Our Partner Jeffrey Bloom will be a speaker at the “Mount Sinai Update: Breast Imaging Conference” to be held at The New York Academy of Medicine on October 12, 2015 . Jeff will speak from 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM and his presentation will cover the plaintiff’s attorney’s perspective on…
In 2001, Pam Tusiani died as a result of Medical Malpractice in New York after she fatally reacted to Parnate, an antidepressant she had been prescribed by a treatment center that was providing medical care without a license. The young woman was suffering from borderline personality disorder, a disease often misdiagnosed. Using…
Medical malpractice and negligent care to inmates is the subject of a new article in Fair Warning. The author, Brian Joseph, looks at various cases of inmates who have died as the result of medical negligence committed by private companies that provides correctional medical services. Some of these companies have been…
To precribe Proglycem (diazoxide) to a baby with risk factors for pulmonary hypertension can be medical malpractice leading to severe personal injury. FDA MedWatch, the FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program recently released a drug safety communication to warn that 11 cases of pulmonary hypertension in infants and…
Briefing Book: Medical Malpractice by the Numbers is a yearly compilation by the Center for Justice and Democracy of all recently published statistics and research related to Medical Malpractice in the US. The Briefing book cover Medical Malpractice Litigation, Health Care Costs and “Defensive Medicine” , Tort Reform, Medical Malpractice Insurance,…
The FDA is warning that in rare cases unintentional injections of soft tissue fillers into blood vessels in the face can block blood vessels and restrict blood supply to tissues and in the worst cases result in embolization. The filler could travel to another part of the body and could cause vision…
Unfortunately many doctors are not very good at communication with their patients and to protect themselves from medical malpractice, they increase the number of office visits and perform additional but often unnecessary procedures and tests. They call it “defensive medicine” but according to a recent article in the New York Times written by…
The law in New York State requires victims of medical malpractice to file their claim within 15 months after medical malpractice occurs at a public hospital and 2 1/2 years against a private hospital or physician. Lavern’s Law proposes to start the statute of limitations from the time a patient discovers the…
A 34 year old woman died from a botched butt lift in Queens, NYC. The woman traveled from Maryland with her mother to receive silicon injections in a basement apartment that a phony plastic surgeon was using as her office. After she received the injection, the patient started gurgling and struggling to breath.…
Failure to diagnose neurosarcoidosis can be medical malpractice that can drastically impair the quality of life of a person. In its “Case of the Month” , the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (JAPA) discusses the case of a 68 year old woman who’s condition severely worsened after she was…