Medical Malpractice

Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders in the state of New York have come to an agreement about Lavern’s Law, a rule which dictates the guidelines for how long cancer patients have to initiate malpractice suits against medical personnel for failing to detect cancer. The... Read More

Exeter Hospital is facing litigation involving the death of a 67-year old woman whose urinary tract infection was allegedly misdiagnosed by doctors. The medical malpractice lawsuit was filed on January 13 in Rockingham Superior Court. According to a news report in Seacoast Online, Dr. Steven... Read More

Despite proportionally fewer medical malpractice lawsuits than many other states, New York and New Jersey malpractice cases have seen far more money paid out to victims. According to a recent report, medical practitioners in these states paid out nearly $1 billion in malpractice settlements in 2015.... Read More

The widow of a man who died at UMass Memorial Medical Center has been awarded $250,000 by a jury that determined medical malpractice led to the man’s death. Hospital staff failed to transfer the admitted patient to the critical care unit in a timely fashion,... Read More

A 24-year-old woman who underwent a hysterectomy after delivering her first child was awarded the maximum amount by a judge last month. The judge determined the physician treating the plaintiff for bleeding after pregnancy did not follow appropriate standard of care when removing the uterus,... Read More

A Long Island brain surgeon has found himself on the wrong end of multiple malpractice lawsuits. Neurosurgeon Paolo Bolognese has been named as the defendant in three suits by women who allege they contracted painful conditions after receiving unnecessary or negligent treatment by Bolognese. Surgeon’s... Read More

At least 13 cases of a potentially fatal fungal infection have been identified in U.S. hospitals, warn the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Health regulators caution that Candida auris is usually resistant to typical anti-fungal medications, making it a grave threat to patients... Read More

A Baltimore jury handed down a $10 million verdict against University of Maryland Medical System last month, in wrongful death claim involving drug administration errors.  Dennis Allen went to the hospital in 2013 for kidney problems. The treatment he received for a related condition caused... Read More

Penalties imposed on hospitals by Medicare are harsher for situations when patients have to be readmitted than when patients die, according to the results of a new study. Researchers found that current Medicare incentives may be more focused on reducing hospital readmissions than reducing mortality... Read More

In a rather unusual twist of events, a New York gynecologist is being charged with manslaughter following the death of a patient in what has been described as a botched second trimester abortion procedure. Dr. Robert Rho of the Liberty Women’s Health Clinic in Flushing... Read More