Following medical malpractice and legal news in New York
A doctor failed to explain the side-effects, including adverse effects fully which resulted in a possible claim for an LFW worker. ABS CBN reports:
A Filipina working as a caregiver in London died recently in what her family alleged was a case of medical malpractice.
ABS-CBN Europe News bureau chief Danny Buenafe reported Monday that based [...]
In an odd case of “medical malpractice” and harassmentNew York Newsday reports:
Richard Karpf was bullied as a child and kicked out of his apartment by roommates while attending a Mexican medical school.
Dennis White started having panic attacks when he was 6 and suffered from sleep disorders and depression as an adult.
Their lives crossed in 1996 [...]
New regulations suggest a dramatic increase in medical malpractice. PR Inside reports:
New federal guidelines issued Wednesday for doctors treating smokers could trigger a wave of wrongful death medical malpractice legal actions, suggests Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), which serves as the legal action arm of the antismoking community.
Indeed, says ASH, there are over [...]
Findlaw asks “What should I do if I think I have a medical malpractice claim?
A: You should talk to a lawyer who specializes in such cases, as soon as possible. Tell the attorney exactly what happened, from your first visit to the doctor or other health care provider, through your last contact with him [...]
Having a legal advisor to help you through the complex legal maze can be an important for legal and economic reasons.. Find Law asks:
How a Medical Malpractice Attorney Can Help
After any situation that could potentially involve medical malpractice, you should speak with an experienced Medical Malpractice attorney who will evaluate your case with you, [...]
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, [...]
This incident of medical malpractice as reported in the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe is quite egregious:
LOS ANGELES - Minutes after routine surgery for acute appendicitis in October 2003, Staff Sergeant Dean Witt, 25, was being moved to a recovery room at a northern California military hospital when he gasped and stopped breathing.
A [...]
According to Bloomberg and the Journal of the American Medical Association:
April 16 (Bloomberg) — Merck & Co. conducted its own studies on the pain pill Vioxx, then hired companies to ghostwrite reports for medical journals that appeared under the names of scientists who didn’t do the majority of the research, court records show.
In many cases, [...]
If you or a family member has been injured as the result of a medical error then you may be entitled to a medical malpractice claim. However, the law can be complex, because doctors have rights just as patients do. Therefore, it has to be proven that some form of negligence is involved. [...]