New York Malpractice & Injury Lawyer Blog

No doctor or medical professional wants to find him or herself the object of a medical malpractice lawsuit. However, even with the best of intentions and a commitment to the profession and art of medicine, it’s possible for anyone to have an off day or to make mistakes. Medscape recently released its Malpractice Report for…

An Atlanta psychiatrist has been arrested after 36 of his patients died. Twelve of those patients died as a result of overdosing on medication that he prescribed to them. According to the Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson, Dr. Narendra Nagareddy’s office in Jonesboro was raided by DEA agents on Thursday. Dr. Nagareddy has…

Medical malpractice is something that can happen anywhere in the world, as shown in today’s case. No matter where a patient and their family lives, there is a reasonable expectation toward a standard of care. When those standards are not met, medical malpractice can occur. In Pakistan, an enquiry report issued on Monday recommended legal…

A patient in Cook County has filed a lawsuit against a podiatrist, alleging that the physician chose the wrong course of treatment, causing the man to suffer persistent pain and limited mobility as a result. According to documents filed in Cook County District Court that were filed on January 5th, Robert Ford-Reynolds, the plaintiff in…

A dentist, like any other medical professional, has a duty to provide you with a certain standard of care. If that standard of care is not upheld, or is violated, you may have a case for medical malpractice. To have a case, you must satisfy four requirements: Duty, breach (or negligence), causation (why did it…

A couple in Evansville couple is continuing their decade-long legal fight over their claims of medical malpractice in their daughter’s birth that left her a quadriplegic and unable to speak. A Vanderburgh County jury awarded the family $15 million in damages in in 2013 for their lawsuit against a doctor and St. Mary’s Medical Center…

A man is suing an Orland Park surgeon for medical malpractice after he allegedly botched a procedure to remove his gallbladder. The plaintiff, Alfred Matthews filed the lawsuit against Dr. James R. O’Donnell and Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation on December 23rd. In the complaint, Matthews states that he had undergone an operation in order…

When it comes to the things that kill people in the United States, several causes come to mind. Drunk driving, cancer and heart disease tend to top the list in peoples’ minds. What many don’t think about is doctors. Doctors help and heal us, don’t they? In most cases, the answer is yes. But doctors…

It’s interesting to note that the cumulative spending on malpractice payments against anesthesiologists has fallen dramatically in recent years, from $174.4 million in 2005 to $91.1 million in 2013. This data is part of a new study that was obtained from the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). The trend today, however, seems to have shifted…

When you go to a doctor’s office with a specific complaint, of course you want to have that condition accurately diagnosed and effectively treated. No one wants an incorrect diagnosis or a treatment that can potentially lead to permanent damage or even further injury. Because of an alleged misdiagnosis, however, two doctors and the Panto…