Jeffery Bloom will participate in The 2012 Issues In Neonatology Symposium sponsored by Winthrop-University Hospital to be held March 8, 2012 at the Garden City Hotel, 45 Seventh Street, Garden City New York. Jeffery will take part in; The Mock Trial: A Case of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) Moderator and Judge:…
Our partner Stephen Mackauf will speak at the New York City Seminar, Medical Malpractice-2012. He will discuss Deposition and Trial Examination of the Defendant. This seminar is sponsored by The New York State Bar Association and is being held State wide. The New York City Seminar is scheduled for March…
From RSN; “In defending the U.S. military’s medical system in court, the U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that service personnel and their families are not allowed to sue for medical malpractice regardless of the circumstance. As a general rule, military members are barred from taking the government to court,…
A Washtenaw County Circuit Court jury awarded a teacher $2.5 million in a medical malpractice verdict, after suffering permanent injury during a procedure at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. Amy Garcia suffered a miscarriage in 2007 causing the death of her 14-week-old fetus and as a result required a dilation and…
For those of us who represent plaintiff’s in medical malpractice cases it is, of course obvious that the law requires the Notice of Claim to be served on The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. It is basic law that service upon the Comptroller of the City of New…
Fetal monitoring system display Los Angeles County officials are expected to approve a $2.8 million settlement of a medical malpractice suit filed against medical staff at County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center over their failure to perform an emergency cesarean section after signs of distress. The 18-year-old woman, Guadalupe Fernandez, gave birth…
Cambridge police settle civil rights case (Bay State Banner, MA) Hawaii-based soldier’s lawsuit against Burger King claims he swallowed needles in hamburger (AP) Paralyzed East Naples woman settles lawsuit against three doctors (Naples Daily News, FL) Paralyzed teen’s family wins medical malpractice suit (Detroit Free Press) Portland parents sue Legacy…
The New York Appellate Division, Second Department, has, once again, ruled that the scope of a Frye hearing regarding a plaintiff’s theory of causation in a medical malpractice action is limited only to whether or not the expert’s opinion is based on generally accepted scientific principles, as opposed to the…
In a rather unusual case, the New York Appellate Division, Second Department held that there are limits to how far a defendant can go in examining a medical malpractice plaintiff during an Independent Medical Examination in New York. In the case D’Adamo v Saint Dominic’s Home decided on September 13,…
San Francisco’s Muni target of lawsuit by slain woman’s family (San Francisco Examiner, CA) New York Hospital sues creator of website that discusses the 2003 death of his wife (Albany Times-Union, NY) The family of a Georgia man who stabbed his mother to death in a psychotic rage will be…