Our Partner Stephen H. Mackauf will be participating in a two day Seminar, “Defending the Delivery Team: Obstetric Malpractice” sponsored by Legal iQ. The program will be held in San Francisco on April 28th and 29th, 2009. Stephen will be discussing the Plaintiff’s perspective. For more information click here.
Our partner Robert Conason will be speaking at the International Institute for Continuing Medical Education, Inc.’s Mount Sinai Update 2008: Breast Imaging. Bob will be speaking as to the plaintiff’s viewpoint on Breast Imaging Malpractice: An Attorney’s Perspective. The program is scheduled for October 13 – 15, 2008. The program…
Our partners Jeffrey Bloom and Richard Steigman have co-authored an article entitled “The Impact of Arons: A Look at the Court of Appeals’ Decision to Allow Ex Parte Interviews of Treating Doctors and Where We Go from Here.” The Article is in The Spring 2008 Edition of Bill Of Particulars…
Murray v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation June 24th, 2008 WARNING The 2d. Department upheld the dismissal of plaintiff’s action for wrongful death resulting from medical malpractice when the plaintiff’s counsel failed to appear for a final conference. The Court held; “To be relieved of the default in…
LOSS OF VISION FOLLOWING BLEPHAROPLASTY AS A RESULT OF ORBITAL HEMORRHAGE Blepharoplasty basically is surgery in which excess tissue is removed from the eyelids. It is the most commonly performed cosmetic surgery of the face. Upper eyelid surgery is usually performed for removal of excess skin, muscle and fat and…
FAILURE TO PROMPTLY REVISE A SHUNT IN A PATIENT WITH HYDROCEPHALUS. IS IT NECESSARILY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE? By Anthony H. Gair; Hydrocephalus is basically an overabundance of cerebro/spinal fluid within the head. Hence, the commonly used lay term, “water on the brain”. While hydrocephalus is usually thought of as occurring in…
FAILURE TO PROPERLY TREAT EXTRAVASATION OF DOXORUBICIN (Adriamycin) By: Anthony H. Gair; New York medical malpractice attorney elaborates on the extravasation of intravenously administered chemotherapeutic agents into the subcutaneous tissue of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy is a known risk of treatment. The potential gravity of injury caused by extravasation is…
A Study To End the Frivolous Malpractice Lawsuit Myth This article written by our partner Jeffrey B. Bloom in 2006 is just as relevant today as it was then. “Last week, within days of the U.S. Senate performing its annual rite of taking up and then denying cloture to a…
By Anthony H. Gair, Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom&Rubinowitz The popliteal artery is the major source of blood supply to the lower leg. The femoral artery becomes the popliteal artery as it passes through the hiatus of the adductor magnus muscle and enters the popliteal fossa. It generally ends…