New York Personal Injury Attorneys BlogA 21 year old woman died and her 22 year old friend was seriously injured in a bicycle accident in New York City. The two women were riding their bicycles on Hylan Blvd. in Great Kills yesterday afternoon around 4:30 pm when they were struck by a boat trailer that had slipped off the truck that was towing it. The two women were transported to the hospital. One of them died, the other one is expected to survive. The driver stayed at the scene of the accident. Allegedly the trailer hinge had been modified. The driver hasn’t been charged. Read more in the New York Daily News
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Unfortunately not every patient has a doctor in his family who can protect them from hospital negligence
Hospital medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in this country, behind heart disease and cancer.
In a recent article in the New York Times, a retired transplant surgeon explains how an unresponsive medical staff left him no other choice but to break into into the crash cart, a box on wheels containing equipment hospitals use to resuscitate patients and pull out two liters of saline solution which he ran into his daughter’s IV Line to prevent her from dying.
Unfortunately most patients and their families don’t have the medical knowledge and the means to make things different if the staff is negligent or a medical error is being committed. Here are the reactions of some of the readers to this article.
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New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer Jeffrey Bloom to speak at Mount Sinai Update: Breast Imaging Conference” to be held at The New York Academy of Medicine
Our Partner Jeffrey Bloom will be a speaker at the “Mount Sinai Update: Breast Imaging Conference” to be held at The New York Academy of Medicine on October 12, 2015 . Jeff will speak from 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM and his presentation will cover the plaintiff’s attorney’s perspective on breast imaging malpractice. After the presentation Jeff will also participate on a Medico-legal Issues Panel. To register click here.
At the completion of this course, the participants should be able to:
- Discuss the new ACR BI-RADS 5th Edition terminology for breast imaging findings on mammography, ultrasound and MRI.
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Failure to diagnose Borderline Personality Disorder can be Medical Malpractice that can have fatal consequences
In 2001, Pam Tusiani died as a result of Medical Malpractice in New York after she fatally reacted to Parnate, an antidepressant she had been prescribed by a treatment center that was providing medical care without a license. The young woman was suffering from borderline personality disorder, a disease often misdiagnosed.
Using the settlement from their malpractice suit, Pam’s parents started the Borderline Personality Disorder Resource Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital in 2003. Last July the Tusianis hosted some of New York’s top neuroscientists and psychiatrists at a day-long event to review the latest science on BPD and devise new avenues for research.
Read more in The Washington Post
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A pedestrian suffered personal injury after being struck by a van in the Flatiron district in Manhattan
A woman in her 50s was seriously injured after being struck by a van this morning. The accident happened at the intersection of 21st St. and fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The pedestrian was crossing the street when she was hit by a white van making a left turn. The driver of the van was in shock and stayed at the scene of the accident while the victim was transported to the hospital in critical condition. Read more in the New York Daily News.
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A 27-year-old bicyclist died in a hit-and-run accident on City Island
A 27 year old woman was killed in a bicycle accident on the City Island bridge in the Bronx, NYC. The police are looking for the driver of a 2015 White Hyundai who struck 27 year old Gabriella Aguilar and sped away, leaving her to die on the road. See video below
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Two people died this weekend in two separate New York motorcycle accidents
A 29 year old man and a 27 year old woman died in two separate motorcycle crashes early Saturday night in New York City. The first motorcycle accident occurred in Brooklyn around 1:15 AM. The driver of the motorcycle tried to pass a van by squeezing between the parked cars and the van on Parkside Avenue near Park Circle. He lost control of his motorcycle and died in the hospital a few hours after the crash.
The second accident happened 40 minutes later in the Bronx. A 27 year old woman who was riding as a passenger on a bike driven by a 30 year old man was ejected from it after the driver lost control of the vehicle on Commerce Avenue near Newbold Avenue. The woman died and the driver suffered a broken jaw. Having ridden motorcycles for over 50 years the lack of foresight never ceases to amaze me. We all know riding bikes carries a multitude of risks from other drivers. Why compound it by riding foolishly.
Read more in the New York Daily News
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A 62 year old man was seriously injured after being attacked by two pit bulls in the Bronx, NYC
Francesco Bove suffered critical personal injury after being attacked by two dogs last Friday in New York City. Bove was walking on Belmont Ave and 67th street in the Bronx when he walked by two pit bulls. The victim who also owned a pitbull thought that the two dogs wanted to be petted. Instead the two animals jumped on him viciously and bit him repeatedly. Bove almost died. He sustained multiple lacerations to his arms, legs and chest and had to undergo five hours of surgery. Read more in the NY Daily News
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Trial Advocacy: Attacking the Electronic Medical Record
In their Trial Advocacy column in the New York Law Journal, New York Personal Injury Attorneys Ben Rubinowitz and Evan Torgan write Today that a careful look at electronic medical records often reveals inaccuracies that not only adversely affect patient care, but also serves to undermine the integrity of the entire record. To the extent that the medical record contains false or inaccurate information, it is not enough for the trial lawyer prosecuting a medical malpractice case to expose a limited error. The goal should be to attack in such a way as to show that the entire record is untrustworthy.
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A 30 year old construction worker died after falling from scaffolding in Manhattan, the second hard hat killed this week on a New York City Construction Site
Another construction worker died in New York yesterday. 30 year old Juan Cerezo was doing facade work on a scaffold on the 14th floor when he fell and landed on the sidewalk shed. The fatal accident happened on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at 363 East 76th Street around 4:00 pm yesterday. It is not clear so far if the worker was wearing a safety harness at the time of the accident. Four complaints have been filed against the building’s renovation this year, two for the second-floor scaffolding breaking or not being up to code, according to city records. The man was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead (read more in DNA).
The boom in construction in New York City has led to a significant increase of workers and non workers being injured or being killed on or nearby construction sites. A few days ago a 30 year old hard hat died after he fell down an elevator shaft on a construction site in Midtown on the West side of Manhattan. (see previous blog).
So far this year 12 people died in construction accidents including non construction workers such as pedestrians struck by debris or tenants killed in gas explosions.
