New York Malpractice & Injury Lawyer Blog

George Tourloukis made the difficult decision to undergo cataract surgery on his right eye on January 24, 2014. Unfortunately however, Tourloukis’ trust was misplaced since his doctor put in the wrong lens and caused permanent damage and substantial financial loss for him. Tourloukis has now filed a lawsuit January 21st in Cook County Circuit Court…

A 64-year-old woman was awarded $5 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit. The suit stemmed from injuries she received after treatment at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights. According to court documents, Urmila Patel went to the hospital’s emergency room on May 5, 2011. She was weak, confused and may have had a seizure in…

Leanna Loud, 47, a nurse, wife and mother of three was awarded $7 million verdict by a jury after a doctor misdiagnosed her condition as being benign. Loud’s doctor failed to adhere to a “degree of care and skill ordinarily exercised by medical care providers.” Because of the misdiagnosis, Loud’s cancer was allowed to advance…

The VA, or U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs, employs close to 19,000 doctors and operates 152 hospitals. In the last dozen years, the VA has paid out approximately $100 million per year to settle veterans’ medical malpractice claims. In the ten years following the attacks of 9/11, the VA paid close to 1,000 families $200…

Northwest Community Hospital has reached a $5 million settlement with a woman and her family who alleged that the treatment she received at the Arlington Heights hospital left her with brain damage. Urmila Patel, 64, and her husband will receive the settlement as approved by Cook County Judge James N. O’Hara. Also named as defendants…

HOUSTON, TX – Medical malpractice lawyers are used to hearing that their claims are frivolous. Lawyers are used to these types of comments, yet they go on fighting for their clients anyway. It’s their job. One attorney in Houston, Texas is fighting back, if only in words. Kay Van Wey is a 30-year veteran of…

Medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the United States and are responsible for the deaths of more than 400,000 people each year. That is according to the Journal of Patient Safety (September 2013 – Volume 9 – Issue 3 – p 122-128). Even with those statistics, there are those within…

It isn’t hard to imagine that as we get older, we take more medication. In fact, a recent study found that 40 percent of seniors over the age of 65 take five or more medications daily. Even more take at least one prescription medication every day. Unfortunately, it was discovered that 55 percent of seniors…

Today we have a disturbing story about the intersections between social media and nursing home abuse. An employee at a nursing home was arrested for using her phone to take a mostly-nude video of a 93-year-old Alzheimer’s patient and posting it on Snapchat. She has been charged with a felony for her crime. Snapchat is…

The New York Court of Appeals recently ruled that a third party may sue a doctor at a hospital that gave a pain medication to a patient who later caused an accident in which the third party was injured. According to documents in the case of Davis v. South Nassau Communities Hospital, Lorraine Walsh came…