Posts tagged Medical Malpractice

• Mother of Three Brain Dead from Spa Procedure

  Paul Napoli | October 05, 2009 10:24 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  October 4th, 2009 The family of Rohie Kah-Orukotan, a 37-year-old nurse and mother of three, struggle with the decision of taking her off life support at after she suffered a complication during...

• Injured While Visiting or Staying in New York

  Alan Ripka | September 02, 2009 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  During holiday or business trips to New York, with many visitors and tourists enjoying what New York has to offer, many people are injured as a result of automobile and trip and fall accidents, as...

• Are You at Risk for Sexually Transmitted Hepatitis C?

  Alan Ripka | July 31, 2009 12:20 PM | 3 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Those who contracted Hepatitis C at Northern Westchester Hospital between October 8, 2007 and February 28, 2008 may have sexually transmitted this virus through intimate relations to spouses,...

• Exposure to Hepatitis C Could Spark Lawsuits

  Alan Ripka | July 16, 2009 12:14 PM | 5 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Today’s news and newspapers uncovers Northern Westchester hospital, in Westchester NY, as having potentially exposing 6,000 patients to Hepatitis C. The patients were injected with what they...

• Intestinal Anastomotic Failures

  Alan Ripka | July 15, 2009 12:16 PM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  If you've had abdominal surgery, or an intestinal-bowel-colon resection and it failed, it may be due to medical malpractice, product liability (such as the device that seals the ends malfunctioned...

• Staffers Tried To Cover Up Waiting Room Death, Report Says

  Chrissie Cole | June 19, 2009 11:32 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A report by the Department of Investigation released today -- a year after Esmin Green’s death -- reveals staffers allegedly falsified records and lied to authorities in an attempt to cover...

• Medical Apology Bill Gains Headway

  Marc Jay Bern | March 16, 2009 11:28 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  There is a new proposed bill that actually makes it mandatory for doctors and medical professionals to apologize to victims of medical malpractice. The rate of medical malpractice recently has...

• Medical Malpractice at an All-Time Low

  Oguz Ozdemir | January 13, 2009 1:05 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Many different counties across the United States have seen all time low rates of medical malpractice in 2008. This is a very interesting turn of events as we have seen the rate of medical...

• Medical Malpractice Leaves Man Without Leg

  Marc Jay Bern | November 06, 2008 5:33 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Healthcare today has changed from what it used to be. Healthcare used to be one of the biggest prides of our country, and now it has changed because of the overwhelming amount of mistakes,...

• Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed By Family When Patient Dies After Surgery

  Paul Napoli | November 04, 2008 6:28 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  After a patient undergoes surgery they are often considered very vulnerable and are normally watched carefully in order to make sure than they recover properly. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the...