In New York the statute of limitations for medical malpractice starts from the time the medical error occurred. Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein (D-Brooklyn) is sponsoring a bill that would start the statute of limitations from the time the medical error is discovered instead of the the time it occurred. The bill, named after Lavern Wilkinson,…
Our partner, New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Jeff Bloom is helping our client Elissa McMahon in her crusade to get Lavern’s law passed (see previous post). After she discovered that doctors in a New York hospital failed to diagnose cancer, Elissa McMahon was unable to bring a lawsuit because the statute of limitations had…
Victims of medical malpractice in New York have 15 months to file a lawsuit against a public hospital and 2 and half years to sue a private hospital or a physician after a medical error occurred. This rule is unfair to the many patients who only discover that they have been the victim…
New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer Jeffrey Bloom will be speaking at the New York City Bar Seminar “Current Issues in New York Medical Malpractice”. This program features a multi-disciplinary view of the current state of medical malpractice in New York, including regulatory concerns for the admitted professional liability insurers, techniques…
Our partners, New York Medical Malpractice Lawyers Ben Rubinowitz and Jeffrey Bloom appeared this morning on Good Morning America to discuss the settlement that they reached in the Joan Rivers malpractice case. See video below
Our law firm is pleased to announce that our attorneys Jeffrey Bloom and Ben Rubinowitz were successful in resolving the Joan Rivers Medical Malpractice case on behalf of her family. The amount is confidential. Here is the statement from Melissa Rivers in regards to this settlement: “In accepting this settlement, I…
If you learn that your doctor was sued for medical malpractice, should you immediately change doctors? A recent article in Consumer Reports explains how patients can find information about their doctor and what they should do about it. Not every doctor who was sued for medical malpractice is a bad doctor.…
251,000 people died from medical error in the US in 2013. This was the third highest cause of death that year in the US after cancer (585,000) and heart disease (611,000) according to estimates calculated by Martin A Makary, professor and Michael Daniel, research fellow at the Department of Surgery of Johns…
The fear of providing lawyers with new weapons for medical malpractice lawsuits and the idea that the FDA wants to tell doctors how to practice medicine are among the many reasons why most physicians are still opposed to mandatory training for prescription of painkillers . In 2012 a recommendation by an expert…
A fire erupted in a New York hospital operating room while a patient was having surgery. The accident happened in 2014 at NYU Langone Medical Center but the results of the investigation were only recently released by the New York Department of Health. The report was obtained by the NY Post under a…