New York City Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Medical Malpractice

A man from Illinois was awarded $24 Million in a medical malpractice case that he brought against the doctor and nurse practioner that treated him. He was undergoing surgery for kidney stones when he had a heart attack. The man is now confined to a wheelchair. As a result of the oxygen interruption, Porter lost most of his fine motor skills and suffers from spastic movement, severe double...

A Massachusetts woman, given HIV treatments for nearly nine years before discovering she was misdiagnosed, was awarded $2.5 million in damages.The medical malpractice lawsuit claimed the doctor treating her at the University Of Massachusetts Medical Center, repeatedly failed to order proper tests to confirm the diagnosis, even though regular blood tests did not show the presence of HIV.The...

At first doctors told Darrie Eason that she had breast cancer, but then four months later, after she had already completed a double mastectomy, the doctors told her that the results had been a mistake. Apparently her tissue sample had been mislabeled at CBLPath medical lab in Rye Brook.Eason sued CBLPath in state supreme court in Mineola last month, seeking an undisclosed sum of money. The 1...

A woman died after falling at a Florida hospital and her son is now suing for medical malpractice. The 63-year-old woman was a patient at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center in 2003. The woman died from blunt force trauma to the head. A plaintiff's expert, Dr. Michael Langan from Boston General Hospital, said no. Langan said the staff ignored protocol requiring high-risk fall patients to be...

A medical malpractice case involving the head football coach for Notre Dame has ended with the jury finding the doctors not negligent in their care and treatment. The football coach had gastric bypass surgery in 2002. There were complications and a second surgery was needed. He claims that he is still suffering from the surgery today. Ferguson, director of Massachusetts General's surgical...

On Monday, The New York State Insurance Superintendent approved a 14% raise in medical malpractice insurance rates that doctors will have to pay. The increase is up 5% from last year's 9% increase and a 7% increases over the past two years.Due to the increase, you will eventually pay more out of pocket for health care, says the head of the Chemung County Medical Society. Dr. David Schofield,...

The family of a local firefighter, wants questions answered about the medical care he received or lack there of, at a well known hospital in Manhattan.The thirty-nine year old firefighter from yonkers, was hurt last week in a skiing accident. His family says, a piece of metal, surgically implanted into his neck, killed him while he was being treated at Mt. Sinai, and they want to know why and...

The New York Times published an article about a neurological study that points to an increased risk of mental birth defects in children who were exposed to epilepsy drug Depakote while in the womb. Researchers found that children of mothers who took Depakote during pregnancy scored 7 to 8 points lower on I.Q. tests at 2 years of age than mothers who took other epilepsy drugs. The researchers...

The recently published HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study reviewed nearly 5,000 hospitals from 2003 to 2005 found that medical errors have continued to rise. The recently published HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study reviewed nearly 5,000 hospitals from 2003 to 2005 found that medical errors have continued to rise. In that 3-year period, patient safety...

Leading publications report that the number of doctor-owned surgical hospitals is steadily growing, but rules governing their emergency medical care services have not kept up with the demand. Leading publications report that the number of doctor-owned surgical hospitals is steadily growing, but rules governing their emergency medical care services have not kept up with the demand. There have...

A Commack, New York couple is suing a fertility clinic alleging they were given the wrong sperm - resulting in the wrong child. The couple claims their daughter is too dark to be theirs. Now they are suing New York Medical Services for Reproductive medicine for medical malpractice and other claims after several genetic tests confirm the Husband is not the father of the baby.As the business for...

A report from LifeNews.com on February 27, 2007, says that a New York state appeals court ruled that a girl is allowed to sue the city of Brooklyn for birth injuries that originated before she was born. Pro-life advocates are hailing this decision as a milestone in furthering the rights of unborn children. The case itself involved a girl whose mother worked for the city of Brooklyn while...

Meriter Hospital of Dane County Wisconsin was cleared of any negligence in the birth of baby boy born in 2001. The child suffered birth injuries and has cerebral palsy and is not able to walk or talk. One of the doctors in attendance was found not negligent by the jury as well.After some 18 hours of deliberations spread over two days, jurors found two nurses from the hospital negligent in the...

In the wake of the tort reform debate, you keep hearing how doctors are leaving states and how we need more doctors. Maybe I no longer live in a small community, but when I did I remember several people driving an hour away to a larger community where we felt the quality of care was better.Now here's my hypothesis. Is it better to have fewer doctors who are good doctors or to have more doctors...

I've read some recent articles about the high rate of drug abuse among doctors. As you know, medicine is readibly accessible to doctors and that may in part be part of the problem. I've heard horror stories over the years about doctors operating while intoxicated on alcohol or drugs and it has be wondering how prevelant this is. I encourage anyone who might suspect this to hire an attorney...