This blog is designed to educate and inform you about recent news and how it may impact your legal case in New York. I have provided commentary and opinion and welcome your comments to keep the conversation going.
If you have urgent legal questions or need a lawyer, please pick up the phone and call me at 516-487-8207 today.
- Page 70
-
Big Pharma May Be Inducing For-Profit Dialysis Centers to Prescribe Riskier DrugsFor-profit kidney dialysis centers use more dangerous and expensive drugs than their non-profit counterparts, according to a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
-
New York’s Highest Court Passes on Opportunity to Allow Medical Malpractice Victims to Sue for Their “Loss of Chance” of RecoveryThe case that brought this question before the court involved medical personnel who improperly inserted a breathing tube and perforated an elderly woman's esophagus.
-
Bill Introduced to Extend New York’s ‘Archaically’ Short Time to Sue for Medical MalpracticeThe bill, known as “Lavern’s Law,” was inspired by Lavern Wilkerson, who died this year of a curable lung cancer that doctors disclose for two years.
-
Doctor Asserts that Near Misses of Medical Malpractice Should Be Teachable MomentsDr. Danielle Ofri, now a professor at New York University School of Medicine, describes her error as a “near miss.” An elderly patient with dementia was sent to
-
Baby's Face is Cut During C-Section...Is This Evidence of Medical Malpractice in New York?You want to know whether cutting the baby's face during an emergency C-section is a departure from the baseline standard of care for an obstetrician.
-
You're not happy with your attorney...Can you go to another attorney in the middle of your case?Oftentimes an injured victim who has selected an attorney and is unhappy usually has various reasons for their unhappiness. Maybe there is a clear lack of communication.
-
Risks of Laparoscopic GYN SurgeryOur medical experts tell us that injuries can occur upon insertion of a needle when beginning laparoscopic GYN surgery. If the surgeon fails to timely recognize and treat that injury,
-
Failure to give blood thinner following urology surgery results in massive saddle pulmonary embolus and sudden death.He had been on blood thinners prior to surgery. His doctor told him to stay on his coumadin and while in the hospital they would stop it right before surgery.
-
Why Some New York Doctors Get Away with Medical Malpractice & Don't Have to Pay a Dime in CompensationIf a doctor screws up and causes you harm, do you think he's going to come right out and tell you he screwed up? Do you think he's going to tell you "Mrs. Jones, I just want you to know
-
Why would a medical malpractice and personal injury lawyer fire a client?You might think that the client is the only one who can fire the attorney. Well actually the reverse is also true. The attorney can actually fire the client. However the mechanics of doing that