According to a recent report, New York has fallen behind most other states in how it vets and disciplines nurses. While nursing boards throughout the country have taken steps over the last 15 years...
Posted by: James Fitzgeraldon April 27th, 2016 in Blog
In a recent blog entry, we spoke about the prevalence of lead paint in NYC housing. Since then, news reports have revealed that hundreds of children in NYCHA apartments have actually tested positive over...
A jury has awarded a Bronx woman $50 million after a ruling that her obstetrician wounded her while delivering her baby in 2009. According to documents produced during the medical malpractice trial, the physician...
A family has reached a $30 million settlement to end a medical malpractice lawsuit against a doctor who performed several experimental surgeries on their son. It’s the fourth largest medical malpractice payment in Illinois...
A study by the anesthesiology department at Massachusetts General Hospital has revealed that some form of medication error unforeseen drug side effect occurs in nearly half of all surgeries in the U.S. Coincidentally, numbers...
Every year, nearly one of every three babies born in the U.S. are delivered by cesarean section (C-section). Is that too much? A recently released study from Consumer Reports suggests C-section births in the...
Posted by: James Fitzgeraldon April 15th, 2016 in Blog
As attorneys specializing in workers’ compensation issues, we were stunned by a recent report that dozens of New York physicians who once provided treatment for patients who suffered injuries on the job have essentially...
The negligence of a physician now practicing in New York was deemed responsible for a birth injury that left a Massachusetts girl unable to walk or talk, legally blind and dependent upon a tube...
In a recent blog, we shared results from a study that ranked states individually by how they handle malpractice claims. Because we have a network of counsel attorneys throughout the U.S. for medical malpractice...
Posted by: James Fitzgeraldon April 8th, 2016 in Autism Blog, Blog
Like many others, we were outraged by video showing a Brighton Beach elementary school worker actually punching a 9-year-old autistic student in the face while both were in the school’s cafeteria. The person charged...