New York Malpractice & Injury Lawyer Blog

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…

Originally created by Dr. Lawrence Weed in the 1960s as a part of his recommendation for a problem-oriented medical record, a problem list, distilled to its basic form, is a document that states the most important health problems facing a patient, such as illnesses or diseases, injuries suffered, and anything else that has previously affected,…

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…

The man who has been long held to be the “maestro of medical malpractice torts,” Marvin Ellin, a retired Baltimore attorney, recently died as the result of a respiratory ailment on January 8th. Ellin was 92. Retired Maryland Court of Appeals Judge Joseph F. Murphy Jr. Said of Ellin: “Marvin was the dean of the…

A man from Walnut, Iowa who had his leg amputated in 2012 has been awarded $90,000 in a medical malpractice suit last Thursday. Court records indicate that Tony Bailey had been seeking damages from Jennie Edmundson Hospital, Emergency Physicians of Western Iowa and Dr. Steven Feldhaus of Heart, Lung and Vascular Surgery after Bailey had…

It seems hard to believe that any doctor could be allowed to make the same malpractice mistake over and over again. However, that is exactly what one doctor is facing now that nearly 300 people have accused the cardiologist with implantation of pacemakers or defibrillators when they were medically unnecessary. Hundreds of claims are being…

A woman suing a doctor, a physician’s assistant (“PA”), and a surgical center for malpractice, as a result of receiving an operation on the wrong knee, is entitled to partial summary judgment on the issue of liability, according to a Bronx judge. Following an automobile accident, the plaintiff sought treatment from Dr. Hostin, an orthopedic…

In a rare instance in the state of Wisconsin, two large medical malpractice claims have been paid. The settlements came, however, after significant legal hurdles. In Wisconsin, because of laws that are designed to limit who can sue for malpractice and how much they can collect if their case is won, it can be hard…

The attorneys for Dr. Abubakar Atiq Durrani have filed motions requesting that the hundreds of malpractice lawsuits filed against him be moved from Hamilton County to U.S. District Court. Dr. Durrani has been accused of having botched the spinal surgeries of more than 500 patients that were performed between 2007 and 2013. Dr. Durrani performed…