The family of Sary Mao, a Khmer-speaking Cambodian refugee, is seeking justice and closure after her body went undiscovered for five days following her tragic death due to a heart attack. The incident occurred at Montefiore’s Family Health Center in The Bronx, NYC. As medical malpractice attorneys, our professional focus…
The 3 emergency units at Montefiore Hospital in New York are so overcrowded and unruly that it endangered patients and staffers. Patients have to wait for hours to be treated and staffers are regularly attacked by psych patients. According to a nurse working there who was recently interviewed by the…
New York orthopedic surgeon Ira Kirshenbaum was sued 10 times for medical malpractice and 4 of his patients died after undergoing surgery with him. This hasn’t stop Bronx-Lebanon Hospital to keep him as the head of orthopedic surgery since 2008 and to pay him $1 million-a-year and additional bonuses since…
A doctor who prescribes opioids to a patient with a history of abuse, fails to closely follow up with a patient who exhibits addictive behavior or disregards family concerns or warnings from other professionals such as pharmacists or primary physicians could face medical malpractice and/or wrongful death litigation, criminal prosecution, and…