New York Daily News: Lawyer sued for not filing medical malpractice papers against urologist
In a case of legal malpractice in a medical malpractice case, John Marzulli of the New York Daily News reports that:
A Great Neck lawyer is being sued for failing to file court papers in time to sue a urologist who allegedly botched a penile implant procedure.
The suit, filed in Brooklyn Federal Court, accuses Ira Podlofsky, of the law firm Podlofsky, Hill, Orange & Modzelewski, of missing the deadline to file a medical malpractice action against the doctor.
Podlofsky and his firm “failed to commence a lawsuit and negligently allowed the statute of limitations to expire,” according to the complaint filed by Christopher Isabella, who is back to being impotent - and powerlessto recover damages from the doctor.
Isabella, a carpenter formerly of Maspeth, Queens, claims he suffered serious injuries in 2004 when the doctor who installed the penile prosthesis failed to remove a foreign device during the surgery.
“It was a bonehead mistake,” Isabella’s new lawyer Peter Gordon said about the doctor’s flub.
The lesson learned: when you hire a medical malpractice lawyer, hire a responsible lawyer.