issued its written memorandum in a case we first blogged about on October 22, 2012 (“Doctor Had An Affair...
View ArticleNew York $4 Million Medical Malpractice Settlement For Birth Injuries
Last month it was announced that a New York medical malpractice case that had been filed in the Westchester County Supreme Court against the Westchester Medical Center had been settled for...
View ArticleNew York Hospital Sued For Hepatitis Allegedly Caused By Reusing Insulin Pens
An upstate New York hospital has been sued for medical malpractice by three patients who claim they contracted hepatitis when hospital employees reused insulin pens (pen-shaped injector devices that...
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