You spend your morning scanning the news. Maybe you read the newspaper. Maybe you watch the morning news. Maybe you listen to the news in your car on the way to work. Or, if you are like many of us, you read your news online. No matter which way you get your news content, this section provides relevant information about current events that are happening relating to accident cases, wrongful death cases and medical malpractice cases in New York and throughout the country.
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Jury: Burns From Surgical Fire During C-Section Isn't Medical MalpracticeA jury recently ruled against a medical malpractice suit that claimed a doctor's negligence was responsible for his patient's belly catching fire during surgery.
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NY Highest Court: Affair with Patient is MalpracticeThe Court of Appeals ruled that a jury could reasonably conclude the affair to be medical malpractice if they thought it was "substantially related" to the doctor's treatment of the patient.
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NY Judge Rules that Dead Woman's Family Can Sue Doctor Even Though She Was Not His Patient!One of the people he shot and killed in the pharmacy was Jamie Taccetta. Her family then brought a wrongful death lawsuit against the anesthesiologist, pain doctor Stan Li who continued to prescribe pain pills to Laffer.
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Baby Overdoses After Nurse Administers Lethal Dose of Antibiotics“The infant went into a coma, Akther said, and was on life support until [the following] Tuesday.” Akther said Amaan received 500 mg of the antibiotic, Zithromax. Akther, however, “was later told that the proper dosage was 80 mg.”
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NYPD Car Hits Pedestrian and Later Bills Pedestrian for Damage to Police CarZorski walked on White Street and crossed Centre Street, when a police car drove and hit Zorski’s left leg. According to Zorski, after the police car struck his leg, he crashed into the car’s side-view mirror, and fell to the ground, where he landed on his wrist.
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Firetrucks to the rescue! Eleven firemen injured after two FDNY trucks collidedOn Thursday, November 8, 2012, two separate fire departments responded to a 911 call that reported of smoke in the borough of Brooklyn. FDNY trucks, Engine 257 and Ladder 170 dispatched fire trucks in order to respond to the 911 call.
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Woman Settles for $212,500 for Gauze Left in Her Body After SurgeryGauze left inside patient causes intra-abdominal abscess which isn't recognized until 8 years later.
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NY Woman Received Third-Degree Burns After Her Abdomen Caught Fire During a C-section
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Premature Discharge of an Emergency Room Patient Results in Death and the Need For Careful ER Evaluation; NY Times...between 600,000 and a million people who are admitted into an emergency room are sent home, “only to return within 72 hours because of medical errors.
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Staten Island Plastic Surgeon Loses License Over Medical MalpracticeA plastic surgeon from Staten Island had his medical license revoked as a result of a state panel review of his 40-plus malpractice suits.