The Commission on Judicial Conduct has cleared the presiding justice of the First Department Appellate Division, Judge Luis Gonzalez, of all charges of misconduct in connection with allegations that he improperly made attestations on certain mortgage documents, improperly permitted the private practice of law by his executive assistant, permitted a…
This medical malpractice trial commenced on April 4, 2012 in Penobscot County Superior Court, Maine. The details are set forth in an article in The Bangor News. Although essential facts are not included in the article it appears that the defendant physician prescribed methadone for pain resulting from prolotherapy for…
From New York Daily News; “One worker was killed and four others injured when a crane collapsed Tuesday night at the construction site for the MTA No. 7 train extension project,officials said. The man who died, a 29-year-old, was pulled from the pit that sits 60 feet below street level…
Stephen Mackauf will serve as the Co-Chair for the American Conference Institute‘s 11th Annual Advanced Forum on Preventing, Managing and Defending Against Claims of Obstetric Malpractice held from June 27 to June 28 at the The Union League of Philadelphia. The event is the nation’s premier obstetric malpractice conference and…
In what is being called the largest civil verdict in Pickens County history, a jury has awarded $2.4 million to a man whose wife died of complications from gynecological surgery. Toyota Motor Corp. plans to recall about 700,000 vehicles because of a variety of safety issues. Chrysler Group also announced…
Our partner Jeffery Bloom settled this complex and difficult liability New York Medical Malpractice case in New York Supreme Court, Nassau County following two mediations. The case arose as a result of the alleged negligent care by the defendant doctors’ of the plaintiffs’ daughter a then 10-year old girl. It…
By Rhonda Kay, Partner, Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz; In Edwards v. Erie Coach Lines Co. (17 N.Y.3d 306, 929 N.Y.S.2d 41 [2011]) The New York Court of Appeals clarified choice of law analysis in a multi-party case. New York’s choice of law analysis, commonly referred to…
By Anthony Gair; Resolution of whether a plaintiff has a viable action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 turns on whether the applicable state statute is inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States; Robinson v. Wegman, 436 U.S. 584, 98 S. Ct. 1991 (1978) citing 42 U.S.C. §1988.…
A Missouri jury returned a medical malpractice judgment of more than $1 million in favor of the parents of a boy who died during birth at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin before an emergency C-section was performed. San Francisco wrongful death lawsuit against BART police will proceed despite…
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:…